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Like many, Sarah Michelle Gellar has some regrets about her ’90s eyebrows.
To celebrate Merit’s new Brow 1990 pencil, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star looked back at the beauty experiments she regretted most, including her pencil-thin brows and one trend that left them “disintegrated.”
“Do you ever look back at your old pictures and think, What was I thinking? My biggest mistake from the ’90s that I think that everybody can agree with would be my sperm brows,” Gellar says in a new GRWM video shared exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter. “That’s right, I said it, my brows looked like sperm.”
While using the clean beauty brand’s new microfine sheer gel pencil and other eye and lip products, the actress revealed that while she was working on “this little television show I used to do called Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and they bleached my brows. I got home at the end of the day after the premiere, exhausted. I washed my face and not only were my brows barely there, they disintegrated.” (She’s specifically refers to this October 2000 Premiere magazine cover.)
Gellar also revealed the story about when she “finally figured out my brows. My hairdresser and my makeup artist were super late. My stylist, Deborah Waknin, said, ‘I can do your makeup!’ So I kind of created a natural look in the ’90s by accident.”
The actress also reviews the time when she tried to make the drapes match the carpet, the hair pouf that “you could have hidden an entire final” in and even her “poor husband” Freddie Prinze Jr.’s ’90s brows.
The moral of the story, she says? “Less is always more.”
The actress also used Merit’s Clean Lash lengthening mascara, the Solo Shadow matte eye color (applied with the Brush No. 2) and the Signature Lip lightweight lipstick. (Emma Stone, Kate Hudson and Allyson Felix are also fans of Merit’s brow products.)
In addition to the new sheer gel brow pencil, Merit also relaunched its Brow 1980 volumizing pomade with a new longer-lasting formula. The new campaign stars supermodel Kirsty Hume and coincides with the debut of Merit’s new Brow Duo bundle, which includes the Brow 1990 pencil and the Brow 1980 pomade for only $44 (regularly $48).
Watch the full video above, and see the Merit products that Gellar uses to get her natural beauty look below.
Merit Signature Lip Lightweight Lipstick
Merit Clean Lash Lengthening Mascara
