{"id":42547,"date":"2015-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=42547"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:08:25","slug":"the-horrific-state-of-my-teenage-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/42547\/the-horrific-state-of-my-teenage-eyebrows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horrific State of My Teenage Eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eyebrows are very important, you guys. But oh man, I’ve had some sad brow game in my lifetime.<\/p>\n

When I was a teenager, and still trying to figure out my identity (AKA copy what the other girls at school were doing while also reading the confused, mixed messages dutifully delivered by Cosmo magazine), I had thin, arched eyebrows that I penciled over in a hue 12 shades darker than my natural hair color.<\/p>\n

I also wore brown lipstick. (Let\u2019s all take a moment to fully appreciate the mental image conjured by this). Give me a break. It was 1997, a time when even movie stars would fashionably overtweeze and sometimes even shave off their brows to achieve that PERFECT pencil-thin rainbow arch. <\/p>\n

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But clearly, I wasn\u2019t a movie star. And instead of an arch, my eyebrows looked more like black colored zig-zag shapes drawn over my eyes. And I looked like a friggin\u2019 hoochie.<\/p>\n

The worst is when I would sweat during gym class and go back to the locker rooms with brown streams of liquid dripping from the top of my forehead.<\/p>\n

One time, I decided to try one of those electric brow shavers. I can still hear the buzz of the hair leaving my face. Word of advice, peeps: DON\u2019T TRY TO USE AN ELECTRIC ANYTHING. YOU WILL TAKE YOUR EYEBROWS OFF, WITHOUT A DOUBT.<\/p>\n

And by the way, it\u2019s totally possible to pluck your eyebrows so much that they stop growing back. If you damage the follicle enough, you\u2019re done. To this day, I have a naked patch in the middle of my right eyebrow that I\u2019m forced to draw in with a pencil. I might as well have been using garden shears on my face when I was a teen. What a mess.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy to report that nowadays my brow game is totally on-point, thanks in part to an angled blending brush, eyebrow powder and a professional who shapes them for me.<\/big><\/p>\n

[Image via here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

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