Lena Dunham "equates" good eyebrows with power.
Lena Dunham
The 'Girls' star always admires women's eyebrows as she believes those with good eyebrows "know what they want and get it".
She shared: "I have always equated eyebrows with power - with women who know what they want and get it. Like a good perfume or a giant latte in a pure white cup, a great set of eyebrows is an immediate introduction to a person's city-wise strength, letting your adversaries know you mean business.
"Without them, however, you can cut the figure of a nervous bobby-soxer. There are a few exceptions to this rule, of course, like Tilda Swinton, whose pale eyebrows evoke a conquering alien queen, or Lynn Yaeger, who has created such a thoroughly dramatic fashion persona that eyebrows would almost be too much."
Meanwhile, Lena has struggled in the past with her own eyebrows but has found a solution in microblading, a type of semi-permanent tattooing which gives the eyebrows a fuller look.
Recalling her experience in an essay for Vogue.com, she added: "As I settle into her chair, Dominique immediately puts me at ease by describing how she custom-blends and compounds her own pigments and uses the teeniest, tiniest needles for smaller punctures. We chat as she sets to work drawing impossibly fine follicles where my hairs ought to be, explaining how a series of permanent-makeup horrors suffered in her 20s sent her, like a mad scientist, down the path to learn how to create perfect, indiscernibly artificial brows, eyeliner, and even flushed pink lips ...
"A mere 40 minutes later, when I finally sat up, I was too stunned to speak. On my face were two perfect brows, the same hard-to-capture brown as the hair on my head, multidimensional, thick in all the right places, giving my face a grounded seriousness I had been wishing for since that day in the bathroom almost 20 years ago."
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