unpopular opinion: brow trends need to die. Not everyone has the same face structure or shape, so not everyone will looks good, do your brows according to the face you have and they will always be on point.
I agree. I never liked the overly thin brows of the 70s, 90s, or the HD overly thick brows of today. You're right, if you enhance what you have naturally, you'll always look sharp.
I have a coworker who is in her late 40s. She did the skinny brow thing from the mid 90s through the early to mid 00s. Now she has pretty much no eyebrows. She's tried different brow products to enhance what she has, but now she's going through menopause and she just sweats any brow products right off. She's looking into getting brow tattoos now.
I have very thick brows (like Roberts). After being ridiculed for them in the 90s, I decided to carve them out by carefully shaving the edges instead of waxing/plucking and then using concealer to cover the bluish tint. I also used heavy gel to pinch them together into a thin shape. Guess what? I still have my full, bushy brows.
That's not the case for everyone. I plucked mine thin in the early 80's. Kept them like that for almost 20 years. When I decided to let them grow back they did. Right back to what they looked like before my 1st pluck. I tried threading once. Didn't like how they looked. I let them grow back again which they did. 15 yrs later/older and I now have 2 sparse areas but they're not that noticeable to where I have to use anything to fill them in if I don't want to... 🤷♀️
My grandmother who was born in 1918 warned me like crazy about plucking my eye brows when this was a thing in the 90s. She had virtually no brows from going through a plucking trend when she was young. I listened to her thankfully and never did more than a small amount of plucking. She's been gone for 20 years now and would be warning my daughter about plucking her brows if she was still with us. So listen to your moms and aunties and your future brows will thank you! And I'll be the warning auntie on behalf of my grandmother, DON'T OVER PLUCK!
Oh gosh that’s right! There was a huge trend in the 40’s? I believe that she would have lived through! Wow that’s so cool! May she Rest In Peace for saving the rest of us from the No brow mistake ❤️😂
I’m a young millenial who was too young to make it to the first trend and old enough to know better this time around 😮💨 I tell ppl to just shave instead of pluck, at least it grows back then
As a doctor, hearing you call your brow bone/eye socket an eye hole has me in stitches! Love your videos and the help with finding a creative outlet through make-up
Don’t do the skinny brow trend! They never grow back the same! Robert is 100% correct. Every single one of my friends that did the skinny brows in the early 2000’s now have to draw them on everyday because they never came back.
@@deniseschnurr1765I wish I would have started with brow serum sooner. My brows have grown more in a month than the previous 5 years or so. The new hairs are more sparse, but salvageable with brow powder and a nice brow gel. I thought they would never come back
Killed my brows in the early 2000s and I’ve never forgiven myself 😭😭😭 Got microblading eight years ago and it’s been a lifesaver (I also have quite oily skin and brow products always melted off).
Now I am grateful for the thick Italian eyebrows I hated for so many years. It was just way too much work to make them really thin or I would be among the millennials grieving their dearly departed eyebrows 😂 I am happy with the amount of brow I was spared by laziness. Got rid of the unibrow and it won't ever be missed. (Sorry Frida)
My hairdresser for my wedding finished my hair with that glitter spray I was mortified! But too late there was nothing I could do to get rid of it. 😫 I was too polite and nervous to say anything. Luckily it didn’t seem to show in our photos.
I’m so sorry! I would NEVER do that to a bride, communication and consent is everything. That’s one reason trials aren’t so important, if they want glitter I will only do it in stages. I complete the look without sparkle and take pictures, then add shimmer or sparkle and do photos again. It’s great to see how it will look on the day, they often decline even when they came in asking for it. I have a super fine shimmer powder I use on flower girls shoulders, they love it! Moms and girls often argue about makeup at young ages, but allowing them a few subtle products keeps mom and young lady both happy.😊
Butterfly hair clips (now being sold on Etsy as vintage hair accessory ), feel like I've seen a bit of resurgence of frosted eyeshadow,definitely squeezy tube lip gloss especially fruit scented one and the biggest sin of all times, low rise jeans
I had a bad brow waxing experience in the early 2000's and lost the outer ½ of one of my already thin brows. I tweezed out the other side to "make them even" and drew in full on Cruella DeVille brows for ages while they grew back in. I swore i was the absolute coolest thing walking at the time!
