They look painted on.

I've never seen brushed up around here but I'm sure women that age do it. Some of them are pretty, but not the super dark hairy brows. The drawn on shape of that eyebrow is still kind of popular and I wish it would go away. It screams "Fake!"

Jinx, I wish you knew how many times you make me laugh nearly every day!

I believe the process is called brow lamination and these swept up, full brows are very popular. The newest thing since microblading. I think it looks better when you get used to seeing it.

I think they look ridiculous! One day she will look back at the photos and laugh. Lots of makeup styles come and go. Remember in the 90s the almost black lip liner with the much lighter lipstick. There are many new makeup trends that I don't like. On youtube, some of my favorite makeup gurus get too carried away with the eyebrows...HAHA!

Not recently but they were HUGE with high school girls a few years ago. For obvious reasons this fad faded quickly. Now if they would get beyond the false eyelashes!!!!

They look ridiculous and unnatural. Ditto on the huge, thick false eyelashes.

I have to kind of laugh at some of the ladies I watch on youtube because maybe on video their makeup looks pretty but could you imagine seeing them in real life they would just have to look clownish! All that bronzer and all that highlighter and blush, way too thick of eyebrows, bright red lipstick and mile long false lashes! Sheesh!

Back in the day I had a classmate whose father took photos in NYC at high fashion events. This high school classmate got a 'make over by some then famous hair/makeup person. I am sure in that crowd at the fashion event she looked chic but in high school in Fargo ND...well time and place comes to mind on much of these make up decisions......

I like a healthy brow but lately some of these brows i’m seeing scare the bejeezus out of me. Between the strong brow and the fake lashes….this trend can’t go away soon enough

The girl in the photo almost has a unibrow...I think that's what looks the worst about it is they are too close together.

I brush my lashes straight up in order to trim them but I am not a fan of the sculpted shadowed brow look. Very popular here. I do appreciate a good makeup job but at my age a good make job means there's lots of makeup, but it looks completely natural.

I wish I'd left my natural brows mostly as they were for most of my life. They were always full (and blonde), but when I was 11 or 12, my aunt took me into the bathroom during a family gathering and shaved beneath and around them, thus setting me on a lifetime course of feeling like my natural brows just weren't right. I plucked to near oblivion when I was a teenager and young adult, and that's an act from which one's follicles do not recover. I've struggled from time to time with still feeling that I should be doing something to my brows, but these days just try to keep them neatened up as much as possible.

The trend, particularly as seen in social media, is something that makes one look like Cruella Deville in my opinion. Or maybe it just gives many women a harsh look. I think the before looks better here:

And this squared off trend that so many have done looks so odd to me.

So weird how brows ever became a thing to obsess over.

I agree with Ida that the dark, squared off, likely microbladed brows look very harsh. The cost and upkeep (every 4 to 6 weeks for brow lamination) is a real committment.

i use this to help my over-plucked, back in the day brows looking a bit more modern. There are less expensive options out there but I’m happy with this.

https://www.glossier.com/en-ca/products/boy-brow

Rebs does the airbrushed makeup look so the stark brows don't seem to go with it.

I had my brows done one time. A group had an evening at a salon and that was one of the services offered. Oh, it looked so good, opened up my face! Even DH noticed "something" looked brighter. And my brows aren't that dark or heavy to begin with.

I should pay more attention to my brows, rather than just tweezing the strays between them and under.

Where I get my brows waxed they do lamination and microblading. It costs a fortune and she's booked up all the time. She posts a lot of before and afters on her social media and most look good. I suspect more people do it than we think, it's just not as obvious as the photos posted above.

One of my English students is from Sudan and her brows are microbladed to perfection. She's beautiful already, with a very dark complexion and striking eyes, so the exquisite brows complete her look. She wears headscarves so her face is on prominent display. On her, it just works. On me, I'd look like a cartoon villain. I think the infrastructure has to be there to begin with. On many of us, though, we just do the best with whatever we are left to work with. 😆

I remember when brushed up was in with Brooke Shields...

I'm showing my age...and I HATE fake eye lashes. I went into the A T & T store. A casual setting and a cute gal had these really long lashes. Then a gal on the construction site....painting...fake lashes too....!!!! 👎

Okay, so I finally looked up microblading. I mean, I’ve heard of it, I just thought it was something else. And lamination, sounds like a combover for brows?

Lamination is a chemical process where the brows are basically straightened so you don't have any wild hairs LOL!! So when they are brushed up it is pretty obvious because they are so straight. I know someone who has her brows microbladed and while they look somewhat full, they are not fake looking. They look good on her.

I brush my brows somewhat upward. My brows have thinned and i need a bit of eyebrow pencil or gel, and the I brush them upwards, kind of at an angle.

If you do microblading, as your brow color changes over time, does the microblading fade to match? Or do you use brow color on the brows? (I suppose people still do that, I just equate it to my mother doing it in the ’60s)

I sometimes brush my brows somewhat up, too, but not the ”my brows grow straight up to the sky from the skin” look.

I am not sure how brushed up Brooke's eyebrows are but I have always loved them and she is such a beauty!!

@Jilly I agree, you make me laugh so much! Thanks for being such a wonderful comedian!

Some of those brows remind me of the Dick van Dyke episode where he uses an indelible laundry marker to paint a ”David Niven-ish” mustache on.

I ALWAYS notice brows and often compliment on them. My eyebrows were never thick but since hypothyroidism ”moved in” they thinned out at the ends. I was tempted to get the lamination done but haven’t as yet. I may start with just a ”lash lift” and see how that works.

