THE INDISPENSABLE EYEBROW

Eyebrows do have a purpose besides defining the face.  They keep sweat and rain out of one’s eyes and are great for verbal communication.  Over the years cosmetic methods have been developed to alter the look of one’s eyebrows.  However you treat them it would be difficult to do without eyebrows.  Some observations: some scientific, some firsthand.

Eyebrows can convey emotions like surprise, joy, anger and sorrow.  Difficult to keep your emotions in check; eyebrows will give you away every time.

However, you can Botox your forehead.  Smooths out lines and the eyebrows don’t move.  I don’t recommend that, though. 

Eyebrows do help to keep moisture out of your eyes.  Visualize mowing the lawn on a hot day with sweat dripping in your eyes.  Says a lot for bushy eyebrows!

As a bleached blonde back in the 80s my darker eyebrows didn’t match my hair.  How to bleach one’s eyebrows back then?  I didn’t attempt that.

Eyebrows thicken at puberty.  

Unibrows have been favored by cultures through history.   In Roman times the men favored unibrows.

In ancient Egypt when a cat died in a private home all inhabitants of the house shaved their eyebrows.

Elizabeth Ist plucked her eyebrows and hairline to non-existence.  It was the fashion and high foreheads were greatly prized.

17th century society women wore mousehide brow wigs.  And in the 1920s movie actresses favored mouse fur to enhance their eyelashes.

In the past 100 years there’s been a great variation between thin and thicker eyebrows.

Dark, skinny eyebrows were big in the 1920s and Madonna epitomized the bushy eyebrow look in the 1980s.

A word to the wise, though.  If you continuously pluck your eyebrows they don’t grow back!  If you “want to re-route your eyebrows” (a male’s words)  proceed cautiously!

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Joan