I knew a girl who did this in the 90s and she always wore black lip liner and gold lipstick and I used to think it was the classiest thing I’ve ever seen !
Unpopular opinion: Powder foundation looks gorgeus on super oily people if the skin is well prepped, the powder is not thick and the amount + application technique/tool are the right ones. When it settles, it blends with the natural oil and doesn' t look Marie Antoinette at all. Also, touching up is easier than a matte fluid foundation. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
Everyone is agreeing not to overpluck your eyebrows (I'm a victim of it so I agree too) but I have to absolutely comPLETEly 100% UTTERLY agree, don't get a credit card when your 18!!
I was an emerging teen in the 70’s and the thin thin brows were the rage. I so regret the constant plucking I did! I have nice brows now but it’s a lot of years later! Love the blue Robert!
Same! I plucked mine really thin before knowing I could possibly lose my thick eyebrows, it took me about 12 years to grow them back. I simply stopped messing with them, brushed them often and did not pluck one eyebrow! Glad they grew back!
@@Mel_T.s same, mine are super light in color as well. I look blank. I haven’t tweezed or waxed in 2 years now with the exception of the wild straggler here and there. They are finally starting to fill in a little bit.
I naturally have extremely fine, fair brows. I’ve been praying for YEARS for thin brows to come back into fashion, it’s so much more attainable for me 😅
So glad for the skinnier brows trend. I'm a woman with naturally heavy eyelids and a thick brow makes me look miserable and kind of like The Grinch or Angry Birds. I don't make them super skinny but a cleaned up arch and tails instantly make me look younger and more feminine, which is what I like.
Who cares if they are trendy? If skinny brows suit you and make you look and feel better, just do it! Why are people such slaves to trends? Just because some Kardashian does something doesn't make a thing good, it's insanity to me.
Yeah that's the thing about "trends" for features that are actually structural. Brows should be whatever makes you feel the best about your face, same goes for idiotic trends like "big butts vs small butts", the very idea of a trend doesn't make sense for these features
Me too! I decided to try them out for a 90s look that I did once and was shocked by how much more space I had on my eyes for makeup and how lifted my face looked.
lets do it you guys. lets start making influencer style videos advertising how short and cute our lashes look. if we word it right ppl might jump on the "trend" 🤔
5:23 The orbital socket or bone. There’s seven of them and the top one is called the frontal bone 💀 EDIT: I see the darker lip liner with light lipstick coming back with the addition of over lining the lips. In the early 2000s I went to the MAC counter and the lady did my lips with Mahagony and filling it in with a light neutral lipstick and my boyfriend at the time (we grew up in Los Angeles so it was the thing to do in some cultures so please keep that in mind) said “She looks like a Chola.” The MAC lady was visibly upset but that’s what we were used to seeing at that time.
An old trend that I've been using over 10 years it's bleached brows ❤️ I love how it looks on me, makes my face "exotic" and fun, specially when I have small little bangs, I feel like a supermodel
Honestly, I'm convinced this is one of those situations where, like, three people have made the switch to thin brows and blasted "OMG SKINNY BROWS ARE BACK!???" all over the place, and media outlets and tiktok just ran with it. Maybe a small handful of people are ACTUALLY participating, while everyone else is on the sidelines like "yeah, no." and watching the chaos ensue. Lol I've never liked skinny brows, anyway. Trend or not, only certain people look good with them, imo (usually those with naturally thin brows or people with small faces who don't want to be overpowered by their brows, for instance).
Full brows especially straight shape make a face much more youthful and cute. Just look at Korean or Chinese actors. I am sticking to my full i want to look younger, thank you very much.
