Some people have no eyebrows for one reason or another. Tattooing is a way to get them or get them back.
I once saw a guy in the pit who had no hair anywhere visible. He had eyebrows and a chinstrap tattooed on… in the shape of bones. Like, cartoon bone shape, like the dog treats. It didn’t look bad but it did look like he was a guy who didn’t take life too seriously.
Great dancer, too.
Bone-eyebrow guy, if you’re out there, I’ll always remember you and your throwaway style.
once saw a guy in the pit
curious, what does this mean? Racing car? Orchestra?
My assumption is a mosh pit.
Reading this comment chain I’m questioning myself.
My only visual when I read the initial comment was that @Nemo was talking about something akin to the Thunderdome in Mad Max II.
@mp3@lemmy.ca and @ma11en@lemmy.world are correct, the mosh pit. I thought the punk aesthetic and comment about his dancing gave enough context, but perhaps not.
I’m old, and not up with all this stuff that the young folk are into. Thanks for the explanation.
This was in the 90s, my friend.
Seems he’s revealing that he is either Bruce Wayne or Bane. As they’re the only two to ever escape from the pit; historically speaking.
Mosh?
Fighting pit
Yes. And not in a comical way either
I can make them pretty comical if you want. How hard could tattooing be? 😇
Fuck it, McDonald me up then
Saves time from having to draw them on every day.
I mean, for normal people who did have their eyebrows hair, before replacing them with tattoo
Because it looks good.
Why do people get tattoos - why do they dye their hair… Because they like it.
Also, “normal people” is a phrase that is meaningless.
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In the early 2000s plucking and waxing your brows to really really thin was fashionable, esp in certain places. Then people realized it is dumb but if you are around 40 now it was too late. So microblading helps you not look like a MadTV sketch. Source: my wife turns 40 this year, grew up in a particularly hood area of the sf bay area, and from 30 onwards really regretted plucking her eyebrows to almost nothing.
Brows naturally thin as you age as well. Happens to plenty of guys who never plucked.
That’s news to my brows. Mine are growing longer. A few more years of this and I’ll look like the mentats from Lynch’s Dune.
Heh that’s a great image.
Mine are just… sort of moving further away from the bridge of my nose. I’m not sure what their end game is.
They’re heading over to grow out of your ears.
I’ve tried some of the eyebrow gel stuff (The Ordinary, o7) that promises to regrow lost brows, and it’s been surprisingly effective. You just have to use it regularly for a few weeks.
I went from my SO commenting on my lack of eyebrows multiple times and my mom asking me if I had an eyebrow pencil…to my mom telling me to do something about my “out of control bushy eyebrows”.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Oh interesting I’ll tell my wife. I still continually deal with the unibrow myself. But high quality microblading is way different than normal tattooing esp in the appearance of texture, it’s quite amazing. Also pretty freaking expensive.
Oh! Also RevitaLash. It’s more expensive, but I was desperate so I got a few different brands just in case and still alternate. It worked on my eyelashes, too (sadly that’s just bad genes - never had long ones). This morning I just did a little trim with some small scissors, and I’m happy with that. It really was odd to find something that worked as advertised. I wish your wife happy, crazy, out of control eyebrows! :)
I think that’s the same ingredient as the glaucoma medicine. People with glaucoma always had super long eyelashes from the glaucoma eyedrops.
Oh interesting! Whatever it is, it works (for me at least)!
Maybe cancer/chemo or alopecia?
Vanity, ultimately.
But I mean, there are a lot of talented people doing micro blading that looks pretty realistic. The bad shit is the thin, solid, sharpie shit old women used to get.
Yeah there’s a bit of no good toupee fallacy going on
My great aunt has very light hair, and as she got older, you couldn’t see her eyebrows at all. She felt people couldn’t see her facial expressions as well, so she got them tattooed on. She seems happy with it.
I’m guessing it’s the same as tattoo eyeliner: save money on makeup.
some people don’t identify with their natural eyebrow situation. it bothers them about how they are perceived. maybe they are the wrong shape or thickness or angled or missing. the thought is it gives them their idealized form. one issue though is that tattooed/drawn brows don’t appear similar in many lighting situations to hair, even if leonardo da vinci made them with sfumato technique.
i notice these kinds of people have too many mirrors in their lives and more pride than self confidence.
