{"id":4498,"date":"2019-04-21T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tilibeauty.co.uk\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2019-04-21T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:00:58","slug":"laura-jane-williams-a-love-letter-to-my-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/beauty-insider\/josie-e\/laura-jane-williams-a-love-letter-to-my-eyebrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Jane Williams: a love (hate) letter to my eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the final episode of Fleabag<\/em>, the priest gives a speech about love. In it, he says: “Love is awful. It\u2019s awful. It\u2019s painful. It\u2019s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do.” For some, he was talking about Fleabag herself. For others, he meant God. For me? He was talking about eyebrows.<\/p>\n My eyebrows and I have the most tempestuous dynamic I\u2019ve ever known. I watch other women and their eyebrows when I\u2019m at the supermarket, when being asked for my order at dinner, when I\u2019m on Instagram Stories. And I ask myself: why can\u2019t my eyebrows look like theirs?<\/p>\n Oh, eyebrows! I remember being eight years old and my mother telling me that when I was older, all I\u2019d need is to pluck three hairs from each side and I\u2019d have the perfect arc. When I was thirteen, then, I totally disregarded that advice and plucked with wild and gay abandon, ending up with two thin and uneven lines that have never recovered. For a while it was almost fashionable. Now it is a great source of shame. Cara Delevigne\u2019s style statement highlights everything I will never naturally be, and it hurts.<\/p>\n I am, categorically, not just the owner of eyebrows. I\u2019m in a relationship with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I\u2019ve been told eyebrows are sisters, not twins \u2013 but sometimes wonder if mine aren\u2019t simply related by marriage \u2013 step-siblings perhaps, and angry ones at that.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve tried it all: those kits with the templates that you use to put on powder (horribly ineffective), letting them grow out and then having them waxed (doesn\u2019t account for the way hair grows oddly above my eyebrow), sleeping on my back because apparently pressing one side of my face into the pillow as I snooze on my belly could be responsible for mis-shaping the left side of my face.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve had them micro-bladed (as close to perfect \u00a3300 will let you get, but temporary), I got a fringe so that they were covered, I own 32 eyebrow pencils. It\u2019s a lot of thought and effort. So much so that I am, categorically, not just the owner of eyebrows. I\u2019m in a relationship with them.<\/p>\n