I was ruminating on brows recently and noticed that for the first time in a long while, we, as a collective, don’t have a coherent brow trend. Sure, some people are trying to make thin brows happen, but we know better than that now. Then there’s the bleached-brow trend, which is mostly confined to Brooklyn. Now, everyone’s sort of in brow no-man’s-land, left to their own devices and routines. Curious if I was the only one seeing this, I convened my fellow Strategist beauty staffers to check in on their brow routines.
Crystal Martin: I don’t do anything with my brows anymore. I just let them do whatever they’re going to do. That’s been for quite some time. I’m not a tweezer. The last time I got my brows done was two years ago. I am considering letting someone touch my brows again. I don’t know what’s animating that, if it’s a broader thing.
Tembe Denton-Hurst: I am a creature of habit and so there’s only one person I let do my brows. Her name is Malikah. She did my brows for the first time when I was 20. I was working at Nordstrom in Garden City and she was a brow stylist at Anastasia Beverly Hills. I would get my eyebrows done with her after my shift. Then she went freelance and had a shop up in Harlem. It’s been almost two years since I’ve gotten them done. I would go to Malikah on a special occasion, but besides that, I’d rather use brow gel and brush them up.
