The shape of eyebrows as a topic of conversation has become a little obsessive between my group of friends. My natural brows being mostly invisible, I envy my friend who needs to merely pluck out what she doesn't want, while I have to color in what I do want. How do we choose the shape? Videos on youtube tell me I should hold a pencil up to my nose and measure out angles, but I just want to gather inspiration from silent film stars and color mine in with emotion and vulnerability. Check out how they all start high and slope down.
Corinne Griffith in Six Days, 1923
Helen Twelvetrees, 1929
Barbara La Marr, 1925
Clara Bow, 1928
Mary Astor in Don Juan, 1926
Pola Negri in Woman of the World, 1925
Norma Talmadge, 1927
All pictures are from Grand Illusions and A World Of Movies, both by Richard Lawton.
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