Don't ask where this is coming from because I have no idea. It just popped into my head the other day that I wanted to write about eye brows . Yup . . . I said eye brows. With all that is going on in the world these days and it being 2 weeks before Christmas you would think I would have more pertinent things to write about but that just isn't the case. These idiot thoughts lodge themselves in my brain and won't go away until I write about them. I wonder if Stephen King has this problem ? (Where DOES that man get his ideas from ???? I can not imagine living inside his head!)
On to the eye brow issue . . . about fifteen years ago I let one of my Florida friends talk me into going to a "salon" to have a "free" make up session. The idea was that you would have someone analyze your skin and then show you what sort of make-up you should use and just how to apply it to maximize your beauty. I knew this was a hopeless venture and it was inevitably going to cost me a good chunk of change but it was a fun way to spend an afternoon with a friend and get away from Husband for a couple of hours. My friend had discovered this salon and gone to it the previous week. I must say she was looking particularly good which had prompted me to comment on her new "glowing" self. As a result I found myself sucked into a "day at the salon" with friend Carol. (As a side note I should tell you that I no longer hang out with this woman. I liked her a lot but for some reason our lives took different paths when Husband got sick so I haven't seen her in over five years. We do still connect on Facebook but nothing more than that.Probably a good thing for me as most of her ideas cost me money.)
The day of the great makeup adventure was entertaining to say the least. I went into this giving full disclosure to the girl who was working on me that I do NOT wear a lot of makeup. Like my hair, if I can't "fix" it in less than ten seconds I don't want to be bothered. I hate fussing with hair and makeup because it usually doesn't help to spend much time on either one. You just can't make Filet Mignon from chop meat.
I did learn a few things about applying makeup but the one thing that stuck in my brain was that your eyebrows "highlight" your face. If you think about it why the hell do we have eyebrows ? We have a nose to breath through, a mouth to eat with, eyes to see things but then there are these two wooly caterpillars above our eyes that serve no purpose at all. I'm told that the reason we have body hair goes back to cave man times when the hair kept them warm. (TMI . . . Husband must have been one step this side of Neanderthal because that man had more fuzz on him than a bear in winter.)
And yet with all this purpose of body features our eyebrows remain a mystery. They are perched there above our eyes doing absolutely nothing. So when the girl told me my eyebrows had the job of highlighting my face it made perfect sense. She showed me that without accent my face looks bland but as soon as she darkened my eyebrows it did seem to make my face "pop". (Of course by that point she had three tons of makeup plastered on my face so it was no wonder my "beauty" came to light as she applied yet another layer of paint above my eyes. ) I did spend a small fortune in makeup that day, all of which still sits in the bottom drawer in my bathroom vanity. EXCEPT for the eyebrow pencil. That I use every single day! (I no longer have the very expensive eyebrow pencil that I purchased six years ago but there are several variations of it in my vanity. I have tried many, many different brands and have come to the conclusion that the cheap one from the dollar store works just as well as the $50 dollar one purchased at Macys.)
Now . . . all of this brings us to my obsession with eyebrows. I can NOT watch TV or movies without noticing a woman's eyebrows. (I won't even discuss the wooly caterpillar eyebrows of most men.) You don't have to worry about me zooming in on your eyebrows if you are standing in person in front of me. I am way to distracted with being in the presence of a live human being to notice much of anything but put a face on the TV and I can not keep from noting the eyebrows on that person. This is probably a result of the crap that we watch on TV. I am so bored with the blah blah blah yapping of TV news anchors and celebrities that my brain immediately goes to any distraction I can find and eyebrows always catch my eye. I can't help but wonder what most of these public figures are thinking when they apply their makeup each day before broadcast. (If there is someone "doing" their makeup they should be aware that I am watching and making snide comments on the nature of the eyebrow.) When a face on the TV has her eyebrows painted on three inches above her eyes I HAVE to say something. There is a bone above the eye forming an eye socket. I was always under the impression that eyebrows grew along that bone line framing the eye. When you put makeup on the eyebrow it does accent your eyes but if you put the makeup on so far about your eye it looks STUPID !
I really need you all to start taking note of this phenomenon the next time you're watching your favorite TV host or news anchor. Let me know if it's just me or have the eyebrows of the world gone out of control and are preparing to over take our country. It sure beats listening to the crap that is being spewed from our newscasters.
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