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onceupon

Eyebrows!

Jun 29, 2011 13:32

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Eyebrow Plucking - You speak the truth! lizs18 June 29 2011, 18:05:45 UTC

It's totally true that once you start, it's really hard to stop and that it changes the shape of your brow ( ... )

Re: Eyebrow Plucking - You speak the truth! onceupon June 29 2011, 18:51:27 UTC

There IS something comforting to the ritual of it - and I'm actually kind of fascinated by watching the bulb of the hair shaft PULL OUT OF MY SKIN.

Re: Eyebrow Plucking - You speak the truth! lizs18 June 29 2011, 19:09:09 UTC

Oh totally! I love to look at the brow after it's pulled out to see a bit of skin around it. There's just something kind of 'wow, I just pulled that OUT OF MY FACE' that makes me feel kind of tough! ;)

Re: Eyebrow Plucking - You speak the truth! onceupon June 29 2011, 19:11:00 UTC

ME TOO! I wish I had a microscope sometimes.

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l0stmyrel1g10n June 29 2011, 18:46:26 UTC

I don't pluck my eyebrows. I have in the past, for special occasions, but it hurts too much for me to do it regularly, and my skin turns red at the slightest touch. I still wear eyeshadow.

People still shave off their eyebrows and draw them on again. I don't understand what the point of that is.

onceupon June 29 2011, 18:53:06 UTC

The shaving and redrawing thing - sometimes it seems easier than getting your actual eyebrows to do what you want them to. I think it's kind of interesting - though not practical for me. There's a trick sparkymonster learned involving a glue stick, though, that's good for disguising eyebrows so you can draw really dramatic ones on for events.

l0stmyrel1g10n June 29 2011, 18:56:22 UTC

But they don't look like real eyebrows when they draw them on! They look like cartoon semicircles...

onceupon June 29 2011, 19:09:33 UTC

The mouse pelts probably didn't look "real" either. *laugh* That's the thing that is so interesting to me about grooming and beauty rituals. They are signifiers - the natural eyebrow can be totally replaced so long as SOMETHING that signifies eyebrow is there. We're so used to seeing something there....

There's usually a reason people do things like that. I try to see why people might like the styles and makeup they like. It's pretty much always interesting and illuminating.

synnoveaevael June 29 2011, 18:55:16 UTC

i totally find a ridiculous comfort in the ritual of eyebrow grooming. i don't know why. i am naturally a picker though.

onceupon June 29 2011, 19:10:03 UTC

*nodnodnod*

firynze June 29 2011, 19:05:26 UTC

My mum had terrible, terrible waxing horror stories/incidents when she was young, and now she pretty much has to draw her eyebrows onto her face.

Luckily for me, I have a nicely defined natural arch; I just pluck over my nose every so often, and things are mostly okay. This is good, because I am totally too lazy for eyebrow maintenance.