I've found that a soft, sharp pencil is necessary and use light feathery strokes - build up, rather than draw. Except for the one time my husband laughed (and that was due to the wrong pencil and bad lighting), I have managed okay so far but it's getting much harder now to find the line. I have had lots of comments that my eyebrows look good and surprise that they're not real but of course, people could just be saying that. And it's not something that I have done before - I'm of an era of no eyebrow pencils!