How scary are your eyebrows?
29th August 2008
In this issue:
1. How
scary are your eyebrows?
2. Colour
and Style training
3. Change
your life with a career in colour
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How scary are your eyebrows?
Last weekend, Neil and I were taken out for Sunday lunch by his parents to a lovely, unique restaurant whose clientele are mostly older couples who had taken the opportunity to dress up, the gentlemen in suits and ties and the ladies in dresses and jackets, or suits.
Neil's father introduced us to a very smart gentleman who he'd worked with for over 20 years. The gentleman's wife and her sister nodded politely from their table and from that moment, I couldn't take my eyes off them.
From the conversation, I would guestimate that they were either in their late sixites or early seventies. They were obviously genteel ladies with cut-glass manners, dressed in clearly expensive, beautiful softly-coloured suits with matching shoes and handbags and neither had an immaculately-coiffured silvery-blonde hair out of place but, oh dear, their make-up let them both down - badly - and I just couldn't stop staring.
It was their eyebrows!
As both were (obvious to me) natural blondes in their youth, their eyebrows were also fairly lightly coloured but it looked as though they had both either lost all the colour in their brows (perhaps through the onset of older age) or, more likely, they had shaved them off at some point of madness in their youth.
One
of the sisters had no eyebrows to speak of and her face looked distinctly
unbalanced - a bit like the photo on the right here of Gwen Stefani
(with barely-there eyebrows she's all mouth in the photo on the right
but, with virtually the same make-up on, the darker coloured
eyebrows adds definition and balance to her overall look in the photo
on the left).
The other sister had chosen to fill in the missing blanks (as it were) and, good grief and glory, what a pig's ear she'd made of it.
She'd
just drawn a single, arched, heavy, dark line with a fat-tipped almost-black
pencil over each eye where the long-gone hairs had once been - a bit
like the photo of this lady looking rather unnatural and perpetually
surprised.
So what are eyebrows for?
The main function of the eyebrow is to prevent moisture, mostly salty sweat and rain, from flowing into the eye. The typical curved shape of the eyebrow (with a slant on the side) and the direction in which eyebrow hairs are pointed, make sure that moisture has a tendency to flow sideways around the eyes, along the side of the head and along the nose.
- So, if you've shaved your eyebrows off and you're out in heavy rain, you'd better have a large handkerchief with you to mop up all the water that your eyebrows would normally have channelled away from your eyes!
Eyebrows also play an important role when we are communicating with others; flexing our eyebrows helps to express surprise or anger much more effectively.
As you can see
from the photo above, permanently arched and obviously unnatural
eyebrows make you look permanently surprised and obviously unnatural.
Is that really what you want?
Remember the lady from Sunday lunch? I have absolutely no idea what she was saying because I was so transfixed by the horrendous, black eyebrows that she'd drawn in. I caught myself with my mouth hanging open - not a pretty sight, I grant you, but rather better than the Picasso painting in front of me!
What your eyebrow shape tells us about your personality
If your eyebrows are highly arched, then this indicates your love of drama; all the world is a stage to you, and you probably have a natural flair for acting and / or a passion for the theatre. You'll probably enjoy dressing in quite a dramatic way too but you need to know how to tone down the drama when the situation requires it; can I suggest you choose some softer colours from your seasonal or tonal palette? And for goodness sake don't make it worse by pencilling in your eyebrows with a single pencil line - you've already seen what that will do!
If you have high-set eyebrows (where the space from the base of the eyelid to the base of the eyebrow is larger than the height of your eye), you can appear very aloof and quite formal so be aware that people might avoid introducing themselves to you. Cher and Hillary Clinton are typical examples. You and I know that really you are just highly selective about your friends and will want to get to know someone first before opening up. After that, though, you'll be friends for life.
If you have low-set or less arched eyebrows, you are very approachable because you look so friendly. Most male Hollywood stars have this look - George Clooney and Brad Pitt, for instance. You wil find it easy to meet people as you look more casual. When you need to look a little more authoritative, though, you'll find that wearing sharply contrasting colours will help.
If you want:
- help on how to make the most of your eyebrows to shape and define your face
- to find out which colours will help you look authoritative and which will make you look more approachable
then book now to see a professional Life is too short to scare potential friends and clients away!
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