I am a face person which is a rather odd thing for someone in the body business to be. For as long as I can remember, faces and facial features have fascinated my left brain. I’ve been told that as a two year old, I could draw a face on my little chalk desk, carefully placing the features exactly where they belonged. As a child I made my own paper dolls and as a student I drew the faces of all of my friends from their class portraits. To this day if you ask me to draw an object from memory it would look rather primitive but if you ask me to draw a face, I can finesse a recognizable likeness of almost anyone. One of the features that fascinates me the most is the eyebrows, not just because they are expressive and frame the eyes, but because the shape can change a person’s looks drastically and sometimes it is just a small tweak that makes the difference.

Not everyone has the luxury of perfectly shaped brows and some are lucky to have any at all but now days there are so many options. There are stencils on the market for tweezing or penciling in the perfect brows. Some even have resorted to having them tattooed on. There are even fake brows that look very real for the person who has lost theirs. But as if they were fashion accessories, rather than features, the popularity of thickness or thinness comes and goes. The worst of these are the ultra thin or drawn on versions which resemble commas above the eyes. And then there are the uni-brows and ultra thick brows which would better be groomed with a weed whacker than waxed or tweezed. Brows that are lifted too much can make a person look perpetually surprised, especially if frozen in place with Botox. Oddly shaped brows can make a person look sad, angry, mean, insincere, and sarcastic or give the illusion of a very broad forehead if they are widely spaced. Even intelligence is often judged by the eyebrows. The expression “highbrow” which is used to describe a kind of haughty intelligence came from a belief that those with large foreheads had more brains. The opposite was true and the expression “lowbrow” came about describing a small forehead.

The perfect brow starts at the inside corner of the eye, arches where the line from the outside corner of the nose to the outside of the iris intersects the brow, and ends in a subtle downward sweep toward the temples. Below are some of the most beautiful brows out there in my opinion. I will not swear that they haven’t been lifted or shaped but in my book, they can’t be beat!