The best eyebrow tinting kits you can use at home

Over the last couple of years, many of us took beauty treatments into our own hands, trimming our fringes and dabbling with DIY manicures. And while we rushed back to the salon for haircuts and facials as soon as we could, eyebrow tinting is one beauty ritual that we’re more than happy to perform at home.

An eyebrow tint is one of the fastest ways to transform your face, making you look instantly polished. Luckily, at-home brow tinting kits deliver comparable results to an in-salon service, without the pricey treatment bill or the time spent in the salon chair. Plus it’s super-easy to tint your own brows, especially with our edit of the best home brow tinting kits.

How we chose our recommendations

Ever in search of the best home eyebrow tint kits, we scoured the Mumsnet forums for tried and tested brow buys that deliver impressive results, are easy to use and look as good as a professional brow tint.

We also kept a close eye on Amazon reviews, to make sure the ones our Mumsnetters recommended were also big hits on consumer sites. Plus, with a beauty editor in our midst who knows a thing or two about the best beauty buys, you can rest assured these eyebrow tints are every bit as high-performing as they claim to be.

Our edit of the best eyebrow tinting kits takes into consideration how easy they are to use, how long the brow tint lasts and how many applications you get per kit.

Read on for the best brow tinting kits to try now.

What is the best eyebrow tinting kit?

• Best overall brow tinting kit: Eylure Pro-Brow DyBrow

• Best budget brow tinting kit: Schwarzkopf Brow Tint

• Best professional eyebrow tinting kit: Strictly Professional Eyelash & Eyebrow Tint

• Best peel-off eyebrow tinting kit: Maybelline Tattoo Brow

• Best easy-to-use brow tinting kit: Refectocil Lash & Brow Colour

1. Best overall brow tinting kit: Eylure Pro-Brow DyBrow

Price: £6 | Buy now from LookFantastic 

"Ridiculously easy and took ten minutes.” Recommended by Filiboom

If you’re a false lash lover, you’ll likely be familiar with Eylure. They make the best lashes out there, and their eyebrow tinting kit is equally impressive. The budget-friendly buy came up time and time again on our forums as tried and tested by Mumsnetters, who praised it for how quick and easy it was to use, with impressive results.

This easy-to-use eyebrow tint takes around 10 minutes, and offers up to six weeks of colour - not bad for less than the price of lunch!

With this kit you mix the brow dye with the activation cream to create the formula, before brushing it on with the mascara style wand and leaving for 10 minutes. Wipe off with a damp cotton pad and voila, dark, defined brows.

Eylure recommends applying a barrier cream around your brows (Vaseline will do the trick) to stop the formula from dying your skin too. If you do get any of the dye on your skin, simply wipe off immediately. In the event you don’t notice that it’s on your skin, it will fade in three days or so.

Users with ultra-light blonde or grey hair praise this product for keeping their brows looking natural, though if you do want to go darker, just leave it on for 15 minutes for a more intense look.

2. Best budget brow tinting kit: Schwarzkopf Brow Tint

Price: £5 | Buy now from Amazon

This Schwarzkopf eyebrow tint is fantastic, and you only need half of what it recommends, so you can get 20 applications out of it!” - Recommended by Dailymailcanf***thef***off

While this isn’t the cheapest eyebrow tint in our edit, it wins the title of best budget brow tinting kit for the number of applications you can get from the tube. Reviewers say that for less than £5 you can get up to 20 uses, which makes it remarkably better value than an in-salon tint, which normally costs around £10 per appointment.

This comes in four shades, including blonde, light brown, dark brown and black. The fairest shade keeps brows looking ultra-natural, just slightly more defined. This is a good choice if you’re looking to dye grey brow hairs, fully covering them for a more youthful look.

Schwarzkopf’s brow tint also gets bonus points for how quickly it works, taking hold in just five minutes. Similarly to Eylure’s brow tinting kit, this has two formulas you mix together to activate, before brushing it through your brows with a mascara wand.

Reviewers with grey or white brows love this product for speeding up their morning routine. After use they no longer need to use a brow pencil to draw in their brows, yet they still achieve the youthful look you get from defined brows.

3. Best professional eyebrow tinting kit: Strictly Professional Eyelash & Eyebrow Tint

Price: £4.50 | Buy now from Amazon

“I use this Strictly Professional Eyelash & Eyebrow Tint Brown”. BelindaAllWorkedOut

Professional by name and professional in nature, users praise this affordable eyebrow tint for making their brows look fuller and more defined in just five minutes, with results lasting for up to a month.

To activate, you mix the dye and activating cream together, apply to the brows and then wait for five minutes for the dye to take hold. Users caution that this seems to work much quicker than other at-home brow tints, so we’d advise removing after five minutes and checking if the colour is right for you. If it’s not as dark as you’d like, reapply. Better to be safe than sorry!

Colour-wise, blonde users say the brown tint is a good natural shade for their brows after leaving on for five minutes.

4. Best peel-off eyebrow tinting kit: Maybelline Tattoo Brow

Price: £13 | Buy now from Boots

“Nicely defined and filled. I am truly amazed, was not expecting much.” TheFutureIsOurs

This peel-off eyebrow tinting kit is a bit different to the others in our edit. Rather than mixing the dye, you simply swipe this on straight from the tube, applying a thick layer to your brows. Leave it on for twenty minutes (or up to two hours for dramatic results), then peel off with your fingers. Some users say they even sleep with this on, but we recommend treading lightly the first few times until you know the colour you’re after.

This requires more precision than the formulas you brush on, so you need a steady hand with this eyebrow tint, though some reviewers say they side step the eyeliner styler brush this comes with and use a separate wand to brush it on, for more precision.

Peeling this off is pain-free, it feels a bit like peeling off PVA glue, just with more satisfying results.

