{"id":45685,"date":"2011-03-04T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=45685"},"modified":"2017-03-04T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:34:49","slug":"the-eyebrow-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-eyebrow-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eyebrow Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joan Crawford<\/center><\/p><\/div>\n

Last night I did something on a whim that I\u2019ve never done before.\u00a0 I shaved my eyebrows off.\u00a0 Completely.\u00a0 I figured they\u2019ll grow back in a couple of weeks.\u00a0 It makes it easier to draw them on while I am experimenting with finding a light enough brow color to wear.\u00a0 My brows are getting more sparse as time goes on, and I\u2019ve been wearing brow color at times to define them.\u00a0 Even using the lightest shades, I end up looking like Joan Crawford because my natural brows are so high and wide. \u00a0\u00a0In the 90\u2032s, a hairdresser friend wanted to wax my brows, so I let her.\u00a0 I figured they would grow back.\u00a0 Well, they really didn\u2019t.\u00a0 The good news is I only have to tweeze about 6 stray hairs every few months.\u00a0 The bad news is that she waxed so much underneath the brows that they have ever after been the thinner brow that I don\u2019t care for.\u00a0\u00a0 But I\u2019ve gotten used to it and it\u2019s no big deal. By age 55 they began coming in again. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I watched a few YouTube videos showing how to create a nice eyebrow.\u00a0 When I fill them in freehand following the natural curve, they don\u2019t match and it\u2019s noticeable since I wear my hair off my face.\u00a0 I bought a set of eyebrow stencils and for the first time ever I had matching brows. It was kind of neat, but the color was too heavy for beige me. Plus, matching eyebrows is weird. Eyebrows should be sisters but not twins.<\/p>\n

I tried a few lighter colors and finally gave up.\u00a0 I needed to see the eyebrows from a new perspective.\u00a0 Hence the decision to shave them off.\u00a0 But apparently, even with my eyebrows gone, my eyebrow muscles give the appearance of brows so there didn\u2019t seem to be much change in my appearance.\u00a0 My face is very animated as I talk and I raise my eyebrows a lot.\u00a0 Being right handed I apparently raise the right more often than the left, hence the brows not matching if I follow my natural curvature.<\/p>\n

Being shaved off made it a lot easier to draw them on and get them even, without having to deal with my own brows being in the way of the art.\u00a0 When I looked at my face as a blank canvas, it became clear what I should do.\u00a0 So now I\u2019ll find a shape that fits them best and then as they begin to grow back, I will reshape them with tweezers as needed.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t see myself drawing brows on for the rest of my life.\u00a0 I grew up watching my mom do that. She had nice heavy brows but would pluck the ends out as a nervous habit<\/a> and so she always had to paint the ends on.\u00a0 She had dark hair and olive skin, so you could not really tell they were painted on.\u00a0 Me, being the beige one, you can tell.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll keep you posted.\u00a0 I posted on Facebook last night when I did it, and got lots of funny comments back.\u00a0 Then I woke up this morning and had forgotten I\u2019d done it.\u00a0 I wrote \u201cGood grief, on what planet was that a good idea?\u201d\u00a0 My friend Larry Cox\u00a0sent me these:<\/p>\n

Ode to an Eyebrow<\/h2>\n

At fifteen she learned
\nabout eyebrows.
\nThey can let you into,
\n\u2026or keep you out of secrets.
\nThoughts are upper-lined
\nby eyebrows.<\/p>\n

When she was sixteen
\nshe began
\nplucking hers,
\nthin.
\nNowadays she hides
\nthem behind a deep fringe.<\/p>\n

Just in case she becomes famous,
\ncalled to give witness
\nshe understands
\neyebrows are best
\nhidden, like the bruise
\non her face.<\/p>\n

~ Cumin<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then the lover,
\nSighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
\nMade to his mistress\u2019 eyebrow. \u201d
\n~ Christopher Marlowe better known as William Shakespeare<\/p>\n

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