“Being a public persona on the internet means that my face is looked at almost constantly by strangers, leading to uninvited comments about one feature in particular: my eyebrows. ... Reactions range from applause to truly unhinged amounts of anger and disgust. I started wondering: Have people always been this weird about eyebrows? As the most easily mutable facial feature, women’s eyebrows have often been sites of intense scrutiny and have gone through seemingly endless, rapidly changing trend cycles around the world. ...”
Unknown artist, "Mummy portrait of a young woman named Eirene from Egypt” detail (c. 1st century BCE–1st century CE), encaustic on wood panel
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