# Gaps in eyebrows - natural or self-inflicted. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 18, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687 "2002-12-18T23:32:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/21 "2002-12-20T02:42:32Z")
I have a small gap too. What is it from. I plucked out all the gray hairs… Maybe… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/22 "2002-12-20T06:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > But those who’ve had their brows cracked open and scar are just naturally cool. But of course! In my case, an unfortunate encounter with a T-ball bat, at around age 8. It left a line right down the middle of the eyebrow, the long way. But it doesn’t show much, behind glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/23 "2002-12-20T06:59:03Z")
By brother and my cousin have identical eyebrow “parts”. Right above the inside corner of their left eyes their eyebrow hair decides to switch directions, and you can see their skin. It’s pretty cool. Not _exactly_ what you were talking about, but pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/24 "2002-12-20T08:37:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voltaire \* > **People have said that this scar “looks good” and “adds character” but that’s until I tell them how I got it.** You should invent an impressive, heroic story about it. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/25 "2002-12-20T08:47:34Z")
Invent? Pshaw! These happenstances are too unique for mere invention! No, really. I used to be in a band In college, and I bashed my eyebrow open on the bass players headstock once. I still have the scar. ---
**Author:** ![andr\_line](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@andr\_line](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andr_line)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/26 "2020-05-14T22:21:45Z")
I’m probably a bit late to the party, but here goes… Urban dictionary has “eye slit” listed, this is probably what you’re talking about. [https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3Fterm=eyebrow%2Bslit&=true](https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=eyebrow%2bslit&=true) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/27 "2020-05-15T01:58:03Z")
Holly Marie Combs (Piper in _Charmed_) has that. She got it when learning to walk and fell and hit her head on a marble table. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/28 "2020-05-15T03:54:16Z")
Jason Momoa has one and it’s from a bar fight. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/29 "2020-05-15T04:27:23Z")
There is some actress from some (I think SF/action) series that has a gap in one eyebrow. I was thinking it was the woman on _Killjoys_, but photos show that it isn’t, and now I’m going to go crazy trying to remember who. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/30 "2020-05-15T05:15:58Z")
My older brother accidentally smacked me in the face with a snow shovel when I was too young to remember. So I’ve got one. Am I a poseur? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/31 "2020-05-15T06:10:25Z")
Children go around bashing their faces into shit all the time. Forehead injuries are pretty common. Get a laceration in the right place and hair won’t grow there again. This hardly seems like a major mystery. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/32 "2020-05-15T06:50:47Z")
I’ve had every kinda boo-boo a kid could’ve gotten. I thought. No eyebrow slit. Now I feel deprived. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/33 "2020-05-15T06:58:54Z")
I’m neither male nor a celebrity, but my eyebrow gap is Mom-inflicted. Mom never has learned to knock on doors, or to open them carefully when they’re ajar. And this one time she barged through as usual and there was a little child behind the door, and the little child ended up with a scar which would be invisible if it didn’t happen to be in the middle of an eyebrow. Toddlerhood accidents are an extremely common source of eyebrow and brow scars; the ones across the eyebrow happen to be a lot more visible for the same actual level of scarring, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![bowlweevils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@bowlweevils](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bowlweevils)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/34 "2020-05-17T05:33:09Z")
I too would like to join the club of people who have this due to childhood injury. I can’t even remember what stupid thing I did to get it, but I’m sure my mother can. I’ve generally assumed it’s a scar when I see it on other people unless it there’s some really obvious evidence that it’s a fashion choice. It’s pretty common. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687/35 "2020-05-17T13:54:03Z")
Heh. Mine’s from a fireplace cover that got blown off of the fireplace by a gust of wind while I was sleeping. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaps-in-eyebrows-natural-or-self-inflicted/143687.md?page=1)