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To hate the current trend for huge, unnatural slug like eyebrows?

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MarmaladeSoup · 05/05/2017 09:21

I should say I colour in my eyebrows because they are really fair and if I don't it looks like I don't have any brows at all, but I'm always careful to use a natural colour. What I really hate is this fad for these awful, huge, dark, slug like eyebrows that make the wearer look like an angry bird.

Who on earth thought that it was a good look? The person who who came up with it should be shot. I think it's one of those fashion crazes that in years to come we will look back on cringe at, and think 'what the hell were people thinking'?

Surely these women who paint these hideous monstrosities on their faces don't honestly think it looks good?

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CheeseQueen · 05/05/2017 10:04

I think they look absolutely ridiculous. Not a good look on anybody.

OhJustPassTheCake · 05/05/2017 10:06

These are the latest in eyebrows - feather brows! Slugs are so last season!

To hate the current trend for huge, unnatural slug like eyebrows?

LightYears · 05/05/2017 10:08

eyebrows with a parting.

NotJanine · 05/05/2017 10:14

I've yet to see someone who looks good with these eyebrows. I had a suggested page come up on FB for eyebrow tattooing and the accompanying photo was awful; it looked like they'd been drawn on with a marker pen. I couldn't believe that there were so many comments from women wanting it done.

TheDowagerCuntess · 05/05/2017 10:19

They look utterly ridiculous - teenagers I can understand, but grown women go about with them.

However, ridiculous looks is part of life. I was a young teenager in the 80s, so my God, there were more 'what was I thinking?!' looks than you can shake a stick at. Even my completely untouched look was pretty WTF...

LadyRoseate · 05/05/2017 10:20

My problem is I can't stop staring at them. In the bank yesterday the woman had eyebrows that looked literally like she had drawn two large slugs and coloured them in with a dark brown sharpie. After I while I realised I was trying to talk to her but looking right at her bonkers eyebrows.

Even worse is DS's teacher who has a version of this, except the colour is too pale for her so they look even worse, and they are seriously wonky. They are always just as wonky so it's not just that she had a rushed morning... I'm worried they might be tattooed on or something.

I cannot have a conversation with the poor woman without my gaze constantly flicking up to the wonky bright brown slugs and boggling at them.

seafoodeatit · 05/05/2017 10:22

I remember when very thin, barely there brows were in fashion too. I don't get it either, I'm pretty sure I started a similar thread months ago. I don't understand most fashion things though, I'm waiting for normal eyebrows to be considered fashionable!

Roussette · 05/05/2017 10:25

I've always loved thicker eyebrows (thinking Isabella Rossalini, she had thick eyebrows when they were really not fashionable.) And one of my DDs has the most fab thick eyebrows.

However, this black sharpie look which is all over the telly is awful. I hate the way they bluntly end usually in the wrong place. So many slebs get it very very wrong.

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 05/05/2017 10:25

I stared yesterday.

I didn't want to stare, but I could not draw my eyes away from them.

carbuncleonapigsposterior · 05/05/2017 10:26

Not great when overdone, a skillfully enhanced arched brow can look good. There have been worse times for eyebrows, over plucked to the point of non existence and replaced with a pencil line, sometimes wonky. Not a good look!

Jackiebrambles · 05/05/2017 10:31

Yes I think they look dreadful too. Just utterly nuts!

But then I assume it's because i'm just not really 'on trend' and down with the kids these days (i'm 40).

bibbitybobbityyhat · 05/05/2017 10:32

Yanbu!

I just couldn't concentrate on what DS Arnott's ex girlfriend was saying in Line of Duty, so transfixed was I by her eyebrows. They appeared to have been drawn on to not quite meet in the middle on purpose! She might as well have had a silly moustache drawn on.

soeasybreezy · 05/05/2017 10:33

I've seen some that looks tattooed on, isn't that the micro-blading fad. Done right, I suppose looks natural but the ones I've seen on a few mums at school looks rather heavy handed. Not my style but to each their own. I was guilty party of over plucking in my late teen ...

isupposeitsverynice · 05/05/2017 10:34

Those parted ones are awful. Someone on Reddit said they reminded her of fannies and now that's all I can see when I look at them.

EtonMessi · 05/05/2017 10:35

She might as well have had a silly moustache drawn on.

That's how I feel about a lot of them!

Oblomov17 · 05/05/2017 10:37

They ALL look awful. I haven't seen a good pair yet.

Oblomov17 · 05/05/2017 10:38

And I like a good nice thick dark pair. If that's what you've got, great. But this fashion, now, is vile.

Lweji · 05/05/2017 10:41

eyebrows with a parting.

I should try those.

Who am I kidding? I don't do my eyebrows (only very rarely), so I'm always unfashionable whatever the trend. Can't be arsed, really.

reallyanotherone · 05/05/2017 10:41

I don't even like the "yes" picture, rousette. They look like they've been to the hairdresser for a trim. Why cut your eyebrows?

What's with "a brow" singular anyway?

Goldfishjane · 05/05/2017 10:45

I don't see them often either and when I do I'm really taken aback. I only knew about them because of MN. I honestly might have thought it was for a bet if I hadn't had advance warning!

FurryLittleTwerp · 05/05/2017 10:47

They can look absolutely great - I was next to a young Indian woman at a meeting yesterday, & couldn't stop looking at her brows, because they were GORGEOUS - she had exactly the right balance of "filling", they were beautifully shaped, & because her brows & hair were naturally black, they weren't a silly colour for her.

Agree though they often look ridiculous, & often come too close together in the middle.

I'm in my early 50s & mine are now a bit moth-eaten, with the odd grey one , so I do fill them in, but SUBTLY with a charcoal-grey pencil - I look across the room at the mirror & if they jump off my face, I wipe some off

Foureyesarebetterthantwo · 05/05/2017 10:48

There's someone at work who has these and they are drawn on wrongly, too close together so they practically meet (but not in a cool monobrow way). I find it mesmerising, and keep wondering if it was an accident or deliberate! Lovely girl and so pretty, it's an odd thing to do!

Goldfishjane · 05/05/2017 10:50

Furry, but were they done or just her brows? I'm of Indian origin and even more careful about eyebrow plucking now because I don't want anyone thinking I have the sharpie look!!

nInachu · 05/05/2017 10:51

Ive never seen them done nicely...

See them quite often in London, also have noticed friends start to do it, and I just think 'no'....................

PaintingOwls · 05/05/2017 10:51

I first saw it in Liverpool on a tv show, I blame them.

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