Madonna's caterpillars, Marlene Dietrich's shocked shape, Pamela Anderson's pencil lines and Cara Delevingne's bushy brow: How eyebrows evolved since the 1920s
- For more than a century, women have loved meddling with their eyebrows
- Every decade a new style is adopted by millions of females
- From slim in 1940 to bushy in the 80s and Scouse brows in the Noughties
2010 to 2020 is the decade of the eyebrow.
These days, that are a multitude of brushes, gels, tweezers, pencils and pens at your disposal to make brows as big as possible.
British supermodel Cara Delevingne is being credited with spearheading the new obsession, with her impressive facial caterpillars now seen as one of the most desired celebrity features to possess.
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For more than a century, women have loved fiddling with their eyebrows. Pictured from left: Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Katie Price and Cara Delevingne
But while we are all now striving for bushy perfection, there is a long history of women adapting their eyebrows to suit the fashion of the time.
In the 1920s, women went to the trouble of creating sad faces, by drawing on eyebrows that angled downwards.
In the 1950s, caterpillars were in mode thanks to stars like Audrey Hepburn, who embraced her power brows.
While many women are still trying to recover from the aggressively plucked style of the 90s,and the Scouse brow of recent years.
Read on to discover some of the most iconic celebrity brows of the last century...
In the 1920s, socialite Clara Bow made her pencil-thin eyebrows a key part of her look. The downwards angle made her appear constantly sad
In the 1930s, eyebrows took on clown-like proportions. Marlene Dietrich was reported to shave all of her brow hair and then use a pencil to redraw the line above her natural brow line, which gave her a shocked look
In the 1950s, eyebrows started to take on much more of a natural look - stars like Marilyn Monroe used pencils to define the shape but largely stuck to what nature gave them
Audrey Hepburn was one of the biggest brow icons of the 1950s, with her bushy style
In the 1960s eyebrows were thin and emphasised with a pencil, like Mia Farrow in A Dandy in Aspic
60s style icon Mary Quant also opted for the strong thing brow look
In the 1970s, women laid off the eye pencil and went for their natural look, with many like Twiggy struggling to overcome the heavy plucking of the 60s
The 80s were known for the 'power brow', with women like Madonna spearheading the dark and bushy look
Brooke Shields was the eyebrow icon of the 80s
The 90s saw the return of the tweezers with vengeance - stars like Pamela Anderson relied heavily on their eyebrow pencil to create an arch
Kate Moss's eyebrows were the aim of many 90s woman
Gwen Stefani took her brow styling a step further and accessorised hers with facial jewels
The Noughties saw the rise of the Scouse brow - highly-styled brow that is exxaggerated with heavy pencilling
Coleen Rooney was one of the early adapters of the Scouse brow
Kate Middleton goes for a paired down version of the Scouse brow
In the last few years, eyebrows have become less styled and more generally bushy, as championed by Cara Delevingne
Actress Lily Collins is also a big advocate of bushy brows
Model Suki Waterhouse also makes the most of her naturally large eyebrows
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