8 Little-Known Facts About Eyebrows

Women spend a lot of effort, and sometimes even finances, to ensure that their eyebrows get the perfect shape. Work on this part of the face includes coloring, modeling, and, of course, makeup. At the same time, few ladies are wondering about the main function of the eyebrows or about what their shape can tell. It would seem that this small part of the face can hide in itself. But such an opinion is erroneous, the proof of this is extremely curious and little-known facts about eyebrows, which estet-portal.com is ready to share with you.

What we don't know about eyebrows

Eyebrows – it is a kind of frame of our face. It seems that lately caring for them has become something of an obsession. Today, specialists in the care of this part of the face (they are called eyebrows) offer all kinds of salon procedures for restoring, growing and, of course, modeling eyebrows. In addition, today a whole generation of girls is growing who will never have problems with eyebrows, because the mothers of these girls bring up “eyebrow culture” in their daughters, forbidding themselves to touch this part of the face and immediately bring them to professionals. All this is true, but what do we not know about eyebrows? 

1. A normal person has about 250 growing hairs in each eyebrow. At the same time, eyebrows that have never been plucked can contain from 1000 to 1100 hairs.
2. Plucking eyebrows, modeling their shape, it turns out, is a very ancient ritual that has its own history. For example, the oldest eyebrow tweezers – 5 thousand years old, they were discovered in one of the Sumerian tombs. At the same time, each nation in different eras had its own fashion for this part of the face. One of the first to conduct experiments with the eyebrows of an Egyptian.

For example, they shaved off their own eyebrows and painted on new ones instead. The ideal of beauty was considered a woman with the thinnest long eyebrows, summed up to the temples. Remember the portrait of Mona Lisa, who lived in Renaissance Florence: this mysterious lady appears before us with shaved eyebrows and hair over her forehead – according to the fashion of those times. And in America during colonization, the elite formed here preferred to have false eyebrows, which were made from the skins of mice.

Men in ancient China dyed their eyebrows to give their faces a militant look. 

3. The life cycle of each individual eyebrow hair is approximately 120 days. This is the amount of time it takes for new hairs to appear in place of the lost hairs. But if the eyebrows are shaved off, it may take at least a year for them to fully recover.
4. Our emotionality is also betrayed by eyebrows. And often they move against our will. For example, if we are surprised by something, the movement of the eyebrows occurs symmetrically, and suspecting something or being interested in something, we involuntarily make this part of the face move asymmetrically. All this is out of control and happens, as if on "autopilot".
   Eyebrows have a considerable number of mammals, but only in humans these hairs are located on bare skin. "Guilt" That is the evolutionary process. And since the eyebrows on people's faces stand out, it makes it easier to understand the emotions experienced by each person and, accordingly, the communication process is simplified.
The true function of eyebrows – eye protection from moisture in the rain or in the heat from sweat.
6. This moisture, along with dirt, accumulates on the eyebrows, then flows down to the temples, thus protecting the eyes from the liquid.
Eyebrows, or rather their shape, can tell a lot about a person's character; accordingly, this circumstance affects how we are perceived by others. For example, people with straight eyebrows prefer to be guided not by feelings, but by reason and have a practical nature. And those whom nature has endowed with curved eyebrows are easily suggestible, trusting and emotional.

It would seem that the eyebrows – a small and inconspicuous detail of the face, but their

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