Bushy Eyebrows Are In! Unibrows Too!
Tell your eyebrows you love them. Go consult your workplace bathroom mirror, activate the camera feature on your smartphone, or gaze into a shard of broken glass on the street—find a way look at your brows, and offer them words of encouragement. You are perfect to me. I love you just the way you are. Any affirmation will do.
These words will comfort them, because up until now, men's eyebrows have been poked, plucked, and forced into submission by their rude and terrible owners. (That's you.) No longer is this the case. We are living in the Golden Age of Brow Acceptance—a place where a unibrowed man can be both a celebrated member of society and a successful athlete with very specific branding. A place where Max Minghella, a British actor with a face that is almost literally 10% eyebrow, can safely appear on a critically-acclaimed Hulu series without the media chastising him for his unruly caterpillars. This is 2017, and it's OK to love your eyebrows. Men's eyebrows are currently having a full-blown Renaissance. What a time to be alive!
If you're wont to ignore any and all grooming advice, please click out of this window, because it's coming right now: Free brow love is not an excuse to ditch product. This is GQ grooming, after all. If you want to get the most out of your brows, fantastic. Heed this:
Don't pluck. Never. Ever. Pluck. Your. Brows. Am I making myselfcrystalline clear? There's an old adage about how plucking your haircauses it to grow back thicker and more plentifully, which ishalf-true in that it's not arbitrary. Rather, plucking funks withthe growth patterns of your hair, which stymies new hairs frompopping up and might cause them to appear in random places. Ifyou've got one random long eyebrow hair, ask your barber to trim itcarefully. Otherwise, leave it be. It adds drama and flair.
Invest in a brow gel. Just like the hair on your head, the hair onyour forehead is liable to coagulate, curl, and basically dowhatever you don't want it to do. Want Max Minghella brows? Investin a gel like Make's Sculpting Lash and Brow Gel, which usesa spoolie wand to distribute gel to each and every brow hair so itstands tall. If you're extremely frugal, extremely confused, orextremely scared of putting a small pole anywhere near your eyes,your hair wax or pomade works just fine. Get a little on thefingertips, press upwards and outwards, and shape gently.
That's it. Really! You're done. Brows have never been easier.Welcome to the future.
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