I remember my teen brow days only too well. My brows travelled across my forehead like a runway, not pausing for breath. I would not have known where to begin with a pair of tweezers, there was simply too much hair.
My friends had all read their copies of Jackie magazine and reported back on how one should shape their brows. I wasn’t convinced that they had a brow proof strategy, and I was right.
When I launched Blink in the early noughties, I addressed many of the casualties from those earlier careless teen days.
I had fortunately had the benefit of a heritage where eyebrows were (and still are) considered a vital asset that required nurturing from an early age.
I had my first threading experience, in Delhi at the age of thirteen and it felt like a coming-of-age ritual, when I turned from girl into adult.
In the prime of youth, brows are at their fullest and teens are at a time in their life where discovery and experimentation with beauty are heightened.
Brows are always the first victim of pluck happy teens, who left to their own device, will pluck merrily away.
Some experiments can be reversed like dying your hair but brows, while they bloom in the heady days of youth, also wither the more your pluck, the more you weaken the hair follicles and consequently growth.
With no strategy on shaping the brows, it is so easy to get pluck happy and while trying to even out both sides, the brows gradually diminish until sleek lines a la Lila Moss.
A youthful face can carry this off but at some point, those teens will want those brows back.
