facial drama

Betsy and I had a great visit this weekend. We spent hours upon
hours happily chatting about any and everything. Plenty of time,
of course, was devoted to the discussion of political, religious and
social issues. Then, we moved on to more pressing and intriguing
topics, like eyebrows.


Can you believe there are those who still like to tweeze and pencil
their brows into that 1950's style raised arch? It's so severe and
brings to mind the Vampira look. Scary. My youngest sister tried to
dye hers at home once. The result was the woolly-caterpillar brow.
Equally as scary.

In the case of brow makeup, as we get older, perhaps less is more,
unless, of course, you are trying to achieve that John-Crawford-
Mommy-Dearest look. Eyebrows do set the stage as far as the face
is concerned, don't you think? The wrong look can be very misleading.


Take the case of poor Uncle Leo on Seinfeld. Remember that
hilarious episode where his eyebrows were singed off and Elaine
draws them on with a magic marker? He then visits his doctor, who
is convinced he has an anger problem. It really is all about the brows.


Just as bad, are the over-tweezed-Gloria-Swanson brows. They can
do just the polar opposite, as far as facial drama, by putting you in a
constant state of dazed, non-emotion. The "I don't have much going
on upstairs" look is not always so attractive, either.


Have you ever been forced to participate in brow intervention?
Someone near and dear to you has a severe case of tadpole brow?
Or maybe even a case of the dreaded unibrow? It's not always easy,
but our loved ones must be helped. WT, left to his own devices,
develops a sorry case of Hugh-Griffith-Arab-sheik-Ben-Hur brows.
He tells me he wants to wax, twist them and start a trend. Well,
we'll see about that.