Whenever you cease to consider it, eyebrows are fairly dang bizarre. On our in any other case easy higher faces, we’ve obtained these two strips of hair that sit above our eyeballs.
One concept as to why we now have eyebrows is that they preserve rain and sweat from working into our eyes. However their major function appears to be for communication; they convey the subtleties of our feelings. If eyes are the home windows to the soul, eyebrows are the signposts to our temper.
As for my very own eyebrows, I’ve obtained fairly the set of thick and furry ones. Kate and my youngsters say that my brows, coupled with my Roman nostril and critical demeanor, make me resemble Sam the Eagle from the Muppets. I’ll take that. Sam the Eagle has gravitas!
My thick, distinguished eyebrows appears to be a particular characteristic of my mother’s aspect of the household. A number of years in the past we went to a household reunion the place Kate obtained to satisfy my aunts, uncles, and cousins. She noticed that all of us sported the identical characteristically bushy over-eye fur. Should be a dominant gene.
I by no means needed to preserve my thick eyebrows that a lot in my youth, however now that I’m in center age, they will get fairly gnarly. As you become older, long-term publicity to hormones causes the follicles on your eyebrows, in addition to these for nostril and ear hair, to develop thicker and longer.
These days, if I don’t care for my eyebrows, as an alternative of trying distinguished, they get to trying like like massive, furry, unpleasant caterpillars. Consequently, I’ve needed to begin commonly trimming my brows.
In case your eyebrows might equally use a trim, right here to indicate us how its executed is none apart from Sam the Eagle. It was solely correct that he’d be our information in the best way of distinguished, dignified, well-groomed brows.
Illustration by Ted Slampyak
