The Bella Hadid facelift: will a generation of girls regret shaving their eyebrows?
When I was 14, on the advice of a so-called friend, I plucked my eyebrows like a pencil and hand on my heart, not a day goes by that I'm not replaying this conversation. What if I hadn't listened to her? What if I had seen her do it first? And – I think applying an eyebrow pencil every morning – if we had never met? So the news that people are partially shaving the ends of their eyebrows with a razor is just scary, at least for anyone born in the 1980s.
Nevertheless, the growth point of getting older is learning, as Sherrille Riley, founder and CEO of Nails & Brows, a salon in London's Mayfair, puts it: "We've all done it, so maybe every generation must make their mistake now and repent later."
While most DIY beauty trends have been on the decline since the pandemic, eyebrow trends have been on the rise. From brow lamination - like a perm for your brows - to microblading, brow bleaching (see Nicola Peltz-Beckham), soap brows (in which a bar of soap is applied to the brows with a coil brush for hold in place) and thin brows, when it comes to experimenting with brows, we just can't help it.
The straight brow trend involves shaving or tweezing the end of your eyebrow in order to "smooth" your eyebrows and supposedly lift your face. It started life on TikTok, where the stiff brows have now racked up 129 million views, though it was model Bella Hadid, the public crier of supernatural beauty procedures, who made it real.
< p class="dcr-8zipgp"> It's not old but it's not exactly new, says Riley. "In a way, it's a variation of what we call Audrey's eyebrow, which is to make a straight, full eyebrow," she says. "But it's more about making the most of what you have, so brushing upwards and then tapering them at the end, like you would for a graduated cut," she adds. "I would never use a razor and I would never remove whole s...
When I was 14, on the advice of a so-called friend, I plucked my eyebrows like a pencil and hand on my heart, not a day goes by that I'm not replaying this conversation. What if I hadn't listened to her? What if I had seen her do it first? And – I think applying an eyebrow pencil every morning – if we had never met? So the news that people are partially shaving the ends of their eyebrows with a razor is just scary, at least for anyone born in the 1980s.
Nevertheless, the growth point of getting older is learning, as Sherrille Riley, founder and CEO of Nails & Brows, a salon in London's Mayfair, puts it: "We've all done it, so maybe every generation must make their mistake now and repent later."
While most DIY beauty trends have been on the decline since the pandemic, eyebrow trends have been on the rise. From brow lamination - like a perm for your brows - to microblading, brow bleaching (see Nicola Peltz-Beckham), soap brows (in which a bar of soap is applied to the brows with a coil brush for hold in place) and thin brows, when it comes to experimenting with brows, we just can't help it.
The straight brow trend involves shaving or tweezing the end of your eyebrow in order to "smooth" your eyebrows and supposedly lift your face. It started life on TikTok, where the stiff brows have now racked up 129 million views, though it was model Bella Hadid, the public crier of supernatural beauty procedures, who made it real.
< p class="dcr-8zipgp"> It's not old but it's not exactly new, says Riley. "In a way, it's a variation of what we call Audrey's eyebrow, which is to make a straight, full eyebrow," she says. "But it's more about making the most of what you have, so brushing upwards and then tapering them at the end, like you would for a graduated cut," she adds. "I would never use a razor and I would never remove whole s...What's Your Reaction?