Thank GOD for digital age drag queens for making the brow covering technique more accessible. If I wanted those Pam Anderson brows I could do it without shaving anything off.
I love glitter, but you are exactly right as to why you have to be careful where, how, and when you use it. It's also why I personally tend to things like glitter over liner, using tones that vibe well with skin as accents, etc. It can go really wrong really fast.
I loved the Maybelline mousse concealer, and I lost my shut when it was discontinued. you couldn’t use the foundation to double up as concealer. it was its own magical thing.
It’s so funny when you call yourself an “old man”. 😂 You have great advice, but you’re just so young and lovely! I’m 47 and truly believe the 40’s have been the best! 30’s are good, too, but it just gets better, you get more secure with yourself and your money…embrace it! You’re amazing & young. (You don’t look anywhere near your age, btw.) And with my new Tretinoin prescription, I’ll be “back to my 30’s soon”. Lol! Your brother will know more about that, of course. We love you so much, Robert! You look amazing today, as always.
Eek really? I have hooded eyes. I get my brows waxed roughly every 6 weeks. I’m early 30s now and want to retain my youth! Any advice? Should I pluck between waxes so I go less frequently?
@@ginkel23 yeah I’m the same early 30’s. I would say try gently pluck whilst holding the skin firm. A good threading tech will ask you to hold your skin firm whilst they thread. The less trauma around the eye area the better. I will say though every 6 weeks is possibly ok, I have some ladies that come every 2 weeks wanting a fresh wax, and I’d say maybe just let me tidy them with the tweezers instead. It totally depends on your skin type and your brow thickness. Myself- I have super dry, thin skin and thin brows, so I can afford to wait. I know this is different for those with oily skin who’s brows grow super thick- which is a blessing as far as I’m concerned but can be a curse too. But definitely the less trauma around the eye area the better and waxing is a real trauma- especially if the tech isn’t taking the skin type into account. No fault of their own- it wasn’t something that was taught on my course it’s just an observation over the years. I hope that makes sense xx
I’m fairly certain we’ve all been traumatized by our experience with the dream matte mousse..no need to relive it and traumatize ourselves all over again 🤦🏻♀️🤣
@@ashleybrooke5199 ✋️ I relate strongly. My skin managed to get both dry and oily with the dream matte mousse, while also being a particularly sickly shade of jaundiced
I just have to say, I really enjoy your lighting setup. The green and the pink make it look like you have colorful contour, it's like makeup without makeup. Great video as always 🙏
Glitter is my jam!!! I wear it over my highlighter at work....I use Glitter glue or the gel, and just put on the tiniest amount. I always get so many compliments. I'm a nurse so it helps me stand out slightly in a sea of blond ponytails, blue scrubs, and face masks. Again...I'm not going crazy with it. It's very subtle/light.
I have a very strong opinion about brows 😅. Screw the trends & go with the style of brow that compliments your facial features & that you feel beautiful with😊.
I’m so unfashionable 🤦🏻♀️😂🤣 I’ve always had reasonably thin brows. I do pluck mine and cut them a bit. So, I’m kind of glad this is coming back as Ive never managed to like the huge brow look of the last few years… I also love a bit of glitter 😕😂
Ask me about over plucking! I was a teenager in the 90s and let me tell you, they do not come back no matter what. My mom told me to stop, that I would regret it, but I was like pfft what do you know? This is how we wear them now....& Now I rarely even wear makeup except my brows... I have to do them. I've gotten amazing at it, they look very natural, but it's very time consuming to get them the way I do. I use a minimum of 4 pencils and a clear gel to hold them in place & prevent smudging.
As someone who literally RUINED their brows for a very long time due to following the trend first in the 70's, and then because I didn't learn my lesson from that disaster, did it again in the 90's: Please, people, DON'T do it!!! Mine have recovered due to using a little bit of castor oil on a q-tip each night for a while, but not everyone's did.
