Eyebrows

Well I wouldn’t!

I would!

I dislike the apparently vain quest for perfection, the self obsession, the fashion hype as well as the look (and often the execution): why not have ones ears cut off and have them drawn on perfectly too? It is. That. Ridiculous.

I’d hardly say microblade eyebrows, gel nails and Botox is over groomed .

That's exactly the kind of place I'd expect to find the over groomed. 😆

I guess not many rabbits or horses microblade but surely people who live in the countryside do.

It could mean she lives in a rural, remote area where it would be more unusual?

They're still better than those godamn awful skinny brows we had in the 90s/00s! Now they were truly horrendous!!

Mine never grew back properly 😭

Yours look nice @BMrs. Mine are ridiculous if I don't dye them dark brown, they are much lighter than my natural hair colour and lighten even more this time of year to make them almost invisible.
The fashion a few years ago where it looked as though girls had stuck false mustaches on their brown lines was hysterical.

@DiddyDiddykong Noooooo don't say that!!! 😫

I totally agree. I have rather rubbish brows and wanted to get them micro-bladed but was unable due to medication. I have to stop myself laughing out loud at some of the horrors I've seen. I have a folder with pictures of my favourite brows.

I think that at the moment the desired look is "false" and the more false the better. I saw a friend who had the most natural eyelash extensions, I assumed she'd just discovered an amazing mascara, a few years back. Roll on a couple of years and the girls all have these heavy looking, intense black, comical lashes that look totally weighed down and caked, and brows like pained on caterpillars - absolutely bonkers to this ol' gal. Give my a nicely shaped Lauren Bacall / Megan Fox brow any day.

It’s the one beauty tip I took away from all the primping and faffing for my wedding - had my fair eyebrows shaped and darkened (with an eyebrow pencil, nothing permanent just before the big day, I’m not crazy!)….it made such a difference - framed my face dontcherknow, amazing, still doing it now.

Can't come bloody soon enough, me being a victim of 80's overplucked thin brown line and all that. I've tried to grow them and suffered 8 weeks of looking like a twat, only to end up looking like a hedgehog with alopecia onset.

It's just fashion isn't it.

Like a pp said some of the looks from years gone by were not so great either. Shimmery blue eyeshadow for eg. Or pink eyeshadow which caused my mum to remark that I looked like I had conjunctivitis. 90s skinny brows didn't look good on anyone and it turns out the overplucking was more permanent than lip fillers, for some. Another one from the 90s is fat brows drastically thinning after the first couple of millimetres, like big commas. Awful. I've seen that recently too though, on youngsters.

Yes OP! A prime example of this was Natasha Hamilton from Atomic Kitten who was in the Mail Online yesterday. She is fair skinned, freckly with red hair and she now possesses the thickest, jet black eyebrows which looked positively wet. Just looks bizarre.

Sadly I got unrestricted access to tweezers when I was around 12 and the brows never grew back, no matter what serums/oils I tried. So I had to resort to microblading, but I only top it up every 2-3 years or so, not yearly as it is "officially" advised. Same with lip fillers - I had a tiny 0.5 injection 15 months ago, and it still holds, especially can be seen in hot weather/climate when the face gets a bit swollen - the fillers don't fill the lip by themselves, all they do is attract and hold WATER. And they don't dissolve in 6 months at all. But sadly 1) too many people are too insecure and top up the treatments too often 2) too many injections practitioners are too greedy and push their customers too much. That's how we and up with puffy trout pouts and brows entering the room before the gal.

I had my eyebrows micro bladed two years ago as my natural ones were different shapes and length. I think they look pretty natural but I have plenty of eyebrow hair too 🤷🏼‍♀️

The extreme, unnatural ones do look awful.
I’ve sometimes wondered that if you get the puffy lips done, they throw in the thick dark square eyebrows, comically long fake eyelashes and excessively long nails too, because you so often see someone with all of them.

Ha

I won't slate you, I fully agree. They also look like clones to me. What's wrong with simply enhancing your own natural looks with some well-applied make up, or not even bothering with that (though I do).

One of my dds simple "has" to have her nails done all the time and the other is now into ridiculously long fake eyelashes.

I think a lot of people benefit from enhancing their eyebrows, they really do frame the face. I tint mine at home and then pencil in the gappy bits at the front. Looks great and yes, natural. But there are undoubtedly a lot of horror brows about too.

Ok I'll bite..

You "don't live in an area that you'd expect people to have too much artificial work done either" 👀

I have microbladed eyebrows, gel nails.. and my GP next door neighbour does my Botox.

We live in a very nice area. Big detached 5 bedroom houses. I even have a Masters degree, I'm Chartered in my profession and my husband answers to Dr.

Unpick that.

But if they look very natural you won't notice them, so all the ones you do will be the unnatural ones?

I have mine microbladed (very fine strokes which look just like hairs) because I plucked them to death in the 90s and have a huge lopsided gap in the middle as well as very little left at the ends. It completely transformed my face, plus it saves me fifteen minutes faff with brow makeup products every day just to try and make them look normal (which was a pain when I don't like wearing makeup).

If you noticed mine as being 'unnatural' I would be amazed.