Rihanna Is Bringing Back Skinny Brows, and the Internet Isn't Ready
It’s hard for Rihanna to make a wrong move. In fact, just writing that feels out of bounds—if Rihanna chose to do something, she must have her reasons. Leg stubble? She’s revolutionizing beauty. That said, her latest look is stirring up some strong feelings. On the cover of British Vogue‘s September issue, Rihanna, ever a beauty visionary, is wearing the tiniest, most over-the-top pencil thin brows to be seen on a celebrity in what feels like forever, and Twitter is distressed.
As Rihanna’s Instagram caption explains, the look was created in collaboration with Isamaya Ffrench who’s a celebrity makeup artist known for pushing the boundaries of makeup in a very avant-garde, Alexander McQueen-ish way. Ffrench used Fenty, because of course, although the exact products aren’t listed (if Fenty drops a 1-millimeter brow pencil next the Internet would surely implode). As is, her brows look like they plausibly could’ve been the work of Flyliner, Fenty’s newly-launched liquid liner.
The images Vogue came up with are beautiful, but the Internet’s reactions were immediate and hardline: No, please, Rihanna, NO. Don’t lure us back to the early aughts skinny brow trend, we didn’t go all-in on Boy Brow and microblading for this. We’ve bought brow serums and hundreds of products to escape the horrors that these brows did. Don’t let a new generation suffer.
https://twitter.com/DaniellaRusso95/status/1025024750471528449
There are divisions. Some people say, just because Rihanna wore it on set doesn’t mean we’re seeing the start of an actual real-life trend. They have a point; insane brow styles pop up on Instagram all the time, and we haven’t seen those make the jump.
But other people, they beg to differ.
https://twitter.com/twentieslife_/status/1024779255379636225
https://twitter.com/bopppenheimer/status/1024746414499409922
However: we could always do worse.
Related Stories:
–This Brow Serum Has Undone Years of Over-Waxing
–WTF Happened to Eyebrows This Year?
–Secrets From a Brow-Obsessed Fashion Editor