Fashionable eyebrow shapes.
Anna Savina, head of “Tattoo College Biotek” educational centre, president of the Russian Aesthetic Dermopigmentation society (ADES)
Eyebrows are the basis of the face. It is eyebrows (not eyes or lips as we tend to think) that add completeness, harmony to the face and, in the end, individuality. If you change the pattern of the eyebrows the face will be different.
For centuries the shape and the colour of the eyebrows have been surprisingly connected with the artistic ideals of the epoch, emotional mood of the society, its cultural and spiritual values.
For example, slightly curved extended to the temples line of the eyebrows of Egyptian beauties finely harmonizes with their slender bodies and long folded garment. The smoothness of this line communicates the sense of static nature of the epoch. Precision and saturation remind of the firmness of its canons.
Looking at the pictures of the famous artists one can track the alteration of the eyebrow shape that used to emphasize the divine essence of medieval Madonnas, the Renaissance which was strongly attracted to ancient ideals and at the same time did homage to mathematics and engineering, the transition from the Renaissance harmony to the restless baroque and further to the Age of the Enlightenment.
It should be mentioned that at all times smoothness of lines has always been typical of an optimistic, life-asserting nature of the epoch. Absence of angles and sharp bends mean prosperity, wellbeing and stability. And bowed down zigzag lines mean some unsteadiness, internal conflict, conflict of opposites.
The aspect of a woman has always been dictated by theatre and cinema stars – it is they who set vogue for eyebrow shape, thickness and colour. With the epoch of silent movies women understood that a spectacularly emphasized eyebrow magnifies the magical power of the look. Later the canon of the Hollywood glamour was established by Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Lee. It is interesting to watch the development of this trend thumbing through men’s journals of the 30-50s. Each decade made its own corrections of the image. We can track them in the changing eyebrow shape.
Today’s culture is a polyphony. Therefore fashion trends do not impose us certain shapes and lines. Deliberately thick-eyebrow frowning, typical of, for example, Stella Tennant, is exploited with pleasure by romantic designers (Miuccia Prada). Though most models have temperate eyebrows, i.e. thick, well-attended, expressive, but not dominant. Thus, a make-up artist has a possibility of a maneuver – to strengthen the eyebrows or subdue them depending of the image created.
Professionals willingly invent new methods of a festive or fancy make-up of the eyebrows. They use golden pens or coloured mascara shading in the tips, colourless gels for setting and fixing the shape.
The following material is used in the report:
from the book “Permanent make-up” (Moscow, 2009, KOSMETIK, international/Biotek), head of the writing team is Anna Savina
from the report of Natalia Nikitina “Flutter style” (Sicilia, 2011)
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