Eye socket 😉 My babysitter, who I kept seeing when I was beyond in my nappies, grew up in the sixties and warned me not to pluck my brows. I'm still thankfull I listen to her advice since my brows aren't very full to begin with.
I’m glad I was a geek (and still am) back in the 90s, and didn’t blindly follow all trends. I did try plucking my brows a little, but panicked after a couple of hairs and figured it was best to leave them alone. Older me is thankful now 😁
I'm the same age as you and almost knew exactly where this whole video was going. I kept my thinner brows but let them get horribly bushy because I can't afford the upkeep and I discovered plucking my eyebrows makes me sneeze. I have a chunk that will never grow back on the right! The monthly fresh feeling after my brows have been waxed is amazing and I definitely recommend keeping it in the hands of the professionals. I shaved my brows once and eyebrow stubble is not sexy.
I genuinely love the apples of cheeks blush. I like doe eyes right now more than fox too, and bronzer at back of jaw instead of that obvious streak across the bone. The round, young plump trends looks very cute on a lot of people. And round chubby cheeks and bright eyes are just as attractive as a snatched face and fox eyes. Love to see the trend but I do hope people won't stray from what just works for their face.
Your eye makeup is AMAZING! I love the blue and white combo. Also, I recently gave in and bought the Sigma eye primer…I have never used eye primer before….omg it is a game changer! Thank you for influencing me lol I love both you and your brother’s videos, and your podcast! They bring me so much joy 💗
Same! I remember Brooke’s brows and never fell into the 90’s ultra-thin brow trend. My best friend (then and now) has all the brow regrets. Funny story, my son had to have a minor heart surgery at age 13 in 2008. My friend and I got the message that the skinny brow ship had long sailed when he announced to her, as he was coming out of anesthesia fog, “You should let your brows grow out more. You should do them more like her,” indicating his nurse. She laughed and said she’d take his advice under consideration. That was the first time we had ever heard him give anyone any personal grooming advice and was quite unexpected. Anyway, all trends come and go. Glad I never did any one of them permanently.
Dream Matte Mousse... **shudders** I had an aunt who SWORE we were the same color and her mousse would work for me. She is chocolate with *Strong* red undertones. I am milk chocolate with Yellow-Peach undertones. I looked like a burnt pumpkin.
I didn't get in on the 90s brow, glitter or blush trends back in the day. But the mousse foundation was a horror show. Having epic oily skin, trying ANYTHING to cover acne and mattify. And those companies really tried it. You were giving me flashback nightmares of texture (not good) enhancing, oxidizing( that spray tan comment), separating foundations. I went back to Clinique, spent the extra 4 dollars and never looked at mousse foundation again. Phew!
Your eyeshadow looks amazing! What a beautiful blue! Thank you for the tips. I am 50 and a victim of the skinny brow overplucking. I wish I knew then what I know now!
I absolutely love the one colour cool-toned eyeshadow look from the early 2000s, like pale lilac. I’ve been hating the warm-toned extremely sculpted cut crease that everyone has been doing for the last ten years.
@@Monicalala I’ve just never liked that look. It’s so 80s. I’m 45 so I’ve seen makeup trends come and go and that one just reminds me of old 80s soap stars, and Cher before she got old and fabulous, when she was young and trendy.
Warm eyeshadow makes me look off at best, and incredibly ill at worst, and hooded eyes hide even the boldest wing, so I'm fully guilty of preferring a simple single shadow taupe look. I never considered the fact it might even look outdated 😂
I don't like the red/orange/yellow shadows at all. I have blue eyes and light skin and those colors look awful on me. It's only fairly recently that I decided some shades of brown were ok. So, I'm hoping for the pretty cool tones to dominate for several years now.
*Supraorbitalis* 😉 This is the one you' re talking about. Aka Brows' Homeland. When someone shaves the brows completely, it' s crazy how cringey and scary it is to see this area naked. It turns us into a living 💀. Even if overplucked brows don' t have 5 o' clock shade you still can perfectly tell where it used to be covered by hair because bone structure and brow shape don' t match. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
During my HS senior prom the make-up artist that did my make-up put brow products before shaving my brows. So after washing all those make-up, I was horrified almost all my brow hair were gone. Thank god it grows back.
