Ever SO Plush!: The world of BROWS

Hey Guys and Dolls!!!! We have any classic movie lovers out there??

Yess??!! ... No??!!

Well if you are a classic movie lover, you should be very familiar with the film, "Imitation of Life"

What an amazing film! This is a MAJOR tear jerker as well. If you haven't seen it already, you should DEFINITELY check it out. Be sure to have a TON of tissue around along with some apologies ready to be released to whomever you may need to reconcile with. :-)

Okay! So my mom introduced me to this film years ago and it wasn't until I was a little older that I'd learned that the version with Lana Turner was NOT the origonal version of the film. Yes yes, this was a remake! So like the movie buff I am I immediatley went on a search for the original, and I FOUND it!

It was really really good just like the first one, yet different. I appreciated them both for different reasons. One day I was randomly looking at a double disc movie special of Imitation of Life that I had purchased I noticed something ...

Do you see it?! ... I do!!

THOSE

BROOWWSSSSSS

Look how different they are!

LEFT side 1934; RIGHT side 1959!

This made me very interested in the evolution of eyebrows! Check out what I found!!

1920's

Brows were completely tweezed, then penciled in, to get the thinly arched brows of then "it" girl, Clara Bow (as they called her).

The Roaring 1920′s – Clara Bow, who was the star of silent movies, had eyebrows that allowed her to express emotions well on camera.

The eyebrows would often be completely shaved off and drawn back on with a grease pencil to achieve the thinnest and neatest brows.

Here are some more brows of the 20's

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In honor of Black History Month lets take a moment to celebrate and educate on the beautiful
Josephine Baker:

Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she became a citizen of France in 1937. Fluent in both English and French, Baker became an international musical and political icon. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess".

Baker was the first African-American female to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934), to integrate an American concert hall,^[3] and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down),^[4] for assisting the French Resistance during World War II,^[5] and for receiving the French military honor, the Croix de guerre. ( More info)


Queen Josephine herself

Ms. Baker again

I wonder how often they had to tweeze!

1930's

By this time brows were beginning to change- but only a little. They remained thin, but more so no longer a straight line. The 30's introduced a high arch brow more rounded instead. The arch was often times exaggerated and extended past the natural length of a brow.

Lets take a look down the 1930's lane

Jean Harlow

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford, once more ( she looks totally different here)

1940's

"The 1940’s saw eyebrows develop a much softer, feminine look. Like the previous decade, eyebrows still had a high arch, but were more rounded and had a more natural thickness.

eyebrows were kept at a more natural thickness with arches sharper than that of the 30's. "

Lauren Bacall

Lena Horne

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Ms. Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.^[1]
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. (More Info)

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Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake, bedroom eyes version! ;-) lol

Again the beautiful Lena Horne

Naomi Sims

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Naomi Ruth Sims (March 30, 1948 – August 1, 2009) was an African American model, businesswoman and author,^[1] who is widely credited as being the first African American supermodel. She became one of the first successful black models while still in her teens, and achieved worldwide recognition from the late 1960s into the early 1970s, appearing on the covers of prestigious fashion and popular magazines. The New York Times wrote that (her) "appearance as the first black model on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal in November 1968 was a consummate moment of the Black is Beautiful movement".^[1]^[3] She also appeared on the cover of the October 17, 1969 issue of Life magazine.^[1] This was the first African American model on the cover of the magazine. The images from the 1967 New York Times fashion magazine cover and the 1969 Life magazine cover were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in an exhibition entitled The Model as Muse.^[1]^[4](More Info)

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1950's

By the 1950’s the thin eyebrows were long gone, and women were going for a fuller, more natural looking eyebrow. Audrey Hepburn is the perfect example of the thicker brow, which was often filled in using pencil to appear darker.

The 50's brows still had defined arches and a long shape. Below are some more 50's beauties

The jaw dropping Dorothy Dandridge

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Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer, and was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.^[3] She performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater.
After several minor bit parts in films, Dandridge landed her first noted film role in Tarzan's Peril (starring Lex Barker), in 1951. Dandridge won her first starring role in 1953, playing a teacher in a low-budget film with a nearly all-black cast, Bright Road, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In 1954, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones, and in 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. In 1999, she was the subject of the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry as Dandridge. She has been recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Dandridge was married and divorced twice, first to dancer and entertainer Harold Nicholas (the father of her daughter, Harolyn Suzanne) and then to Jack Denison. She died at age 42.^{[4](More Info)}