Little-Known Facts About Your Brows

I’m obsessed with eyebrows—that’s a fact that's been well-documented.
I’m fascinated with testing the best products and finding the most natural-looking shape, that’s a given, but I’ve also found myself equally as interested in researching their history.

1. Your brows can have cowlicks. 

“Oftentimes eyebrows have cowlicks

just like we have on our head. This is more likely to happen if you have wavy or curly hair, although it can also happen on those with straight hair. This is especially important to know because when you are trimming the brows, you need to trim in the direction that the hairs are growing. When you isolate a cowlick, you must notice the wave pattern or the direction it's growing in and work accordingly.”

2. Your brows are more active in the summer.

“Your brow hairs grow faster in the summer because of the warm weather and the fact that we're more active. In the winter they slow down.”

3. Your brows give you better vision.

The shape of your brow bone and the brows themselves keep rain, moisture, and sweat away from your eyes so your vision stays clear.

4. The Mona Lisa doesn’t have eyebrows.

Never thought about it, right? Just think of all the tourists taking pictures with the painting and never once realising her famous face doesn’t include the feature we’ve come to love so dearly. But there was a report in 2007 that suggests either Leonardo da Vinci revised the painting (removing the brows) or that they had been unintentionally removed when the painting was cleaned.

5. Eyebrows really do nothing to change your face or eye shape.

“What they do is give people an impression of you. Are you happy? Sleepy? Mad? Surprised? Your eyebrows give a very quick first impression of the type of person someone thinks you are.”

6. Unibrows were seen as a sign of intelligence.

Many cultures throughout history held the unibrow in very high esteem. While we’re more apt to pluck or tweeze, many notable figures exaggerated the hair because it was considered to portray intelligence and beauty.

7. Stress effects the growth of your eyebrows.

“Stress can cause your brows to grow slower or not at all. I see brides trying to get their brows growing for the big day, and then once the honeymoon is over, their brows finally are growing in.”

8. Your hair follicle attempts to recover the hair after you’ve plucked it.

“Does the skin around your eyebrow bump up right after you tweeze ? It's usually the hair follicle closing to save the hair. It relaxes in about two hours and then it's gone. It's not a breakout. If you notice bumps two to three days after a tweeze ? That's a breakout. That's usually from a product that was applied right after the wax or tweeze.”