Eyebrows

People often pretend they don’t care about eyebrows or genuinely don’t realize they care about eyebrows.

You can tell that something is off: faces ridden with untamed grasses or dirt specks or black worms.

But unless you’ve had experience scrutinizing brows, it might not register right away.

Call me a brow scrutinizer.

And not only because I have a plucking addiction. (Elle has a lovely overview. WikiHow has a horrendous one.)

Rather, it is a blatantly perfectionist art where mistakes have overt consequences. Too thin, too thick, too arched, too wide, too stark, too rushed, and the untrained eye will notice that ‘something is off.’ And when it’s just right, they go unnoticed. Great things are like that; no matter what it really takes, they look easy, seamless, and simple.