I’m not a fan of the ”broom” type fake lashes nor the acrylic nails (stiletto & coffin shaped)

The younger generation have their own styles etc. just like I did back in the day. My father used to cringe at my teased up hair!

I dislike the fake lashes too. I know a beautiful young woman who continues to wear the long and thick kind that make her look like a drag queen. I love me some drag, but it's an overemphasis of the female form at its core, and I'm always surprised when women want that look on a regular basis. Sometimes it seems like more women have the fakes than don't, and I wonder if it's here to stay or will eventually run its course. There is a local newscaster that fascinates me, because I find myself not hearing a word she says, instead focusing on counting the number of times she bats those long, thick cow lashes during her segment. I can't imagine how she even manages to see out from the under the things. Surely when a beauty "enhancement" interferes with normal human function it becomes ridiculous -- like nails so long one can't possibly even adequately, um ... tend to bathroom business?

Not a fan of that style. I think they look unnatural and are moving into the uni-brow territory

Thump. I had no idea that microblading is tattooing.

This is the brow queen in Bham. I've never been to her, but DD1 goes religiously. Short rticle about Brow Rehab, with photos.

I go every month to get mine tinted and waxed. I have a slight arch, but I have never liked the very thin (of yesterday) or the fake looking eyebrows they do today. My eyebrows are straight anyway-and I do use a gel to comb them up slightly. Nothing like the fugly (LOL) eyebrows Reb's (whoever she is) wears.

Before Lattisse-I did wear the most "unfake" looking eyelashes I could find when going out to dinner, parties, events-stuff like that. My blondish and straight lashes are so happy now. I do wear a primer from Clinique-it's the best IMO, before mascara, which would really help anyone wanting to add some thickness and a little bit of length to their lashes-even without any Latisse or whichever growth enhancing product you use.

I read about microblading and was put off by the description. It’s not a permanent tattoo, the ink is just sort of painted over the holes made by the microblader. which are superficial and it only lasts a year or so because the ink is metabolized by your body, according to the article I read. The inks also fade to either a reddish brown or grayish black over time depending on the color used , sun exposure and other chemicals used on the face.

I was tinting my thinning (disappearing!) brows and looking into options, and tried a brush-on brow treatment Allison recommended in a thread here. I haven’t needed to tint my brows since i started using it and have decided to stop the enhancement right there 🙂

adding.. thank you again, Allison!

What about that model that has the unibrow that is supposedly pretty popular. Google search "model with a unibrow" and she will come up. It's hideous if you ask me but supposedly it's real and she doesn't want to change it. It actually looks fake to me.

This is the model to whom you are referring, Akgirl.

I’ll bet she tells people the lips are real, too.

Yes, that's her! If a person is concerned about being all natural, why inject the lips and likely bleach the hair too? I cannot imagine a woman having so much eyebrow hair and it looks as if they are colored black to stand out more. Looks like a Halloween costume! HA!

She intends this as a statement on body positivity and apparently gets a lot of negative feedback on the dyed brow and body enhancements. I guess everyone needs something to feel passionate about, and maybe her unusual look somehow helps others to embrace their own differences. Clearly it's media driven.

Kswl can you remind us of the brush-on treatment? I passed on that recommendation earlier but .... thinning continues ... and now I'd like to try it!

That’s in the medical description of microblading I read. The tiny holes are made by a multitiered implement with tiny needles that make small superficial holes. Some ink is taken up by the needles after being dipped in it and deposited in the holes. But it doesn’t fill all the holes as some are sites of pinpoint bleeding and those sites are then brushed over with ink to fill them in. My original post was unclear and I apologize. The ink is not really injected per se is my understanding; the holes are superficial and the ink deposits, i guess is a better word, in the holes, then it’s cleaned up and a pass can be made at the holes that didnt get filled in the first time. It’s apparently one of the most requested procedures everywhere, and the safety and results obviously depend on who’s wielding the microblading tool.

OMG! That is just...horrid! I had never seen her before.

This is such an interesting discussion. I have naturally fairly thick dark brows and I'm glad that I was never pressured into the severe plucking that was more fashionable a while ago (maybe 10 years ago?). I never apply any makeup or color to my brows, but I do a slightly angled upward brush on them and then use a finger on top to smooth the top back into a smooth curve. Sometimes if I don't give them a brush, the hairs get a little askew and giving them a quick brush seems to help them have a little more natural arch.

I had to google microblading and that sounds very interesting and like an interesting option for those that have lost too much eyebrow and want something that doesn't wash off daily.

At the same time, I do think genetically there are different types of eyebrows and many people with naturally light or delicate eyebrows look so lovely just as they are. I think the example @User posted is a good one where the woman looks lovely with her "before" natural eyebrows. When I googled microblading, this photo from a makeup line came up. To me this is a good example where the woman's natural delicate coloring and features work well with her natural delicate eyebrows (though they could use a quick brush to lay smooth).

Glad I decided to click on this thread this morning. I was impressed that we pretty much found something to agree on!

I have definitely noticed the feather duster broom eyelashes (especially on cashiers I encounter) but some of the others, I guess I am fortunate to say I haven't seen as much in person.

Threads like thiis gently suggest I might be living under a rock and that I might be old.

I really like the before and after prickly shows. Nice!

@salonva, ha! I live in a rural area and most of the clerks I'm running into are also old and don't sport fake lashes, injected lips or brushed up eyebrows. Yesterday, my grocery store checker, (colonoscopy era, to steal roarah's def ) confided that her back was killing her, lol. I didn't notice her eyebrows.