what's with those eyebrows?

I was talking with a friend the other day about beauty tips and she was plucking her eyebrowes, to make them arch just right. I thought this was unusual, but then I think anything concerning how we fuss over our eyebrows is unusual.

While I know you see a bunch of roses for my picture, I have no isseus iwth my eyebrows. Another one of my friends conmented on how wonderfully shaped my eyebrows were. She commented on how nicely arched they were, and nicely separated....

That got me to thinking, what's with the eyebrow thing? I mean, eyebrows just sit on our faces, adorning the ridge and musculature above our eyes, keeping every thing from looking too plain.

Some people are blessed with the ability to move the musculature under their eyebrows, I remember John Belushi, with his thickly tufted brows, he could move independently of each other. He could look quizzical, iinitimidating, and be hilarious just by moving one eyebrow!

I admired that skill, as I do not posess it. The best I can do is look surprised with both eyebrows raised. (sigh)

But back to the overall study of the eyebrows. For some they are a trademark. Groucho Marx was famous for the little wolly mamoths that sat over his eyeglasses, and Brooke Shields managed to become a supermodel while sporting what looks dangerously like a unibrow under tight control! The late, great Yul Brenner was bald! Didn't grow a beard, a mustache, or eyebrows, but he had one of the most handsome, exotic and expressive faces in Hollywood! He didn't need hair on his eyebrows to be expressive, and I'm glad that he didn't let any makeup artists draw or paint them on his handsome brow!

I've been watching a lot of Univision lateley, (not my idea, but I'm a guest, so watch what the host watches...) and I noticed a lot of actresses that had penciled in or painted on eyebrows. They look weird! I understand that a female face should be adorned, especially in movies and television for stunning emotional close-up shots, but, I don't care how skilled the make up artist is, a drawn-on eyebrow, looks like a drawn-on eyebrow! (sigh again)

Maybe we're spending too much time on the minutiae of beuaty when you have to:(a) pluck your eyebrows, and then (b) ddraw then back into place!

But then maybe I'm wrong... Andy Rooney's got some whoppers that need mowing! But then we don''t really expect men to have eyebrows as a major make up issue, unless you've been hired to be a Geico Caveman!

As for me, I'll just keep the dandfruff out of mine.