THEY say that your eyebrows are the window to your soul. That may be why I, and women like myself, have fussed over our brow hairs for decades. From waxing, plucking, microblading, and even shaving it all off at one point (a cardinal sin, trust me, I know), my brows have gone through it all.
And yet, with all the effort and money spent, I still can't bear to look at my former brows without cringing. A similar phenomenon is trending on TikTok, where creators, mostly in their 20s and 30s, share selfies before cutting to a past version of themselves with different eyebrows. "Eyebrow blindness" has taken the platform by storm, with women rising out of the ranks to admit that they, too, are ashamed, or at the least embarrassed by their former brows.
Brow trends have see-sawed over the decades, often from one extreme to the other, from stick-skinny to bushy to seemingly Sharpie-d on. "Normal" people are not the only ones susceptible to the trend — celebrities are, too. Actresses like Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green on Friends, have flip-flopped from stick-skinny brows to more filled-in and bushier styles.
Others, like Olivia Wilde and Demi Lovato, have come clean with their over-plucking regrets. "I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I’ve been letting them grow out for years.
I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me," Wilde said to T Magazine . I would even argue that many have catapulted the rise of certain beauty trends, including the popularity of "blocky" br.
