
The history of beauty: everything you wanted to know
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Eyebrows - An Unusual Beauty Standard
i think of eyebrows as a beauty standard, or something that we aspire to change rapidly. An over plucked eyebrow can be a permanent thing and you've left with this permanent symbol of a time before on your face. So would you stick some mouse fur on to your eyebrows? I don't know but i imagine ten years later the bushy eyebrows would have ben back in fashion again. Of course it would. Because beauty standards are not meant to be achievable. They are not meant for permanence.
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