One thing to note is this is a temporary fix. It tints the brows for about three days, as opposed to the month of colour offered by other brow tints in our edit.

5. Best easy-to-use brow tinting kit: Refectocil Lash & Brow Colour

Price: £7 | Buy now from SkinCity 

“It's super easy, I would never pay for a salon brow tint.” Recommended by Emsyj37

Redheads looking to enhance their brows should opt for this simple-to-use tint. It comes in a variety of shades, including red-brown chestnut, blue black and graphite.

To use, mix the tint with the activator to create a smooth paste that you apply to your brows for ten minutes for salon-style results that last up to six weeks.

The small tube has an impressive 30 applications inside, and while it looks a little dated, Mumsnetters well full of praise for this professional-quality brow tint. One forum user even said she opted for this brand because her beautician used it - if it’s good enough for the professionals… Another user said she favours this because it tints the brows quicker than Eylure, if speed is important for you.

Fans of Refectocil say they sometimes buy a few of the colours and mix them together to create a bespoke shade.

6. Best long-lasting eyebrow tint: Just For Men Beard Dye

Price: £6 | Buy now from Amazon

“I buy Just for Men beard dye. It’s excellent. Takes five minutes.” Recommended by Sexnotgender

Not technically a brow tint, but Mumsnet users are big fans of this beard dye as a brow tint, praising it for better longevity than traditional brow tints.

The staying power is likely down to the fact that it’s designed for coarse beard hair, rather than soft brows. It’s perfectly safe for use on brows, though the brush it comes with isn’t fit for purpose when it comes to brows, so make sure you have a brow brush you can use.

Given that a beard is much bigger than brows, you’ll get an impressive amount of uses from one box of this, and just like with brow tints, this comes with two formulas you mix together to activate. Leave on for five minutes and you’ll be left with dark, velvety-looking brows.

7. Best precise brow tinting kit: Mylee Brow and Lash Tint

Price: £15 | Buy now from LookFantastic

“I was impressed with the results”. Recommended by BigSigHall

Mylee is best known for at-home gel polish kits and their brow tinting kit offers similarly professional results, with all the kit you need for salon-worthy brow tint, including a brush, a mixing glass and a spoolie for tidying up any mess.

Myless is a salon-brand, so you can trust it to offer professional level results, plus it can be used on your lashes too if you want to darken them as well.

This formula needs to be mixed together, as with many of the others, though it only needs to be left on for five minutes, so it offers fast results. The brand notes that you can leave it on for 15 minutes for darker brows, but it won’t deepen any further after those 15 minutes.

Users say the results last around two weeks, so not the longest-lasting in our edit, but if you’re just beginning on your brow tinting journey, this is a good option thanks to all the kit it comes with.

8. Best eyebrow tinting kit for blondes: Colorsport 30-day Brow Tint

Price: £9 | Buy now from Boots

“Makes them look a bit thicker and darker.” Recommended by LottaPianos

If you’re fair haired and you want dark yet natural brows, this is the brow tinting kit to buy,

It promises 30 days of colour in just two minutes, making it among the fastest-working brow tints available, plus there are up to 15 applications per-box, meaning you’ll rarely need to repurchase.

Fans with very fair hair love this for lasting longer than others they’ve tried, though users looking for a dramatic brow-style said this isn’t dark enough for them.

It’s the standard mix-together process, with two formulas to blend to activate the dye.

9. Best vegan brown tint: Ardell Brow Tint

Price: £6 | Buy now from Amazon

Ardell’s brow-tinting kit stands out from the crowd as it’s a powder formula rather than a liquid. Once you mix it in with the activating liquid, it’s the same process as all other brow tints.

After application it takes ten minutes for the colour to develop, though if you’re after darker brows you can reapply for up to five minutes until you achieve your desired look.

Users say this lasts three to four days before you need to apply again, so this is another kit to add to your basket if you’re just getting to grips with brow tinting and want to see how it looks before committing to weeks worth of tint.

Which eyebrow tint is best?

After considering the longevity, ease of use and how long the process takes, Eylure’s brow tinting kit comes out top.

Eylure are experts when it comes to eyes, selling everything from dedicated lash glues, to lash tinting kits to lashes themselves, so the brand knows what they’re talking about when it comes to eye buys.

Eylure’s brow tinting kit is simple to use, with minimal packaging (a big tick in the sustainability box!), plus it lasts well and only takes 15 minutes. It comes with easy-to-follow instructions that even novices will be able to understand, plus the colour lasts up to six weeks, which makes it a fantastic price.

Can you tint eyebrows at home?

Yes! At-home eyebrow tinting is pain-free and safe, plus it’s a simple process once you’ve done it the first time.

Many Mumsnet users in our forums say they’d never go back to in-salon tinting after trying it at home. Home eyebrow tinting is quick and easy, plus the results last just as long as professional jobs, without the salon price tag.

One pro-tip to take heed of if you’re planning to tint your lashes at home is to apply Vaseline around your brows. This stops the dye from colouring any areas you don’t want stained with the colour.

Another tip from our forum users is to avoid making the formula too runny when you mix them together. “The thicker it is the more it stays in place,” explains ScatterOfLight. “Too liquidy and some will inevitably leak into your eyes and that stings a lot.”

ScatterOfLight is a fan of treading carefully to avoid brows becoming too dark, leaving the dye on for just a minute at a time, then removing to check the shade. This will mean your product is used up quicker, but it’s solid advice if you’re fretful of your brows being too dark.

How long do brow tints last?

Unlike lash tints, which tend to last the length of your lash cycle (which is around six weeks, but depends on the individual), brow tints tend to fade in around four weeks.

The longer you leave the brow tint on to develop, the deeper your colour will be, though most recommend 15 minutes maximum.

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