Coincidentally, a little before this article ran, I over tweezed mine. And by over tweezed, I mean annihilated. I looked like a hideous little baby alien. And it felt horrific, too (stuff was always getting in my eyes).
So…does anyone here think this is a good idea? Can you think of anyone it would look sexy on? All I can think of is that site for beautiful women with no eyebrows where they all look like brainwashed alien souls without the brows.
It’s a ‘trend’ like Gretchen Mol was a ‘breakout star.’ The mags will push and push but I don’t see anyone in the real world taking the bait. Penciled-in eyebrows can look cool… for an evening. Pair them with the wrong outfit and you’ve got yourself looking like a drag queen or member of an East LA girl gang. They’re not exactly flexible.
Well, I think I like the eyebrowless look better than the look wherein women annihilate their eyebrows and then draw them back in with an eyebrow pencil. Here’s an example.
I actually did have to draw mine back in but they looked really natural. I didn’t draw them in like one line but more like the way you’d color in something. If you got up pretty close you could see, but unless you really looked, they’d just look like normal brows.
But yeah. I never realized just how much character you got from your brows til mine were gone.
Eyebrows are quite useful for keeping nice, salty sweat out of your eyes when it’s hot or you are called upon to exert yourself physically. That’s probably why they’re a naturally selected-for feature.
An absence of eyebrows is also an astonishingly effective boner-killer. That’s probably why they’re a naturally selected-for feature.
I notice that this trend has shown up mere months after they started advertising those eyelash drops. Maybe the hipsters think their eyelashes will now be able to do double duty?
Several other Dopers who lost their eyebrows (due to fires and chemo, IIRC) said this very thing awhile back. No fun to be without eyebrows if you’re in a warm climate, I learned.
If this catches on, there’s gonna be a lot of embarrassing photos hidden away in drawers in the future. Like the lovely 8 x 10 of my beautiful daughter taken during the “learning to pluck my eyebrows” era.
They (the fashion world) just don’t know what to do to get attention any more, do they? I once read a story set in the future where women shaved their heads and wore a variety of wigs; the men (younger ones, anyway) had long, natural, beautiful hair.
Remove your eyebrows? Go ahead, you’ll look like a freak. But it’ll be all the rage…
Yes, the problem is not necessarily the fact that the eyebrows are penciled in, but that the person wielding the pencil chooses to draw something nature could never achieve.
I have always had to draw them on. Usually, I don’t. If I’m getting my picture taken I try particularly hard to remember, otherwise I will look weird in the picture. In real life I figure my personality will overcome my looking a bit weird so I don’t usually do it.
The made-up no-makeup-look thing to do, I have been told, is to spray some hair spray on a toothbrush (okay, she actually said eyebrow brush and then added that a toothbrush would do when my expression made it clear I do not have an eyebrow brush) and then brush my eyebrows. I do actually have eyebrows, but they’re blonde. Much, much blonder than my hair. (Life is not fair.)
When I do it, it’s the last thing I do before stepping away from the mirror, because I don’t want to see myself with the eyebrows drawn on. I will get too critical. I will think I look like Boy George. It’s scary.
Our family has almost no eyebrows. It’s just a little fluff. People I’ve known for a while will all of a sudden ask what happened to my eyebrows. Did you singe them off? I always have trouble with sweat in the eyes. So now I learn it would be less of a problem if I had some eyebrow hair. I personally wouldn’t shave off the eyebrows if I had some decent ones. I sure wouldn’t find it attractive, not that it’s something I’d freak out about for somebody I liked.
My wife is a light brunette/kinda reddish, not sure since she always dyes her hair. But she has wicked light blond eyebrows, to the extent that you can’t see them… and I always make fun of her for it.
The last time she dyed her hair she dyed her eyebrows too. It was kinda weird! But it looked good. Too bad they grew out so soon.
Anyways, seeing somebody with no eyebrows doesn’t even register with me, since I am used to it.
Is your wife aware that they make eyebrow pencils in all kinds of hair colors, including dark blonde, light brown, auburn, etc. It really helps- eyebrows are like a frame for the rest of the face, and having good ones really works wonders.
ETA: Not that your wife needs help- I’m sure she’s lovely.
