Alright. So I’m about to acknowledge the elephant in the country. Someone’s gotta do it already, and I’m taking one for the team.
Two words: Tattooed Eyebrows. We all breathed a sigh of relief as we bid farewell to decades of notoriously pin-thin over-plucked half-moons, little did we know we’d only be paving the way for these jumbo eye-staches? When did it suddenly become cool to have creepy caterpillars on your forehead? Dark, moist, ridiculously thick and worst of all, supernaturally defined and straight substitutes or deformed arches of what was once, hair.
I must have missed the memo, you know the one that incited these poor unsuspecting women to go out in flocks, shave off their eyebrows and replace them with absurd PERMANENTLY tattooed marks on their heads. I woke up one day and everywhere I looked there they were, red ones, gray ones, brownish-orange ones, and very very black ones. The Horror.
No tattooed eyebrows do not look natural. No matter how many times you ask or what ridiculous sum of money you paid for them. No matter what that beautician told you. They just don’t. And they never will. You’ve been punk’d.
Besides, the point of recreating a look is to emulate something that actually exists in the first place. I promise you, the last women that probably sported those things were living in caves and even they felt insecure about them when they discovered the mirror.
And what about when they peel ( yes, those things peel!) if it were up to me, it should be illegal for women to go out in public when they’re freshly inked and their new creatures are covered with this nasty coat of gunk.
I thought long and hard before writing this post. Because I thought of all the women that got them. That’s a lot of women to piss off. But you know what, they should have listened. They had done no justice to their once beautiful faces. You may tell me my opinion is uncalled for. Perhaps.
But there’s one thing I’m sure of, Tattooed eyebrows should be criminalized, if not for the women who wear them then at least think of the people who have to withstand the pain of looking at them. Because we all know that when you’re speaking to someone with tattooed eyebrows, you can’t look anywhere else but at those things. It’s all you can focus on. And you get caught so many times doing it. And you try and try to look away but you end up staring right at them the entire time.
So ladies, enough is enough, you can fight this, resist the urge to go in for that retouch session, let them go , and in a year or two, they will fade away like a far distant memory. And if you’re lucky no one will remember that you had the same facial expression for an entire year.
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Hear hear!
You are SO right!
I hate that i have to be nice to people that are getting that blegness on their face! What’s even worse is that these women judge women with body tattoos, myself included, pointing that body tattoos are hideous and ugly. Because having a flat icky eyebrow IS NOT! A3!
Tattooed eyebrows are a BIG no.
It is incomprehensible why some decide to pluck off and bare their eyebrows. Adding insult to injury is to replaced them with those ink injected tattoos.
To the rule, there is an exception: Cancer patients and survivor. It is the only plausible reason one would, as soon as it is done smoothly.
Those horrendous black or bluish patches are not a reason and should not be tolerated.
Beauty ain’t no crime, say no to crime.
Hahaha you’re the best!
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Thank you for the initiative Ivy, it had to be said!
hahahaha well said!!
Spot On!
True dat .? go.
they all look like from out of space and OLDER and scary!
I call them angry birds…
Epic! ahahah
I’m all in on this one!
Great article Ivy !! Just like all the rest of your posts…was looking forward to reading this one after the hype it generated on Twitter !! Good job !! Now let’s hope the message gets across !!
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A great article on the macabre practice of dehumanizing yourself written by Ivy of “Ivy Says”
what’s the difference between tattooed eyebrows and tattooed arms? Let the people be. It could be a beauty that we do not understand yet, don’t kill self expression.
Very courageous initiative! I totally agree with the horror we’re seeing every single day!
But what about woman born without a single hair on their forehead? What about woman who fought cancer and lost the smallest and thinnest hair of their face and head? Don’t they deserve to Try to look like the normal ones? Don’t judge people by their appearance or eyebrows, you never know the story hidden behind it.
Preach sister!
indeed! at last someone said it right, all the way, right!!! (Y)
Yvyyyyyyyy…. I just tattooed my eyebrows… kind of filling 🙁 od when I read the article I felt down as if I did a big mistake … mine where like 60z hippy dancer which I hate it!
hahaha so true!
Finally! Someone shares my pain! I was beginning to feel I was the only one who felt this way about it … It just makes me wonder don’t they have a mirror ??!
you go girl !! i call the ” ya 3akid al7ajibayni ” 😛
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I’m totally with you !
Well said sister!
do i still have time to sign this petition of yours :p loved your post! (if you’re wondering why now? coz i came across your article in special magazine and im extra sensitive to the subject ;)) i had an amateur tentative of writing something about the same subject coz im just traumatized by those !! it’s an old post but i guess u’ll have a good laugh, check it out if you have time: http://nammourette.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/icopy-therefore-iexist/
How did i just come across this !? Well said 🙂
Finally someone to denounce this social PLAGUE! Hats off
awesome! just the right amount of sarcasm
Funny blog! 🙂
I just want to notice that, it’s not that women just wake up one day and decide to pluck or shave their entire eyebrows off.. and start drawing them or getting them tatood.
My brows are not symmetric so I pluck them untill they are. Problem is that there is almost nothing left. So than I draw the rest to fill them up. But I am not a big fan of tattood eyebrows either… It looks a bit trashy..
But the shape is very important… and the color as you say. Just google ‘the perfect eyebrow’ and to those, I say yes… well done!
Greets from Holland.
Hahahaha totally agree!! Finally people that actually make sense! #AngryBirdsWasTheBestComment
A little late but I’m right there with ya!