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.
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.
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.