The 90s thin brow trend won’t last, don’t fall for it

That’s why, after about 20 years, many Millennials still search Google for solutions and type in keywords like microblading, eyebrow serum or how to regrow eyebrows. We’ve passed many school exams, we’ve come to adulthood, we’ve even faced a pandemic, and all while we eagerly waited for new hairs to pop up where they once grew like weeds.

Why have we “tortured” ourselves for something so seemingly insignificant as our eyebrows? Trends. Marketing. Celebrity. In the period of our life when we were most impressionable, it was considered passé – indeed, not very feminine – to have even a single hair that grew outside the boundaries that the beauty standards of the time had established for us.

With Cara Delevingne coming onto the scene in the early 2010s, those standards turned upside down. Overnight, ultra-thin brows have become a thing of the past, and thick, thick, natural brows have become the new ideal.. Many celebrities – with their endless access to makeup artists, beauty treatments and cosmetic procedures – have aligned themselves at record speed to the new standards. We normal people, on the other hand, got the bad news that eyebrow hairs, after being pulled out wildly, would no longer grow.

With nostalgia for the Y2K era at an all-time high right now, exactly the same thing seems to be happening, but in reverse. Lily James as Pamela Anderson in Pam and Tommy, Barbie Ferreira in 1920s-inspired dresses at the most recent Met Gala, a significant amount of fashion runways, this dangerous filter from TikTok – because of them thin brows are imprinted in modern popular culture. And that means they’re making a comeback whether Millennials like me or not.

While I can’t stop the inevitable, I can at least warn you of what happens if you hazard a permanent face change for the sake of a trend. Just like everything else in this world, all trends must die someday, be it in a week, a year, or even a couple of decades. They end up, and when they do, humans pretty much always go back to what they were doing before.

Source: Vanity Fair

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