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Rihanna's Skinny Brows....Come back?

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umpteennamechanges · 03/08/2018 19:26

Rihanna has tiny skinny brows on the latest Vogue cover...

Some people are predicting a revival of the skinny brow (perhaps not quite as skinny as Rihanna's) as to teens/those in their early 20's it will be a 'fresh new look' and not like reliving the 90s

Anyone wanting a skinny brow come back or do you think square brows and slugs will hold out? Grin

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GeorgeIII · 04/08/2018 17:42

I saw an excerpt for Prime Suspect 1973 and Stefanie Martini had THICK BROWS. Now you might have got away with thick brows if she had no make up on and a bad hairstyle, ie is au naturel, but if you have eyeliner and make up you would, in those days, have had arched fine brows.
Really annoys me when directors pander to modern values when trying to protray the past. Hope the director of Poldark is listening too, red haired women do not have dark brown brows ime.

lindyloo57 · 04/08/2018 18:02

i like the top picture best of Rihanna best.

mineisarossini · 05/08/2018 07:19

It makes her look like a clown. Awful.

mineisarossini · 05/08/2018 07:21

I don't know how they have managed to make such a beautiful woman look so bad.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 05/08/2018 07:23

I think Vogue has completely lost the plot.

dudsville · 05/08/2018 07:27

I have a friend with those skinny eyebrows. The result of overlying in the 90s. She also plucked too far away from the inner corners of her eye. She often says some fashions should come with warnings.

pennycarbonara · 05/08/2018 07:28

That just misunderstands the purpose of high fashion, which has never been the same as the stuff for everyday wear.

GeorgeIII · 05/08/2018 08:38

Like Marlene Dietrich, what goes around comes around.

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Coolcool · 05/08/2018 08:40

Surely thin eyebrows are due to come back. Heavy brows have been the fashion for years now.

Gruach · 05/08/2018 08:48

I miss Alexandra Schulman - maybe I've erased the memory but I'm sure Vogue wasn't quite so out of touch when she was editor.

Is that honestly, honestly how you feel?

(Is this honestly, honestly my first .)

GeorgeIII · 05/08/2018 08:54

The one who looks different stands out.
In the 1970s when everyone had skinny brows this was Margaux Hemingway, she looked stunning.

Rihanna's Skinny Brows....Come back?
megletthesecond · 05/08/2018 09:01

Thin brows are due a revival. Last time was 1993 during grunge.
FWIW I love Enninfuls Vogue. Life's too short for dull front covers.

IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 05/08/2018 09:09

Grauch, she had a more 'normal' figure and was a bit scruffy (compared to Anna Wintour, anyway) and I liked that in a fashion magazine editor.
Did you see the documentary about British Vogue - I liked her.
Anyway, this months edition has an arse kissy piece with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who seem like nice enough women, but are of no interest to me and are notoriously bad dressers.
Couldn't find anything I liked in there at all or that I was desperate to read.

Gruach · 05/08/2018 09:15

Surely you’d have to compare her figure to Edward Enninful’s? (Not sure what the benefit of that argument would be.)

Making an effort to be charitable I’ll assume you have completely missed all the discussion over the past few months on the change of regime at Vogue.

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IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 05/08/2018 09:49

Gruach, what has the change of regime got to do with anything? I'll admit I'm not someone who buys Vogue every month, but I just don't remember being this bored. Rihanna is everywhere - she's not that interesting and Enninful's whole tone is fawning. It's cringy. But probably I'm not 'fashiony' enough to read Vogue. I think all the clothes are ugly.

I do love the cover though - that is definitely not boring. And I do like the beauty sections and the photography generally.

Gruach · 05/08/2018 09:59

But IWannaSeeHowItEnds - you said you missed the former editor. That is what I was responding to.

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IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 05/08/2018 10:09

I just remember not feeling so bored - there were articles I wanted to read.
Do you think the articles are very brief - they seem to be a page of writing and that's it. I don't know - maybe it was always like that and I've forgotten.
I'm quite disillusioned with women's magazines generally - they seem so thin and lacking in substance.
I bought Vogue because it was nice and chunky and had a good cover, but when push comes to shove, I feel like there's nothing to actually read.

I do hope that skinny brows do not come back though - mine suit the fuller look. Don't want to go back to the 90's!

GeorgeIII · 05/08/2018 11:30

But despite the internet there seem to be as many or more mags as in the past? V surprising imv.

pennycarbonara · 05/08/2018 11:36

George Quite a few have gone, e.g. Glamour, In Style, Company.
Certainly not new ones springing up every few months as in the 90s. I don't keep up with them in the same way now, but you hear news of magazines stopping print editions at nearly the same rate as new ones used to appear

IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 05/08/2018 12:08

I still miss She, Easy Living (crap name though) and Eve.
Magazines used to be thick and glossy and a proper mix of fashion and real informative journalism. I remember first readong about women 's rights (or lack of) in something likr Marie Claire.
Now publishers are asking for more than £4 for a flimsy read, printed on thin, non glossy paper.
Vogue still looks good, which is how I get sucked in every so often.

BusterGonad · 05/08/2018 12:46

Grazia is a favorite with me, a bit of gossip (but not trashy Katie Price and Kerry Katona shite), good fashion, a couple of interesting columns and great beauty pages.
In regards to the eyebrows, I think they are ok, of course if thin ones come in fashion they won't literally be penciled in like the Vogue cover, as normal Joe Public generally as a watered down version of said fashion.

MrsMint · 05/08/2018 12:54

I have always kept thin brows even when the ridiculous slug brows were all the rage.
What some lip synching overrated American celebrity does with his/her brows makes no difference to my brow choice personally.

Gruach · 05/08/2018 13:05

Rihanna is Barbadian, not American. And probably has no intention of railroading innocent passers by into copying a magazine cover.

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