h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, there it is, TRIG and Kea... A significant portion of New Zealanders are descended from the Irish - those who aren't of Scots descent!
Kea, I tend to think your expert may be a wee bit wrong.



(Cat woman, Scots and English descended, 1st generation NZer on one side, third on t'other.)

I don't have any eyebrows . . .




az

So sorry azahar - did you leave them on the No. 6 bus?

What a bummer when Dennis Healey has enough for 10.

If you like I'll put you down on my donor card 'eyebrows to Azahar' - sick to death of plucking them anyhow. Lol

Have you looked down the back of the sofa, az?

RF

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MoG- the pointing with lips things happens here, too (Midlands of England)

Get some tatooed on Az - that's what Theresa Gorman did (anyone remember her??)

I'm sure Robert Winston or John Cleese or somebody on a How Humans Behave-type TV thingy said that *all* humans greet each other by raising their eyebrows (this would have been UK TV) - the eyebrow flash, I think it was called.

I certainly do it.

Eyebrow donation - what a fab idea. Could I have somebody's eye*lashes* though - mine are short and stubbly and I'd really like some long, starry ones.

Mol

Eyebrow donation? Would they be like false moustaches - just stick 'em on?

I think the tatoo option might be better.


So, who has the most expressive eyebrows you've ever seen? I think Sean Connery's are quite good.



az the eyebrowless

az mentioned this thread to me....

A sort of nod, sometimes accompanied by a slight raising of the eyebrows is used as an acknowledgement. It can be used as a method of acknowledging a stranger (usually with a slight smile or a tightening of the lips to intimate a smile) or a method of saying "There you are. I see you." if you have been looking for someone, as in a noisy pub.

az specifically mentioned what my neices and nephews have termed "Anutie A's Eyebrow of Doom", referring to my all-purpose "I will kill you", "What ARE you doing", or "If you dare mention that...." raised eyebrow. It is, apparently, withering, and something which strikes fear into their precious little hearts.

On the issue of raising eyebrows.....

My brother was at the Toronto Zoo once. While watching the chimps, he noticed one of the male chimps raise his eyebrows at him. He responded by raising his, too (while lifting his bangs out of his face to amplify it). The chimp responded by returning the raised eyebrows. This went back and forth for some time, with the chimp becoming more forceful with his eyebrows and rocking back and forth, until, suddenly, he rushed over to the nearest female, grabbed her and started.... ummmmm.... "having his way with her" and glaring at my brother.

Apparently, raising eyebrows, is, amongst chimps, a provocation and threat gesture.

I once had a "talk to the animals" experience with a chimp at the zoo. I had 10-day-old OSH in a front sling, and a mummy chimp came over and tapped the glass at me. At first I thought she was just copying what countless visitors do to her every day, but she gestured as well and made it very clear by her facial expressions and her hand movements that she wanted to see my baby (other people saw this and commented on it too - it wasn't just me being a gooey mum). And when I showed him to her, she looked and looked and looked, clearly absolutely fascinated by this tiny human being.

Amazing. I'd never realised before how much we have in common with chimps, or how much can be communicated non-verbally.

Mol

They say something like 80% of human communication is non-verbal.

I put one eyebrow up, & then keep swapping them!

I'd like to swap mine! Any takers?


az

Mine meet in the middle and i only do the raising eyebrows when meeting close family and friends when it looks like two caterpillars fighting .
az. you can have some of mine

http://smh.com.au/ftimages/2005/01/14/1105582713158.html

aaawwwwwwwwwwwwww . . .

You know, pdante, your eyebrows don't *have* to meet in the middle (unless you like them that way).

Is it really possible to get eyebrows tatooed in?


az

Yes, it is. You have to be careful, though. You don't want to go through life looking like Groucho Marx or having a permanently "surprised" look on your face. It can look good or it can look horrible, depending on the skill and training of the person creating them.

There is a woman who frequents the building I work in who has these two, completely straight, dark black, rectangular things perched well above the natural brow-line which resemble (and I am NOT joking) pieces of 3/4" wide black electrical tape. I have never been close enough to see if these are permanent or if she paints them on every day. I am thinking that they are permanent, because they have never seemed to be smudged, and it would br difficult, it seems to me, to make it through a day at work (no, she is not a street-person or "crazie") without a smudge.

It is really bizarre.

You can also have your lip line tattooed and permanent eye liner done at the same time.

So you can look lovely first thing in the morning without make up on

Well, with triangle eyebrows, outlined eyes and lips - and given the state of my *hair* first thing in the morning - I'd end up looking more like Bozo the Clown.


az

This is what the eyebrows I mentioned above look like (pretty close): http://anre.org/oaf/img/ep4-eyebrows.jpeg

I always get a kick out of those women who have tweezed their eyebrows off only to draw them on again, further and further up their forehead (they're called eye BROWs for a reason, ladies.... because they are supposed to sit on your eye BROW, not inside the back of your collar!)

Here is something about "permanent make-up" including eyebrows.
http://www.gentle-hands.com/permanent-makeup.htm