These kids don’t understand the skinny brow effect! I wish someone told me brows stop growing back as you get older and my brows never fully recovered! Being a teen in the late 90’s early 2000’s really was tough! 🤣🤣🤣
You know what, I’m super stoked that skinny brows are coming back I have a natural skinny short brow. Sorry not sorry, I’ve been waiting for this for this trend to come back for almost 20 years!
I’ve been doing my brows pretty skinny for the past 5 or 6 years and I personally think it makes me look so much prettier. I’m talking thin like half of my natural brow thickness or more. My eyebrows used to be HUGE, and I hated it so I think that’s why I’ve loved skinny brows for so many years! I do hate the “5 o clock shadow” effect though 😂 it’s rough.
I did the whole thin eyebrow thing in the 90’s and 00’s. I’m 38 now and it took me YEARS to grow them out to get the shape I wanted. I don’t really follow the brow trends anymore though. I pluck mine to suit my face shape and keep them brushed, and only filled in when I’m doing glam looks. Also, the bony area surrounding the eye is called the orbital socket, but it’s made up of 7 different bones and I don’t know their individual names lol. Fun facts 🤷🏽♀️ btw I love your videos! Thanks for all the content ❤️
I tweezed all my brows off as a teen back in 2003 and have been drawing them on pencil thin since then, I personally love the look. Trends are trends but I think everyone should look the way they want to look despite the current "trends".
That “new” iteration of the skinny brow is just how my brow grows naturally lol. Yay for me! I had an internal debate when the full brows came back in about wether or not I was going to fully participate. Like, was I going to get serums and spend a lot of time fiddling with my brows? I was a teen in the 90’s and I already have nicely shaped but thinner brows so I never paid attention to my brows. What happened with fuller brows coming in was that I DID pay attention to them and I started subtly filling them in a bit. Wow. Totally revolutionized my face. Seriously. We say “it changed my life” ridiculously but this one REALLY changed my face in a way no other makeup technique has ever done. No cat eye, no smoky eye, no contouring … nope. The thing my face was missing was just a wee bit more contrast through my brows. Anyhow…. What am I blathering on about? It’s that I am way too old now to jump on every trend and they are coming and going so quickly, I think what’s happening is that anything goes. And I love it. So if something useful for me comes out of a current trend, fantastic. Thank you very much. I’ll incorporate that and happily leave the rest. And if it works for me, it’s going to be with me probably indefinitely. These rapid trend cycles have actually freed me from following trends. An unintended consequence on behalf of the people trying to make money off of us, but I sense this is what is emerging. A lot of us are so over the whole notion of being on trend because we are EXHAUSTED and we are onto it now. If you’re not sure you want to opt in to a trend, no worries. Take your time and think it through for a bit because it will be gone in a few months and back again in a year and you can just hop on that train then 😆
You are so right!!! I was a teenager in the 90s and I plucked the absolute shit out of my brows and they’ve never come back! No I’m stuck with this skinny brow 🫣😳😩
I knew it! I knew the first one would be skinny brows! Kiddos, listen to Robert and to this straggly-browed 45-year-old and don’t pluck the hell out of your brows 😫
@@RobertWelsh Since so many of us are loving your eye look, could you share with us what products you used? It seems to me that the white eyeshadow was applied wet. So gorgeous!
As a younger person tht has been thinking about plucking their eyebrows, this showing up in my recommended felt targeted You've convinced me not to do it thank you 😓
I must be an exception, my brows always grow back in bushy AF and I've been plucking/waxing for 16ish years. My look weird tho because half are blond and half are black. Edit- I've never followed a brow "trend" but younger me sure as hell didn't know wtf I was doing and I just tried and failed to make the look good lol. Now I just do what I like and for the last several years I've been into super defined, not too thick, not to thin but definitely on the thinner side especially here recently. Unfortunately to make my brows look the way I want (and to make them even, they are naturally wonky) I have to pluck a lot. But they grow back in fast.
