{"id":32949,"date":"2012-06-07T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T19:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=32949"},"modified":"2012-06-07T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T21:38:27","slug":"browbeaten-the-eyebrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/browbeaten-the-eyebrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Browbeaten: <em>The Eyebrow<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/EyebrowBook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32966\" title=\"EyebrowBook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/EyebrowBook-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/EyebrowBook-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/EyebrowBook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/EyebrowBook.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>My first \u201cboyfriend\u201d broke up with me at camp in a letter that read, \u201cYou look like the girl from <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em>\u2014I mean the ape she played, not the girl who played her.\u201d He meant Helena Bonham Carter in the Tim Burton version that had come out that summer. More specifically, he meant that for an eleven-year-old, I had very unruly and freakishly thick eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>Having kempt mine since that summer (on a necessarily frequent basis), I notice eyebrows more often than is normal; they bear special significance to me. Midway through Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s <em>Shadow of a Doubt<\/em>, Charlie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0BrMazGkqzg&amp;feature=relmfu.\" target=\"_blank\">confronts her uncle<\/a> about his awful secret life as a woman strangler. Sitting across from him at a seedy bar, she watches his hands painfully wringing a napkin, then she tells him all that she knows: wordlessly, she raises a single eyebrow. The plot hinges on that one thin line of hair. <!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraceKellyEyebrow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32969\" title=\"GraceKellyEyebrow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraceKellyEyebrow-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraceKellyEyebrow-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraceKellyEyebrow-991x1024.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So when I saw <em>The Eyebrow <\/em>in a $1 bargain bin, I had to have it. \u201cIn each period, the eyebrow, the chief indicator of emotion and expression on the face, has spoken louder than any word that has issued from the lips,\u201d it begins. The book, written in 2000 by a makeup artist, \u201ctraces\u201d the brow\u2019s history from ancient Egypt and Elizabethan England to <em>E.R<\/em>. and Ashley Judd. Perhaps inevitably, most of the chapters focus on how the eyebrow changed the faces of Hollywood starlets.<\/p>\n<p>Some obvious brows get name checked: Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor. But in addition to admiring icons, the brow enthusiast should never underestimate the transformative quality of newly shaped eyebrows. Madonna used their versatility to great effect, but even a classic beauty like Grace Kelly had, we learn, an entirely new look once she figured out what to do with hers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/EyebrowVamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32968\" title=\"EyebrowVamp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/EyebrowVamp-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a>Like anything else, eyebrows have been subject to trends, many of which look freakish now (see: \u201cthe vamp\u201d). The thick brows of the belle epoque gave way to the pin-thin jazz-age look, yo-yoing back to a strong diva arch in the fifties. Spreads on actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford\u2019s personal evolutions reminded me of their weary faces in <em>What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? <\/em>One can sense so much about the dynamic of these famed antagonists simply from their eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite chapter is titled \u201cThe Go-Go Years: 1980\u20131989.\u201d \u201cEverything about the eighties was generous and overblown,\u201d it reads, with pictures of Brooke Shields, Isabella Rossellini, and Kelly McGillis with brows in full force. One actress gets singled out for antagonistic-looking brows that, in her early years, used to almost bridge across her nose. Alongside the description is a full-page image of Helena Bonham Carter.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HelenaB-CEyebrow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32970 aligncenter\" title=\"HelenaB-CEyebrow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HelenaB-CEyebrow-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HelenaB-CEyebrow-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HelenaB-CEyebrow-970x1024.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first \u201cboyfriend\u201d broke up with me at camp in a letter that read, \u201cYou look like the girl from Planet of the Apes\u2014I mean the ape she played, not the girl who played her.\u201d He meant Helena Bonham Carter in the Tim Burton version that had come out that summer. 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