Fashion
17 Unconventional Eyebrow Styles That Helped Me Embrace My Own Arches
Like fashion, beauty has its own set of trends that extend beyond spring lip colors and pastel nail polishes. Beauty trends even apply to the shape of your brows and lucky for me, strong eyebrows are making a comeback. As someone who is 100 percent Italian-American, strong eyebrows are really my only option. I couldn't be happier to see women and men with bushy brows be celebrated in fashion.
But I haven't always been so happy to embrace my fuller brows. As soon as a kid on the school bus told me that I had a mustache, my mom took me straight to the salon to get my eyebrows and lip waxed. I was only in fourth grade. And ever since, I've had a love-hate relationship with my brows. At the time, thinner arched brows were the trend and my brows had plans to stay full unless I wanted to be plucking or waxing everyday. My daily beauty routine maxes out at about 15 minutes so adding daily eyebrow maintenance wasn't gonna happen. So for years, I waxed my brows when necessary and tried to ignore the fact that I really didn't feel confident about them.
Over the past year, I've started keeping up more on makeup and beauty trends and I realized there's isn't just one right way to have a brow. Thin or thick, painted blue or covered in rhinestones, all brows are beautiful damnit! I've fallen in love with avant garde and unconventional brows created by talented makeup artists whose work really belongs in the MoMA.
14K Couture
When my friend first told me about makeup artist, Romero Jennings, I was in complete awe. He handcrafts metal eyelashes and brows for a truly one-of-a-kind look. Photo by Pino Gomez.
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Go For The Gold
Toronto-based MUA Sabrina Rinaldi crafted this stunning gold brow for model Kayla Clarke. The look was photographed by Alex Evans.
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Glitter Flames
These arched glitter flamed brows were posted by photographer Sian Egginton and crafted by makeup artist Alex Rosas.
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Say It Loud
Pat McGrath is widely renowned as the world’s most influential makeup artist. This throwback photo she posted answers the question of whether there is really anyone better than her.
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Chain Brows
Makeup artist Sarah Nicole Tanno is responsible for these chain brows posted by Lady Gaga. As a jewelry designer and metalsmith, I NEED to recreate this look.
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Feeling Floral
NYC makeup artist Charles Zambrano created these floral brows to explore the facets of femininity.
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The Beauty Of The Blend
Photographer GL Wood captures these beautiful blended brows by MUA Roque Cozzette who sells his own line of brushes.
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Pretty As A Peacock
I mistakenly thought Miss Fame was just another pretty face on RuPaul’s Drag Race until I did some digging and found out that Fame is responsible for many breathtaking makeup looks, including these amazing avant garde brows created for model Diandra Forrest.
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Broken Glass
Makeup artist Tia Deez literally broke a mirror and glued the pieces to her brows to create this look for the #100DaysofMakeup Challenge. Even if she does get seven years bad luck, it may be worth it.
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Rhinestone Away
The rhinestone brow is one of my favorite unconventional makeup looks, but beauty YouTuber Queen of Blending took the look one step further and eliminated brows altogether in favor of rhinestones.
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Paint Splatter
Remember when I said the eyebrows in this post belonged in the MoMA? This paint splatter look by painter Moises Ramirez and photographed by Pino Gomes is giving me all sorts of modern art feels.
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Extended Lashes
MUA Spooky Munster posted this extended lash look for his final post of the #100DaysofMakeup Challenge.
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Black Light Glam
Dutch beauty blogger Marly Van Den Bosch posted this photo based on a video tutorial she did for blacklight brows.
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Sad Flapper Alien Clown
MUA CatySueWho is one of my favorite makeup artists to follow on Instagram. When she created this look and called it “Sad Flapper Alien Clown” I discovered a newfound love for thin brows.
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Puffy Eyes
Whenever MUA Jacen Bowman works with photographer Ricky Codio, I know that I can expect to be wowed by the work of both these artists.
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Bubblegum Pop
Beauty blogger, plus model, and freelance makeup artist Alyssa Marie Artistry is one of those artists who makes me want to experiment more with my own look each time she posts. This pop art look is no exception.
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Pearl And Rhinestone
Tumblr blogger meduusalammikko features a brow FAQ on their blog. That’s how serious they are about eyebrows. These pearl and rhinestone brows paired with glitter hair is one of my favorite looks.
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