What to bring to a brow consultation + photo Brief
Bring healed reference photos, a shortlist of shapes, and your questions. If you made a LikeU preview, also bring the PNG and the Brow Brief. The Brief is homework so the conversation starts from your face. It is not a procedure plan, not a pigment recipe, and not medical advice.
What the Brow Brief is
The Brief is a short sheet that travels with your preview PNG. It describes the shape and technique you picked, a placement map, and proportions relative to your photo. Your technician re-measures and pre-draws on your face. The sheet does not tell them how to do the procedure.
Proportions are ratios, not millimetres. A photo has no scale bar, so the Brief does not invent millimetre measurements. It also does not suggest a pigment brand or number. The colour line asks your artist to judge colour in person.
Sections you can expect
- A header that says the sheet is a preview and that healed results vary.
- Your chosen brow: the shape, Hair-stroke or Powder, and whether you were looking at the bold, medium, or soft PNG.
- A placement map on your original photo. Head, arch, and tail are marked, and the left and right sides are fitted separately.
- Proportions written as ratios: where the arch sits along the brow, how the tail compares with the head, and brow length compared with eye width. No millimetres.
- Left and right differences, when they are large enough to mention. Faces are not symmetrical.
- The shape in plain words: how full the head, body, and tail are, and whether the arch is flat, rounded, or angled.
- A colour note with no pigment brand or number. It asks your artist to judge colour in person.
- The technique you picked, plus a reminder that skin suitability is for the artist to judge.
- A second-choice line. A standard preview records the one shape you picked, so this line stays empty unless a second shape was saved.
- Questions worth asking at the consult.
- A disclaimer and a short privacy note. The sheet is not medical advice and not a guarantee.
A consultation checklist
- The preview PNG and the Brow Brief, on your phone or printed.
- Two or three photos of healed brows you like, with a note about the shape. Fresh Instagram photos are a weak reference.
- Your first shape and one backup, named from the ten: Natural, Soft Arch, Soft Angled, Rounded, Lifted Arch, Sharp Arch, High Arch, Straight, Soft Straight, Low Arch.
- Hair-stroke or Powder as a preference, with room for the artist to disagree.
- Questions: healed photos on skin like yours, whether they pre-draw and let you adjust, the touch-up policy, how they choose colour, and which technique they suggest for your skin.
- Anything the studio already asked for, such as an ID or a deposit. Studios differ. This list does not replace theirs.
Leave the appointment able to say no. A preview is a head start, not a reason to start a procedure the same day.
Common questions
What should I bring to a microblading consultation?
Healed reference photos, a shape shortlist, your questions, and, if you have them, a preview PNG and Brow Brief. Add whatever that studio asked you to bring.
What is a Brow Brief for the artist?
It is a one-page homework sheet: your chosen shape and technique, a placement map, relative proportions, and questions. It is not a procedure plan and it does not name a pigment.
Does the Brief include millimetre measurements or pigment codes?
No. Proportions are relative to your photo, because a photo has no scale bar. Pigment brand and number are your artist’s decision. We do not recommend either.
Not medical advice. The preview and the Brow Brief are homework for a consultation, not a procedure plan and not a picture of healed brows.