January 16, 2014. 9 photos.
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In this week’s The Good Eye, Amy Gentry celebrates bold and beautiful brows. Local writer, performer, and eyebrow queen Monique Daviau, pictured here, says her boyfriend fell for her arches before they even met. Daviau goes to Tiffany at Hey Gorgeous for regular maintenance. “I’d look like Bert without intervention.” -
Katie Rodriguez, who works in the jewelry department of Nordstrom, has the following advice: “Never over-tweeze. And if you don’t know how to do it, go to a pro.” -
Improvisor Valerie Ward of Parallelogramophonograph has gone through pluckier phases in the past; now she has a minimalist routine. -
Shannon Norton, who works at RetailMeNot, has killer brows in the Brooke Shields tradition. She does minimal maintenance, but lets her natural shape shine. -
Chella, whom I bumped into at Cenote Coffeehouse, has been complimented on the natural shape of her brows before. A quick pluck here and there to ward off the unibrow is all it takes, she says–“I guess I’m just lucky.” -
Ladies aren’t the only ones who have to maintain, of course–this gentleman confided that he plucks a stray now and again. Luckily, there’s less temptation for dudes to overpluck, so these magnificent brows aren’t endangered. -
Elizabeth Lay, assistant director at Ace Academy, says she lets nature take the lead and never goes to a salon. “My mom told me that Lucille Ball shaved off her eyebrows and they never grew back and that’s why she had to draw them on. That sufficiently terrified me into never, ever removing more than necessary.” -
Sima Thakkar of Good Indian Girl, a website and community forum for second-generation Indian women, knows from eyebrow maintenance–there’s a brow threading how-to video on her site. She gets hers done at a salon, but says you have to be super vigilant to avoid the high, skinny arch many stylists automatically give. -
Audrey Halm, an employee at Austin Books & Comics, does occasional plucking at home and lets her natural brow shape accent her face and eye shape.