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

My fiance has brilliant eyebrows, they are fantastically animated and somehow seem to move as though they're on independent bits of elastic! In comparison mine feel very inferior indeed.

Just thought I would randomly share that with you! Does that make me a bad person??

My fiance has an absolutely awesome left nostril... Good heavens, I do believe it's time for a nice cup of tea!!

BYE.

Aaaaaack! DON'T get 'em tatooed on, az. Trust me.

As 'women of a certain age' we can't deny gravity, just defy it a bit. Things tend to slip downwards, ya know. I once did makeup on a woman whose tattooed brows not only went turquoise after years of fading, but they'd crept into the crease above her lid. Very creepy.

Get a decent brow stencil, powder 'em on, and then you can set them with a cosmetic shellac if you're worried about them smudging. I'd say you're lucky, because you can opt for a 'mood of the day' and do whatever suits your fancy with them.

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All kinds of options for you.

Is it just me or did most of the 'before' pics look better than the 'after' pics?

The lip ones were particularly scary!

Something less permanent:- Eyebrow wigs
http://www.eyebrowz.com/mens/wigs.htm
among others.

Doubtless you could get a merkin to match!

That's a hoot, jazzhag!

I guess the cheapskate's alternative would be to invest in some mustache wax and shave bits off the cat.

I wonder who *buys* these things?

But then you'd have a bald pussy!

Seriously I suppose there are people who have alopecia or other reasons for hair loss and want to look 'normal', which I suppose is fine - I can imagine getting fed up with people asking 'what happened to your eyebrows' and wanting to blend in.

The rest of us desperately trying to get rid of our hairiness - shaving, waxing, depilatory creaming, plucking, electrolysis, etc! Strange folk humans!

Merkins originated in the 15th century, prostitutes used them to disguise supurating sores from venereal diseases.

Checkout
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/MP1094162?skip=0&show=25&s_type=pop&s_target=conversation

The eyebrow "falsies" are not new: In the 18th century, eyebrows were shaved (or fell out as a result of the use of lead paint as a cosmetic) and were replaced with ones made of mouse skin.

Here is a lovely little trivia game about various odd cosmetic practices: http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz.cfm?qid=146726&origin=

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Most of them looked pretty scary to me! Before *and* after!

Meanwhile, what *is* the point of lipliner (unless you are on the stage?). Very bizarre idea to me, to outline one's lips in a darker colour than one's lipstick so that . . . well, *what* exactly?

I can't wear lipstick at all - it just ends up smeared all over the place after about half an hour. In fact, the only makeup I wear is a Body Shop eyebrow pencil, lightly applied and then brushed so it blends in with the few eyebrow hairs I have. I have it down so that if I ever mention to someone that I use eyebrow pencil they are surprised and say it looks like natural eyebrows to them.

The eyebrow wigs link was also quite funny. Do people actually *do* this?

Don't worry, MoG, I was just kidding about getting them tattooed. Though a friend of mine here swears by getting her eyelashes dyed ever two or three months. I'd consider doing this (as I have almost no eyelashes either and have the same problem with mascara that I do with lipstick) except it costs 20 euros a crack.


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Lip-liner, if used correctly, apparently keeps one's lipstick from bleeding over the lip-line. I have no idea the reason for using a liner darker than the color of the lipstick. I think it looks stupid, too.

While I think of it, when I was a kid, the mother of one of the kids who went to day camp with us used to drive us home afterwards. I was always frightened of her since she looked kinda nuts. The reason for this was that she used to put this bright red lipstick which she put right around her mouth really thickly, including corners. It was as though she just smeared around her mouth without regard to where her actual lips were.... Scary....

Thanks for the quiz Mudhooks, I got two wrong!

Not sure if the fake beauty spot was made out of mouse skin as well, but do know they became fashionable as they covered up pock mark scars!