The trouble with eyebrow tattoos.
Were a time traveller from any point during the past hundred years to arrive in any of our metropolises in 2017, her immediate reaction would be: “What the hell’s happened to everybody’s eyebrows?” For Australia is filled with women whose arches have moved beyond mere power brow into megalomaniac territory. The influences may be diverse — from Kate Middleton via Cara Delevingne to those innumerable Kardashians — yet the effect is curiously identikit: Mother Nature’s finest have been traded for a pair of vast, clumsily tattooed boomerangs. Subtle it isn’t.
And that’s just when they’re freshly needled. In the years that follow, matters may become still more bizarre-looking. Ever an early adopter in the realm of beauty, I had mine tattooed dark brown 15 years ago, and can confirm that their progress ran thus: weeks of looking certifiable; six months of arch perfection; long years with bright orange streaks causing my brothers to label me “The Joker”. A blonde friend’s turned khaki before settling on purple. We consider ourselves the Ancient Mariners of the brow world.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Harper's Bazaar Australia.
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