From Marlene Dietrich’s slender-curved eyebrows to thick, and archless ones; reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn’s and much later overhauled by Brooke Shield’s idiosyncratic, bushy form. Eyebrows can certainly weather through the eeriest of times. Cyclical through nostalgic allure like that of the super-skinny 90s reiterated by the likes of Bella Hadid and Gabriette Bechtel.
Soaped, bleached, plucked, or perhaps even shaved off. Brows, or the very absence of them, are arguably one of this decade’s most coveted obsessions, with “skinny-brow veterans” making us forgo tweezing, albeit just for a hot second, or plucking them duly until there’s no trace left. Current and prospective brow trends are then examined through TikTok’s aptitude test, in which users satirically discern whether the pencil-thin brow filter makes them look like a version of Pamela Anderson or more like a scruffy “cigarette mom”. Frankly, we put so much emphasis on that part of our faces that it feels only right to prize it in appropriate ways. Not least because our brows are discerned with a framing function, one that sort of ties up everything.
