Narve­ly Labastide is a 31-year-old beau­ty ex­pert born in San­gre Grande. Very soon af­ter com­plet­ing high school, Narv­ley found her­self in the world of cos­me­tol­ogy. “Once I re­alised how ea­ger I was to stim­u­late my cre­ative side, I dis­cov­ered my in­ter­est in Make­up Artistry.” Hav­ing trained at the Ephraim Hunte In­ter­na­tion­al Make­up Acad­e­my in Jan­u­ary 2010, she re­ceived a sol­id foun­da­tion that quick­ly built a net­work of peers and de­vel­oped an ex­clu­sive clien­tele. From ear­ly in her ca­reer, the nick­name ‘The Brow Queen’ was adopt­ed af­ter her peers coined it sim­ply be­cause she al­ways had a sig­na­ture style of sculpt­ing and fill­ing them in when she did make­up. That nick­name stuck and nine years lat­er has de­vel­oped in­to an en­ti­ty of its own.

Through­out the years, en­hanc­ing and nur­tur­ing her craft has been an in­te­gral part of her de­vel­op­ment. She had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to train with some of the world’s best ed­u­ca­tors in Make­up and Per­ma­nent Cos­met­ics in New York and Los An­ge­les. Narve­ly’s bub­bly per­son­al­i­ty, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and pas­sion for brows, bridal and beau­ty, has made her one of the more sought-af­ter make­up artists in the coun­try.

1. What is the one thing for which your clients can re­al­ly count on you?

My clients can re­al­ly count on me for con­sis­ten­cy in the qual­i­ty of my ser­vice.

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2. Tell us about the three best achieve­ment/mile­stones in your life or pro­fes­sion.

One would def­i­nite­ly be as­sist­ing my men­tor and now very dear friend, celebri­ty Make­up artist Moni­fa Mor­tis at her 5-star make­up work­shop in New York City. An­oth­er would be be­ing part of the cre­ative team and ex­e­cut­ing some of my favourite make­up looks for The Lost Tribe from its in­cep­tion. Last­ly, would be my weight-loss jour­ney which is still a work in progress but has so far been tremen­dous­ly ful­fill­ing in im­prov­ing the qual­i­ty of my life and well-be­ing.

3. Tell about your newest lux­u­ry brow ser­vice, the Om­bré brow?

It has been al­most three years since I first ven­tured in­to the world of per­ma­nent cos­met­ics by learn­ing the art of Mi­crob­lad­ing but re­cent­ly, I have added a cou­ple of new lux­u­ry ser­vices to my re­sumé, one of them be­ing Om­bré Brow Shad­ing. This tech­nique is done with a ma­chine to cre­ate the il­lu­sion of depth and de­f­i­n­i­tion in the brow by de­posit­ing the pig­ment in a gra­di­ent of very soft and nat­ur­al look­ing pix­els. When it is healed it looks as if the brows are per­ma­nent­ly filled in with pow­der. The brow’s shape is al­so cus­tomised to suit each client. I have been ob­sess­ing with this tech­nique for a while now, main­ly be­cause it is suit­able for most skin types and once skin con­di­tions are ide­al, it can be com­bined with Mi­crob­lad­ing to cre­ate the most un­be­liev­ably beau­ti­ful, nat­ur­al-look­ing brows.

4. What can clients ex­pect dur­ing the Om­bré brow pro­ce­dure?

The tech­nique takes two and a half hours to three hours to com­plete from start to fin­ish. While every­one’s pain thresh­old is dif­fer­ent, it’s safe for me to say this is al­so not painful for the client. Re­gard­less, I use anaes­thet­ic through­out the pro­ce­dure so that it’s less un­pleas­ant to the client.

4. How do you stay abreast of the lat­est beau­ty trends?

I try not to get caught up with every new beau­ty trend out there main­ly be­cause it is just that, a trend. Thriv­ing for time­less brows, bridal and beau­ti­ful make­up has al­ways been my go-to aes­thet­ic.

5. What tips can you of­fer us where the eye­brows are con­cerned?

A mag­ni­fy­ing mir­ror and tweez­ers are a dan­ger­ous com­bo. Do not over-tweeze your brows.

Go to a pro­fes­sion­al to have your brows groomed.

Do not be afraid to ex­plore the op­tion of per­ma­nent cos­met­ics, wak­ing up to a per­fect­ly sculpt­ed brow every morn­ing is LIFE and please do your re­search to find a qual­i­fied and cred­i­ble brow tech­ni­cian.