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Black-ish and Grown-ish actress Yara Shahidi got refreshingly candid when she posted a proud picture to Instagram on Friday bidding adieu to her unibrow. After all, eyebrows are front and center in the beauty world these days, and there are so many choices about how to make your vision for them come true: waxing, threading, implants, plucking, micro-blading, tattoos—even wigs. Whether you’re going for a beautifully bold look, getting rid of a unibrow, or taming some wayward hairs into submission, the range of ways to sculpt your brows is seemingly endless.

But one thing that’s rare to see in the beauty world? Brows that have been set free to be the way they are naturally—unibrow and all. And truth be told, this latest gorgeous Instagram from Shahidi is making me totally rethink my own unibrow.

The Black-ish actress posted a close-up picture of herself with the caption, “Unibrow appreciation post ⚡️ had to get rid of it as I transition into Zoey for #Grownish …. you will be missed my friend… #TheyWillReturn.”

When I first saw her photo on my Instagram feed, I instantly gave it a double-tap before lingering on the image for a few seconds. For me, her post really hit home. I’d confidently rocked a unibrow throughout my entire childhood without really knowing I had one. No one mentioned it or made fun of me, and I was totally comfortable with my one brunette brow.

That all changed when I started middle school in 2004. Then, super-thin brows with a high arch were the norm. And when I watched my favorite actresses on television and read my favorite magazines, I started thinking twice about my bushy brows when I looked in the mirror. Society’s standard of beauty made me and my natural body hair feel like an outcast. I still remember going to the hairdresser with my mom down the street to take care of the middle of my brows because I didn’t feel pretty anymore.

Since then, I have been conditioned by society to obsessively maintain my body hair. Every one to two months, I wax and even alter their natural shade with semi-permanent dye. Every morning, I make sure there aren’t any rogue hairs, fill them in, and gel them perfectly in place before I leave my apartment.

Before seeing 17-year-old Shahidi proudly displaying her natural beauty on a very public forum like Instagram, I thought I’d have to control my ever-growing eyebrows for the rest of my life. But now, thanks to Shahidi changing the conversation, my 23-year-old self is going to think twice before I immediately reach for my tweezers and pluck a hair. Instead, I’m going to tell myself that I’m beautiful just the way I am, unibrow and all.

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