![]() As Encyclopaedia Iranica explains, before becoming a wife, a young woman would have her hair removed-including having her eyebrows threaded, which involves a thin thread used to extract multiple hairs at once. The practice of “making them nice” originated in ancient Persia, where eyebrow maintenance was used as a marker of womanhood. “If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the eyebrows are the curtains that frame these windows. Because we can see them,” a blog called Valley ominously warns fellow females. “Pluck those little blonde hairs in the middle of your brows, even if you think no one can see them. And thanks to eyebrows’ central position on the face, challenging this directive marks her automatically as loud and intentionally provocative. Referred to medically as the synophrys, her monobrow exists outside the confines of acceptability in contemporary western culture. She’s Blanca Flores in Orange Is The New Black, and Olga Pataki in Hey! Arnold. She’s uncouth, an outcast, or just plain evil. We’re also used to the stereotype of the woman with hyperbolic, bushy brows that connect at the bridge of the nose. Maybe it reminds us of not quite fitting in as adolescents, and the reassuring thought that growing into one’s own could be so simple as picking up a pair of tweezers. There’s a certain guilty pleasure in watching these fictional transformations unfold. ![]()
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