I now picture you in some reverse 1940s film, saying to the previously plain secretary/librarian character with unspectacled eyes “Put your glasses on, Miss Brown .Now, you are beautiful” 😀
Billy
It seems to me that people plucking out their eyebrows at the roots are probably already experiencing the Dantean torments of hell. in miniature (From a position of ignorance. I tried to pull a hair out by the roots on an experimental basis. I didn’t manage it and it really did hurt like the proverbial hell. Maybe, it hurts less over time. Or I am just a wuss. Or both.)
I have to admit that a unibrow is a special case, though.
Alun
You must be right with the idea of it being a “youth” thing.
I was captivated by your suggestion that men may just be better at achieving a natural look. I am now covertly staring at men’s eyebrows for evidence of really expert eyebrow grooming. Still, if it was really good, I wouldn’t know.
Stewart
I’m with you there. (X-factor self-delusion, etc) The “angry wasp” is a great image. I think I’ll try to categorise novelty eyebrow styles.) ]]>
My wife keeps offering to make my eyebrow into two. I prefer the cro-magnon look (plus I can’t stand to have hairs pulled out of my skin (it hurts!)). My son, daughter and wife all ‘correct’ that center section. Four people, seven eyebrows.
As to why people do it? I have no idea.
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Perhaps they suffer from a kind of blindness, in the same way that some X-Factor contestants are incapable of hearing that they can’t sing, these eyebrow abusers must look at themselves in the mirror and think “nice”.
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Of course, the above is rather stereotypical, but I’ve found it to be more accurate than not (and I live in a town with a very large tourist population at any one time).
Personally (not that I usually have a ‘type’) I do find myself more (relatively speaking) attracted to those with a well-shaped eyebrow, especially when accompanied by a nice pair of black rimmed spex.
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