Catastrophic eyebrows plague TV reality shows
The Nurse’s TV viewing pleasure is ruined by an outbreak of catastrophic eyebrow plucking.
Who’d have imagined that eyebrows could cause such consternation? A complete lack of eyebrows, as you can see, makes a person look like an alien. But bad eyebrows are even more disturbing.
Attempting to enjoy Masterchef this week, The Nurse found herself driven to distraction by contestants’ eyebrows. One would-be chef had plucked hers into such a high arch of surprise that The Nurse could only assume she’d sat on something extremely pointy. The night before some misguided lady had plucked hers from above – a complete no-no, with disturbingly Neanderthal results. And Monday night’s classics included a pair with a wide, stubbly gap in the middle of each. Bizarre.
In the olden days we had Jackie magazine. It taught us how to talk to boys, how to navigate teenager-hood with a modicum of success and - crucially - how to pluck our eyebrows without ending up looking mentally ill.
The Nurse dreams of a time when she can watch telly in peace without being menaced by eyebrow-related aesthetic disappointments.
Gary from gatwick parking wrote,
The current fashion for heavily plucked eyebrows is indeed leading to some strange looking expressions. Some women just go too far. They’re left with an expression that makes them look permanently surprised or, worse, they remove their eyebrows completely and then draw some new ones on their foreheads somewhere towards their hair line. Makes them look completely mad….
Link | January 26th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Iain wrote,
Agree with your observations … Whats the purpose of eyebrows anyhow?
Never read beauty magazines they will only make you feel ugly.
Link | February 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 am
The Nurse wrote,
The Nurse agrees. Once you start noticing the buggers you’re doomed. Let’s do away with eyebrows altogether. Perhaps the world would be a better place without them. Imagine, for instance, trying to look intimidating and threatening without eyebrows? No chance. Every human being on earth, no matter how angry, would merely look surprised. No more war. Love, peace and freedom… nice.
Link | February 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Chris from beauty skin care wrote,
Though we’d probably say a person without eyebrows would look ridiculously, if it was the norm I doubt anyone would care. In japan, geisha were more attractive depending on how the back of their neck are painted. We are such a weird race.
Link | April 4th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Roxy wrote,
I was just looking at an old lady on the bus who had removed her eyebrows completely and drawn them back on with what looked like a permanent marker. Her hands were clearly none too steady when she’d applied her make up as her hand drawn eyebrows were both wavy lines drawn half way up her forehead. Not a great look but maybe I’m just out of touch with over-eighties fashions.
Link | May 15th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Alex from Make Up School wrote,
Not the best idea, I don’t think, to pluck you eyebrows if you don’t know what you’re doing.
And I have to say I love the title ‘amateur brain surgery’ for your blog.
Link | July 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
The Nurse wrote,
Thanks Alex. The Nurse couldn’t agree more. She’s seen some absolute schockers since then..!
Link | July 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Si from Leadership wrote,
To be honest! I think that plucking eyebrows into any kind of shape (or basically doing anything with eyebrows atop of just tidying things up) is just going to turn your brow into some kind of plinth for a weird fashion statement.
Link | August 17th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Mary from American Spirit Pageants wrote,
Yeah sometimes I don’t get it. I thought the idea was to clean and trim your eyebrows. Not to look suprised at everything.
Link | November 1st, 2011 at 9:19 pm