So true about the over-plucking. I'm a victim, unfortunately. And my brows are blonde so they're already hard to see as it is, and a lot of the new hairs are coming in white.
Men's beard dye. Be very very careful, but it'll tint your brows faster and better than trying to use "brow dye" or haircolor. It's the only thing that sticks on my blonde/white eyebrows.
meanwhile I have 100% transparent brows made up of like 10 hairs each 🥲 I welcome the skinny brow trend finally my time to shine. playing with makeup is one thing, it washes right off, but I agree certain other things should probably just be left the way nature intended.
Yeah I was a teen in the 90s and I survived with my brows intact because I didn't particularly care at that time about brows, but my oldest sister still has the teensy skinny brows from that time and they're never coming back.
Something I think is interesting about skinny brows in the 90s is that it partly became a trend because of Kevyn Aucoin’s massive influence at the time. He did a lot of skinny brows, even causing a bit of a panic with Christy Turlington’s management team when he tweezed her brows super thin. And he himself was inspired by the brow shape popular in the 30s and specifically Marlene Dietrich. So what goes around comes around…and around and around
Glitter Trend: In the 90s I had a glitter hair spray from Calvin Klein in the Obsession scent. Yikes. Anyway, it was actually pretty nice, not super glittery.
Glitter. Glitter never left me. I will forever love glitter. Sometimes I see it on my husband and I'm like omg! Why do you have glitter on you? And he's like because you always have glitter on. Just to be silly. Blush on the apples of my cheeks, I know it's not for me. Draping blush works best for me or like layered under my highlight, outside corner of my lower lash line. And I too will applaud your eyeshadow. I mean we can't be surprised by it. It's just beautiful 😍
I definitely get what your talking about seeing the brow bone when people over pluck or change natural brow shape or raise the placement of brows. I am glad skinny brows are back in not because I think they look better but because I have skinny brows from plucking them starting when I was like 12. My brows when I were a child were way thicker.
Something I saw that was nostalgic... Roll on eye shimmer. Almost bought it too. What I would really like though is the roll on lip glosses come back. I don't know why but I loved them. And also frosted gloss (Lip smackers used to make one that smelled like mocha) mmmm... I miss middle school!
I remember getting made fun of for having "thicker" brows (which they're really not that thick, but theyre not as thin as most people were wearing them. I was literally in middle school, almost high school getting made fun of for them. But I refused to over pluck them and I'm so glad I did because about 5 years later the thicker brows started becoming popular
It's true, I'm 60 now and I wrecked my brows by keep on over plucking them. I have now found a great brow professional who waxes them and dyes them and they look so much better. 😁
Eye socket! ^-^.... used to pluck the daylights when I was in my teens, now that they have a arch I grow them out but there's a slight bald spot in em! So sad lol
As I'm yelling eye socket Robert, socket, socket!! 🤣lmao I'm so glad I'm not a trendy person. I like to think of myself as classic timeless , everything from makeup , style, decor. My brows have always been almost non existent so skinny will do for me😁 pretty much how I pencil them now. Hate hate hate glitter. Any and all! So messy and you manage to find it around the house for days. Ugh!
Robert spitting facts on the skinny brows. Take advice from friends and family. My mum was always apprehensive about letting us pluck and wax our brows. I later found out when she was younger she had some of her brows permanently removed (I assume laser) so she has no tail to hers. 10/10 she regrets it.
I once used glitter hairspray on my daughter for a 'crazy' hair day and the spray wouldn't stop. a piece of glitter was stuck in the mechanism. I even pulled the bit off the top. so I ended up running through the house with it wrapped in a towel to put it outside. There was glitter all through the house and yard. I moved from there a very long time ago but I bet there is still glitter in that house
