Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger’s eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.
When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.
Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.
If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.
You should shape your eyebrows according to your facial structure.
When I was 14, I couldn’t be bothered to tweeze my eyebrows, so I would shave them in between. One time, my hand slipped, and I had half an eyebrow.
A man should not get his eyebrows shaped, he should get them groomed.
In 1963, when I joined Hindi film industry it raised many eyebrows.
My first film, ‘Like Minds,’ was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That’s as far from leading man looks as you can get.
I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong.
I’m not a camp, throwaway queen; I’m not in Neverland. I’m not Jennifer Lopez with three people to pluck my eyebrows. I’ve made myself what I want to be – not everybody’s cup of tea. And people wanna have a look at me. I fully accept that. People have always wanted to have a look at me.
I think eyebrows are the symmetry of the face. If they’re not balanced and brushed up in the right way, your face looks kind of messy.
You really don’t need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature.
People didn’t believe that eyebrows were a business. I believed in it, and I think that’s enough. If you believe it, you can do it.
If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing – the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.
Nature made your eyebrows like that for a reason. I don’t know the reason. Some people say it’s to do with keeping rain out of monkeys’ eyes. Whatever. The point is, if you try to redesign your eyebrows with tweezers and pens, it will look terrible.
I realized that nobody paid attention to eyebrows. In Romania, it was the norm. I thought, ‘This is Hollywood. We work with the most incredible, beautiful models and actors and this is important.’
Marilyn Monroe had thick, dark eyebrows even though her hair was platinum and it looked gorgeous. It worked because she had brown eyes – dark eyes can handle a dark brow even if the hair is blond.
Models used to shave their eyebrows so they could pencil them in very thin.
Eyebrows are the framework for the entire face.
Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it’s just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it’s one of my pet hates.
It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze ’em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from ‘Sesame Street.’
I don’t mind my eyebrows. They add… something to me. I wouldn’t say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows.
Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I’d say the answer to that is no. But equally, it’s a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman’s appearance, and I don’t wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
I shaved my eyebrows in 10th grade.
I was 4 years old and wanted to be the scariest witch anyone had ever seen. My mom painted my face green, darkened my eyebrows, and put a mole on my nose so I could fully look the part.
When people start messing with their foreheads and can’t lift their eyebrows, that’s weird.
I never did my eyebrows in most of my early films.
Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.
The human eye uses the eyebrow as an anchor point for the rest of the face. This is why a woman can look truly stunning without any makeup but perfectly shaped, full eyebrows.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I’m doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
I’m down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though – that didn’t go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
I like how food can look incredible more than I like eating it. I started moving food around the plate to make it appear I’d eaten more but then enjoyed making faces on the plate – peas for eyebrows, Yorkshire puddings for eyes.
In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley’s eyebrows.
I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows. I used to never have any, and then I realised big eyebrows are good, and now I’m an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.
Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
When you’re trying to recreate an era, eyebrows and hair are the most important thing to consider.
I have crazy eyebrows, so it’s crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.
Eyebrows are the most difficult beauty feature to master – we all have different bone structure, brow texture, and coloring.
I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of ‘Hair,’ I had no eyebrows – kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.
I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.
My eyebrows could do with a trim.
My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let ’em grow.
Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends’ eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family – my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.
When I was a kid, to me, all women that I think were beautiful always tend to be ethnic of some sort. To be honest I think it’s the eyebrows – the powerful, strong eyebrows.
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
I like it to look natural, to be smooth, dewy glowy. I like my eyebrows to look nice and I love lip gloss. That’s essential to the Saweetie look.
Basic Instinct 2′ is an uneasy experience because, although it is hyper-reflexive to the point where it is hard to think of one character, one scene, one plot twist that isn’t a reference or an echo, there is nothing knowing about it. No matter how absurd the film gets, it refuses to raise its eyebrows.
It’s a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It’s amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
In 1976, divorce could still raise eyebrows, as could a woman’s decision not to have children. Dyslexia wasn’t as commonly recognized then, and thus not treated as it is today.
I had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I’ve had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is.
My everyday look is casual, and I try not to wear makeup if I don’t have to. I’ll cover a zit with a little concealer, but I don’t wear foundation on a daily basis. I maybe fill in my eyebrows.
I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn’t move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that filler stuff injected, but I looked like a hamster with wodges of food in its cheeks, so I stopped that.
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