Lordy! What's with the comedy eyebrows on the under 30s?

[WavingLeaves]

Okay, I don't get out that much. But went to a 'do' the other night and had a good gawk at the general fake-iness of the under 30s look.

The eyebrows though, they really are something else, I was transfixed. Brown crayoning gorn mad Why do they do it?

Toysoldiers no more to be said.

I'm yet to see any of these in RL but have been amused by their appearance in magazines lately.

They do not look good!

Sheesh. I love being old.

HD brows are stencilled.

They used to use stick-on eyebrows made of real moleskin in the 18th century.

Do you reckon this is a marketing opportunity?

I saw them in RL recently for the first time, "comedy brows" is a very good description

Young people these days [old gimmer]

Come to think of it, it was mouse skin.

Scouse brows

BLOODY HELL

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=groucho+marx&hl=en&sa=X&biw=946&bih=443&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=J22oE_RZaLsSnM:&imgrefurl=bonniegoldberg.blogspot.com/2012/05/groucho-marx-king-of-comedy.html&docid=m5M1Yy2KGI6a9M&imgurl=3.bp.blogspot.com/-MMqMXK7J5uM/T71TohjxUGI/AAAAAAAAAR4/SMKSvDjW1J0/s1600/44464_Groucho%25252520Marx.jpg&w=400&h=488&ei=TUL9T6X5OeOi0QWPzvHEDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=159&vpy=75&dur=1343&hovh=248&hovw=203&tx=122&ty=124&sig=103784971252902098152&page=1&tbnh=96&tbnw=77&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:116" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aaah - PROPER comedy eyebrows

One of my neices is a bit of a fashion victim. Last time I saw her she looked like someone had got a brown crayon and drawn two elongated triangles above her eyes. Actually, someone had got a brown crayon and drawn two elongated triangles - she had.

Oh well, I'm sure I looked dreadful in some of the 80s fashions I thought were the business at the time. On the plus side, we didn't have digital cameras in those days so it was easier to hide the evidence.

Eyebrow stencils have been around for years, I got my first lot at 14. I'm 53 now. I don't use them anymore, years of practice and I can pencil in my eyebrows without thought. However, I have alopecia, so very little eyebrow, and I don't go mad with the pencil.

Someone should warn nevaeh that they look gnikcuf diputs

What ?

Oh dear - have you poked yourself in the eye trying out the comedy brows and now can't see to type. I do the same with my mascara wand.

Ooh - I see - now I get it. I must be diputs.

When I see those HD brows, I just see <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=thunderbirds&hl=en&client=safari&sa=X&rls=en&biw=1106&bih=641&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnsa&tbnid=B35Ey0gW38_VbM:&imgrefurl=www.moviestore.com/Photos/T106540_C82753.html&docid=JmAh0OCTVASyJM&imgurl=www.moviestore.com/library/photos/282/282753.jpg&w=304&h=380&ei=CEr9T4fSFc2g8gPf1filBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=866&vpy=63&dur=671&hovh=251&hovw=201&tx=166&ty=151&sig=103996702356981578874&page=3&tbnh=144&tbnw=124&start=38&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:38,i:275" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this

God, he was sexy.

Yes it's the Scouse brow and it is possibly the most ridiculous thing ever. I am sure it started as a joke on Desperate Scousewives, well that's the first place I saw it anyway.

Oh, I didn't know that was the fashion. One of the mums at school had eyebrows like this and I really struggled to take my eyes off them when I talked to her as they looked so OTT!!!

Oh dear... It seems I am a victim of the scouse brow. I now fear that all of the brow related compliments I have received were not sincere

It looks wierd! I don't mind big eyebrows like Audrey Hepburn

www.google.co.uk/search?q=audrey+hepburn&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=q0z9T4yPBYSA8gOq8MTIBw&ved=0CDUQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=672#biv=i|18;d|ioIVOE9nSV6YgM:

but Scouse Brows are awful IMHO!

"Just put some lippy on and read a book". !!!

Thing is, it's a look that starts off at around 15 in my neck of the woods. I see pretty young school girls, walking into school with over beached hair piled atop their heads; they're a ghastly orange colour and way too too much slap on.

Dont get me wrong, i need all the cosmetic help i can lay my hands on but I was in my twenties before I realised I could wear makeup and look very very different and (whether I wanted it or not) get a lot of attention.

The brows are crazy.... All Nefertiti-esque. Which looked great in Ancient Egypt but not in a small Cheshire market town at 0820 on a pissed wet through morning

One thing I do like about bewilderingly unflattering eyebrow fashion is that it gives a depressing nice historical insight into how my own mother/grandmother must have felt about that equally gorgeous MAC Spice lipliner/paler lips trend, and 'sculpted' 80s blusher...

ha yes, and the 80s gelled hedgehog look.

I remember my sister going through the 80's navy mascara and eyeliner phase - looked good with her big old bouffy perm

I'm always getting complimented on my eyebrows. They are Sofia Loren like. I don't pluck them, it's just how they grow.