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two strips of hair doing more emotional labor than your entire vocabulary.
means The arch of short hairs growing along the bony ridge above each eye, which helps shield it from sweat and quietly carries much of your facial expression.
from A plain Anglo-Saxon compound: "eye" (Old English ēage) plus "brow" (Old English brū), which meant the brow or eyelash itself. The word "brow" has deep Germanic roots and is possibly related to ancient words for "eyelash" or "eyebrow" across Indo-European languages — so for once the name is exactly what it says: the brow of the eye.
- sweat shield
- Curved shape diverts rain and sweat from eyes
- face recognition
- People spot faces faster by brows than eyes
- social signal
- The raised brow reads across every human culture
- slow regrowth
- Over-plucked hairs may never fully return
- frame job
- Symmetry here shapes perceived beauty more than features
frida kahlo's unibrow — mexican artist famous for her distinctive joined eyebrows in self-portraits, 1907-1954
cara delevingne's thick brows — british model whose bold full eyebrows became a defining beauty trend starting around 2012