Thin eyebrows are back - but there's more to this trend than meets the eye | Lauren Cochrane
In 2016, I wrote an article about how eyebrows were "the beauty obsession of the decade". Six years later, we're in a new decade but the obsession continues - it's just the shape that has changed. In the mid-2010s, Cara Delevingne was the undisputed queen of eyebrows, with her "big eyebrow" the gold standard. In 2022, the tweezer is back, and so is the thin eyebrow, last seen in Gen Z's favorite Y2K era.
The first big brow death knell returned in 2018, when Rihanna appeared on the cover of British Vogue with dignified brows from original thin-browed icon Marlene Dietrich. Most recently, Bella Hadid, Alexa Demie and Kendall Jenner have joined the skinny brow team - inspired by Y2K references like Lil' Kim, Pamela Anderson e t Gwen Stefani. Jenner experimented with "bleached" brows for the Met Gala red carpet, and her sister Kim Kardashian had platinum brows (compared to Chloe Sevigny in 1997's Gummo) for the cover of Interview magazine this month. >Julia Fox and Doja Cat, meanwhile, are known for "browless" - they have bleached or shaved theirs respectively. Doja Cat made the switch in August - shaving her head at the same time - and has since shared selfies with "eyebrows" painted in bright colors and patterns. with a natural look, it's a version of the eyebrows worthy of the Club Kid. Vogue calls them "subversive eyebrows". Sam Visser, Hadid's favorite makeup artist, told the magazine, "People don't do their brows anymore from 'I look better like this', they're doing 'this is a cool way to look'."< /p>
In TikTok tutorials - the background noise of any Gen Z pre-game - this idea is only underlined. Glittering eyebrows and fake bleaches...
In 2016, I wrote an article about how eyebrows were "the beauty obsession of the decade". Six years later, we're in a new decade but the obsession continues - it's just the shape that has changed. In the mid-2010s, Cara Delevingne was the undisputed queen of eyebrows, with her "big eyebrow" the gold standard. In 2022, the tweezer is back, and so is the thin eyebrow, last seen in Gen Z's favorite Y2K era.
The first big brow death knell returned in 2018, when Rihanna appeared on the cover of British Vogue with dignified brows from original thin-browed icon Marlene Dietrich. Most recently, Bella Hadid, Alexa Demie and Kendall Jenner have joined the skinny brow team - inspired by Y2K references like Lil' Kim, Pamela Anderson e t Gwen Stefani. Jenner experimented with "bleached" brows for the Met Gala red carpet, and her sister Kim Kardashian had platinum brows (compared to Chloe Sevigny in 1997's Gummo) for the cover of Interview magazine this month. >Julia Fox and Doja Cat, meanwhile, are known for "browless" - they have bleached or shaved theirs respectively. Doja Cat made the switch in August - shaving her head at the same time - and has since shared selfies with "eyebrows" painted in bright colors and patterns. with a natural look, it's a version of the eyebrows worthy of the Club Kid. Vogue calls them "subversive eyebrows". Sam Visser, Hadid's favorite makeup artist, told the magazine, "People don't do their brows anymore from 'I look better like this', they're doing 'this is a cool way to look'."< /p>
In TikTok tutorials - the background noise of any Gen Z pre-game - this idea is only underlined. Glittering eyebrows and fake bleaches...
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