# Eyebrowless--a good or bad new fad? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489 "2009-07-27T22:27:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/21 "2009-07-28T02:53:48Z")
I can’t be bothered to read the article, because, really, I hate the _New York Times_ for anything other than hard news. In any case, one of the first things I noticed about my wife when I met her was her eyebrows. Maybe that makes me weird, but I love her eyebrows and I hope she’s never tempted to get rid of them. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/22 "2009-07-28T03:54:39Z")
[Hot Chicks With No Eyebrows website.](http://www.hotchickswithnoeyebrows.blogspot.com/) See if your boner survives this. 🙂 [I am an eyebrow snob, though -](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Family/Photo72.jpg) one of the few upsides of being a natural brunette is the eyelashes and eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/23 "2009-07-28T04:02:10Z")
So… The fashion trend of the 2010’s that we laugh our asses off in the 2020’s? Just like bell bottoms and wide ties? We remove all body hair. Not just shaving our pubes and heads, but laser removal of all other body hair, and now, finally, removal of eyebrows? And then we cover it all with crappy tatoos? Will the 10’s be the Carny Decade? 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/24 "2009-07-28T04:25:57Z")
:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/25 "2009-07-28T04:36:59Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > :dubious: You look like you could use a hug. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/26 "2009-07-28T04:48:49Z")
How… odd. Really. I’m not a ridiculously vain person (I hope,) but a good percentage of the ten minutes I spend on makeup before work is dedicated to making my ridiculously blond eyebrows look naturally auburn, like my hair. Penciling and powdering in my eyebrow color subtracts at least ten years from my perceived age! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/27 "2009-07-28T05:09:35Z")
The women in the NYTimes article look ghoulish, and the women in that Hot Chicks with No Eyebrows website look like neanderthals. Thumbs down. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/28 "2009-07-28T05:24:09Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > The women in the NYTimes article look ghoulish, and the women in that Hot Chicks with No Eyebrows website look like neanderthals. > > Thumbs down. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/29 "2009-07-28T05:30:43Z")
Aww, poor **Hilarity**. If it makes you feel better, I can completely off-set his opinion. I looked through that Eyebrowless site too, and if it hadn’t been pointed out to me, I wouldn’t have realized those women didn’t have them. They looked fine to me. Except maybe for Rachel Weisz(? something like that), but chances are, you don’t have her forehead structure. I’m sure you look fine, especially since your “condition” is natural. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/30 "2009-07-28T05:45:50Z")
Yeah, I think naturally not having them is one thing. I never really noticed Whoopi Goldberg till someone pointed them out. Being darker haired and not having them, though, is bad. I really did look like shit without them. I never realized how nice mine were till they were gone. I got them waxed professionally but I never needed to fill them in–they were so defined, so…perfect. When I started tweezing them to the point where they were uber skinny, people wouldn’t notice but when I pointed it out, their opinion would be something like, “Yeah they’re okay…maybe a bit too skinny.” Even the stylist I went to before I started on my road to perdition said I shouldn’t get them too thin. Now I know why. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/31 "2009-07-28T08:36:35Z")
> [@supergoose](#): > > Aww, poor **Hilarity**. If it makes you feel better, I can completely off-set his opinion. I looked through that Eyebrowless site too, and if it hadn’t been pointed out to me, I wouldn’t have realized those women didn’t have them. They looked fine to me. Except maybe for Rachel Weisz(? something like that), but chances are, you don’t have her forehead structure. I’m sure you look fine, especially since your “condition” is natural. I think their “condition” was Photoshopped. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/32 "2009-07-28T09:37:00Z")
Oh crap. There was a girl sitting just across from me at a bar downtown with the full blown crazy chola Sharpie look. I understand the need to adopt the look of some gangbanger’s mol, but it was seriously freaking me out. Without the bleached blond locks with 1/2 inch roots and the circus integral sign eyebrows, she actually might have been attractive. I mentioned her to my buddy 9 months later and he knew exactly who I was talking about. Her painted on eyebrows made Spock look demure. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/33 "2009-07-28T10:14:10Z")
Man, trends have been good to me lately! First with the no chest hair thing, now with the no eyebrow thing! Well, OK, I do have exactly one chest hair, and I do have eyebrows, but they’re blond. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/34 "2009-07-28T10:15:34Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > So…does anyone here think this is a good idea? All right! My (naturally) pale, barely-visible eyebrows are fashionable now! ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/35 "2009-07-28T11:07:38Z")
One of my very best friends (I met her in 1980) is a lifelong eyebrow plucker cum brow pencil liner. When I say she plucks, I mean it. Every brow is gone and she draws over the bare skin with a pencil. I got used to the look when we became friends so it really didn’t faze me, but the first time I spent the night at her house I got a rude awakening. She went into the bathroom to take off her makeup before bed and when she walked out I was visibly startled. I might have shrieked. MY friend just laughed it off because her sister always had the same reaction. She really was a good sport, though, because she knew some folks found this trait odd. We would always make jokes about her “surprised” countenance. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/36 "2009-07-28T14:15:13Z")
Not extreme enough. There needs to be a fashion for removing the eyebrows and the hair on the forehead. Then we will all start wearing [awesome headdresses](http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/7863/medw3.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/37 "2009-07-28T14:27:06Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > 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. Even better than pencils (if you already have eyebrows and just want to define or fill them in a bit) is brow powder. I use that and an angled brush. I have fantastic shape to my brows (she says modestly), but the powder really finishes them off nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/38 "2009-07-28T16:03:40Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I think their “condition” was Photoshopped. Well, yeah–that’s why their condition isn’t natural. They naturally would have eyebrows, therefore they look really weird and freakish and alienish when someone photo shops their brows off. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/39 "2009-07-28T17:16:08Z")
Nooooooooo. I HATE the no-eyebrows AND penciled-in eyebrows looks. Give me full eyebrows, says I. Or full-_ish_, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489/40 "2009-07-28T18:51:53Z")
When my hair started to fall out from chemo, I lost my eyelashes but not my eyebrows (not completely). My chemo nurse said that when people lost their brows, that was when others started to mention that they looked ill. Your eyebrows show a lot of your emotions, and without them, your face tends to look like a blank. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyebrowless-a-good-or-bad-new-fad/504489.md?page=3)