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When I met Daniel Chavez the other week, he let me in on a few other trends apart from his no-blush-no-bronzer mantra for autumn 09. One of the ones I liked the most was his pronouncement about eyebrows. “This season,” he said, “it looks great to exaggerate the brow slightly.” Smashbox have a couple of really good bits for brows but his advice wasn’t about how to fill a sparse brow in or create a good shape. Nope, right now, Daniel reckons we should be slightly exaggerating the brow out and down towards the ear.
The obvious inspiration here are 40s stars of the silver screen like Ava Gardner and Vivien Leigh, both of whom had, quite frankly, spectacular brows. You could also look to Dita Von Please-get-a-new-look-with-the-quickness, but I think I’ll take my cues from the source material.
Anyway, I’ve been trying this out with my Clarins brow kit (which I think I love more than life itself) and in addition to elongating my brow line out a smidgen, I’ve been experimenting with darkening them up too. I’d never really have done this much before, preferring to just tidy them a little with a bit of wax, but I am loving the drama of a dark, sharply defined brow, I must admit. It’s certainly an antidote to the no-brow thing we saw earlier in the season, too.
It’s a firm thumbs up from me on the whole retro-brow-thing, but if you want to browse (groan) some more posts on brows, then here’re a few to get you started:
- How to powder your brows
- The Best (and Worst) Celeb Eyebrows
- Clarins Eyebrow Kit Pro: fantastic
- Estee Lauder Brow Bar at Brown Thomas rocks
- Just Browsing: Lash Lounge By Shavata at Harvey Nichols
- Matching the Carpet to the Pelmet: The Perils of Eyebrow Dyeing
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I think Gerallldine was trying her best to go for this look last night!!
i don’t like this roundy eyebrow look! they look too high!
haha roundy brows won’t come back in - they won’t work with botox!
Is anyone else mad curious to know exactly what their beauty routines were? Like what products they used, and how they applied them…
How beautiful is Ava Gardner though? Love how glamourous the 40s were - no pap shots of them crawling knickerless and legless out of the back of a limo.
Not much of a fan of the roundy brows, but how beautiful is Vivien Leigh?! - Divine!
aw.. love the 40’s! Vivien Leigh is stunning! hurray for the 40’s brow! thanks girls!