Don’t let your eyebrows run wild – but do dye them
First let’s address the issue of growth direction. Some 12 per cent of Britons have eyebrows growing in an unhelpful trajectory. To illustrate, think of the late Denis Healey. Imagine the abundance of Healey’s eyebrows. It will help to illustrate what can go wrong when eyebrows grow straight out of the head in the same direction as the nose, rather than along the brow line towards the ears. In Healey’s case, the eyebrows went untamed throughout his 40-year political career and at one stage even became ‘handlebar’ eyebrows (as in Jimmy Edwards/ Norman Parkinson handlebar moustaches). Looking back at the lack of vanity of this dedicated public servant from the perspective of today’s Ozempic-taking, teeth-whitening, spineless sissies and shafting parliamentarians, war hero Healey seems a giant of a man. But many of us in the 12 per cent do not want to make a feature of our handlebar eyebrows, so...
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