Here I go: Put those tweezers down right this second, young lady/man/person!

“Overplucking damages the follicle, sometimes beyond repair,” explains board-certified dermatologistMona Gohara, MD.

Barbie Ferreira at the 2021 Met Gala.

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Why did we mentally torture ourselves over something so seemingly meaningless as our eyebrows?

“Unlike a drastic haircut, over-plucked brows aren’t guaranteed to grow back.”

And that means they are making a comeback whether millennials such as myself like it or not.

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Barbie Ferreira at the 2021 Met Gala.

Considereyebrow standardsthroughout the past century: in the 1920s and 1930s, thin eyebrows were all the rage.

All beauty standards run in a cycle and the inherent nature of cycles is that they never end.

Balmain’s spring/summer 2022 runway show at Paris Fashion Week.

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Balmain’s spring/summer 2022 runway show at Paris Fashion Week.

I don’t mean to say that thin, neatly shaped eyebrows are inherently bad.

Trust me… entire generations have seen it happen with our own eyes.