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Enormous black eyebrows. Is this a thing??

65 replies

KeemaNaanAndCurryOn · 02/08/2014 12:35

Two pretty women in the cafe. Blonde hair, petite faces and the most enormous black, and obviously drawn on, eyebrows I've seen.

Is this a thing?

I feel a bit bad even commenting, really, as I'm usually very 'wear what you want, look how you want', but they're stunning and noteworthy.

Why? Just why?

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WallyBantersJunkBox · 02/08/2014 13:39

I think it's less Kahlo and more Towie tbh.

Saw lots of girls with stenciled black brows wondering around Bluewater last weekend, and was offered a free trial of "Chelsea Brows" from a stand. They had different eyebrow shaped stencils - one being "dramatic" AKA two Groucho mustaches.

But when you look back at pics of Liz Taylor she used to wear her eyebrows in a similar fashion and looked gorgeous. I think dark hair sets them off well though.

Sheldonswhiteboard · 02/08/2014 13:43

Hurrah my eyebrows are finally in fashion.

GiveTwoSheets · 02/08/2014 13:52

It's a fashion I don't understand bit like when the pluck them all out and draw them on was a thing. I do have to tell myself over and over 'don't stare at the eyebrows'

I'm all for the natural eyebrows I wouldn't even notice if someone had monobrow

RonaldMcDonald · 02/08/2014 13:54

I think it looks a little Cleopatra although I am unsure that that is their aim

I remember some of the horrors of my youth....

MarshaBrady · 02/08/2014 14:01

That phase where people plucked to an inch of the eyebrow's life wasn't much better. Little arrows. Around the '90s

dottytablecloth · 02/08/2014 14:02

"I love your enormous, thick, drawn on black eyebrows" said no one ever!

tethersend · 02/08/2014 14:07

All the stars have them.

Enormous black eyebrows.  Is this a thing??
wafflyversatile · 02/08/2014 14:11

It's all about degrees. Some people will always go extreme, some not so much. I like the subtler end of this.

dotty - except some people are saying that. Young people. Same as some of the young people of the time said 'I love your overplucked teeny eyebrows'

IfNotNowThenWhen · 02/08/2014 15:58

I plucked mine to death. They wont grow back Sad

IfNotNowThenWhen · 02/08/2014 15:59

I do them with a crayon thing now Grin

EugeneKrabs · 02/08/2014 16:01

The Robbie Rotten / HD brow is not a look I embrace.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 02/08/2014 16:06

Oooh I was at Bluewater yesterday - didn't get a Chelsea Brow offer but I did get an offer of mink eyelashes Grin

Mink .

OsloGin · 02/08/2014 18:30

I have also tried to grow mine back. Only the left one is cooperating so I look wonky.

summerberries · 02/08/2014 19:48

'Naturally thick brows are fine but unnatural drawn on ones look imo hiddeous and laughable. It looks like panto.'

Exactly this ^

AlleyCat11 · 03/08/2014 01:52

'tis true that it's impossible to avert one's stare when in conversation with a pair of HD brows. They're absolutely transfixing.

MorphineDreams · 03/08/2014 01:56

Oh I'm worried about mine now. I used a powder to fill mine in. Please tell me the truth, are they really bad? I'm black haired if that makes a difference.

Enormous black eyebrows.  Is this a thing??
wafflyversatile · 03/08/2014 02:02

They look fabulous!

Well defined. It's a strong look. Smile

GilbertBlytheWouldGetIt · 03/08/2014 02:07

Mink eyelashes! How much?

MorphineDreams · 03/08/2014 02:12

Thankyou waffly I'm just a bit paranoid now because of this thread ha

flowerbombVR · 03/08/2014 02:31

What about eyebrows tattooed on !
Friends dd got this done Shock Smile
For her sake I hope the 'scouse brow' does not go out fo fashion for another 50 yrs.
I think I should comment on a previous post 'When did you realise you were grown up' ...... I just felt it Smile

Maybe i'll just get an eyebrow pencil Wink

flowerbombVR · 03/08/2014 02:33

morphine - your eyebrows are lovely Smile imo

WitchWay · 03/08/2014 07:52

Round here they go for dark brown brows rather than black, but they put them much too close together with only half an inch between - looks like they are frowning & grumpy Grin

PittTheYounger · 03/08/2014 07:58

Morphine. Yours too dark

IndiansInTheLobby · 03/08/2014 08:13

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GiniCooper · 03/08/2014 09:28

It's reaching epic proportions though, that's the problem.
Well defined brow= good look.
Obvious massive penciled in brow= Groucho look.

My younger cousin is a lovely pretty girl, 27ish.
Lots of FB photos out with friends, all lovely. I've noticed her hair is getting lighter as her brows are getting darker. The brows are taking over her face. Why? Why?