Wednesday, 24 December 2008
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Guys Should NOT Pluck Their Eyebrows
This is a guest blog submitted by Chrischoi
Let's face it - for some reason guy's have horrible eyebrows. When God designed our bodies, he decided that eyebrows would be funky looking on guys. I mean, check out that actor Peter Gallagher:
i kid you not, first image search result picture. Epic lulz.But check that guy out - his eyebrows are like the costco of eyebrows.
Any event - there's a period of time in your life when you'll look in the mirror and actually wonder about them. If you stare at them too long, they even start to look funny no? Try it - go to your mirror, look at your eyebrows. It just looks out of place - like you're head is a mister potatoe head doll and some 3 year old put the arm piece in the eye socket.
Which brings me to this - I know guys who pluck their eyebrows. Now, back in early 2000, there was a name for this - metrosexuals. But lately that word started to fall off our daily vocabulary just like how movies go to die on TBS.
But is it me - or is it just weird when your friend admits that he plucks his eyebrows. For some reason, you pause when you hear that. I mean, i'm not altogether sure what to think - do I think more highly of you? Or do I think you're less of a man.
I know women like groomed guys, but just imagining you sitting in your bathroom, 4 inches from the mirror plucking away - it reminds me of Mr. Miagi (rest in peace) teaching karate kid Daniel Larusso to trim the bonsai tree with little itty bitty scissors. First you pluck the eyebrow, next it's gonna be wax the leg, then paint the nail. There's something emasculating about it. It's all a stone's throw away.
But like I said - a lot of women like groomed men. And i've heard countless times when people say "men should have eyebrows, not unibrows" But as we get older - you gotta understand. It's all about the unity thing. For example - when a guy grows a little facial hair, the first thing other guys ask is "do you connect?" - that means, the stache connects with the beard along side the mouth - for some reason, that's like a huge genetic accomplishment if you have that - you're the envy of all men.
Also, we all tried to get a 6 pack, and we instead unified all of them to form one huge 1 pack - that's the other unifying principle. So it connecting our eyebrows is, in ways, in our nature to want to do.
Bottomline - I'm torn - plucking eyebrows for guys - what do you think of it?
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Comments (55)
I think it's okay for guys to cut the unibrow into two, but trimming their eyebrows so they look perfectly...trimmed--that's just plain weird.
And I'm okay with manicures too. I mean, I don't do it deliberately myself, but my sister likes to mess with all her brothers' masculinity, aka painting our nails, among other things, and to be frank, I don't mind. My nails get to look...sparkly for once. It's a change.
@Shavanna@xanga - hahahahahaha yes!!!! one guy that i'm currently dating has a goatee that he does trim and maintain, but UGH! whenever we kiss or anything, it scratches and tickles and ewwwww. So for Christmas I bought him a really nice electric razor and a cheap bottle of shaving cream. Hopefully when we get back to school he'll have gotten the message :)
Guys should pluck their eyebrows, but not go overboard and get super girly thin ones.
i pluck my boyfriend's eyebrows. i love trimmed eyebrows. you don`t have to go overboard, just clean up a little. please!
by the way.. eyebrows (and nose) have a direct effect on how you look. the right shaping, shading, and thickness can make ugly into beautiful.
i dont mind but overly plucked looks gay, jake gyllenhaal looks much better with thick eyebrows but still a little tweezed. n stop saying pluck, you pluck a chicken.