Brooke Shields is an American actress and model who was especially popular in the 80s. Like many beautiful actresses, Shields became famous not so much for her roles as for her life outside the screen and the status of "eyebrow icon" that stuck to her for many years.
Starring at 15 after the premiere of Blue Lagoon in 1980, Brooke Shields instantly found fans around the world, including girls who wanted to be like her. "Brows Brooke Shields" in the United States has become literally a household term, as nowadays they talk about the eyebrows of Cara Delevingne or at one time they talked about Frida Kahlo's monobrow. In the 80s and 90s, Brooke Shields was associated with her bushy eyebrows, thanks in part to her mother's persistence.
“I had no idea about beauty and how it should be. Perhaps because there have always been professionals who did it. I didn't even look in the mirror when they did my makeup before shooting. They asked me: "How do you feel?", I answered: "Great!" Fortunately, my mother was always very careful about my appearance. "
Mom said no!
“Mom never thought that my eyebrows would become a legend, she just wanted to keep my image. When one of the makeup artists approached me with tweezers, she was insistent: “It's part of her personality. If you want to pluck them, it is, of course, your right to do so. Remove the tweezers, we are not going to change anything. ”
Once, when Brooke was modeling at Ford, her agent wanted her eyebrows to be lightened. It was summer and Brooke's brown hair was sunburned, making her eyebrows look a lot darker. But my mother said an insistent "no." When the agent tried to argue that the eyebrows should be combined with the hair, my mother answered sharply:
"Sorry, but you won't touch her eyebrows!"
80s face
In February 1981, the reputable Time magazine published a number with Brooke on the cover and the caption “The '80s Look”. The photo was taken right after the Valentino fashion show, which featured Shields as a model. He and the photographer Francesco Scavullo entered the room, and he quickly took a photo of her. Brooke then thought she looked ridiculous. Face bleached with powder and dark wide eyebrows. Who said that this is the image of the 80s?
The legendary fashion photographer Richard Avedon liked her eyebrows very much, who shot her for the famous Vogue photo shoot and for the Calvin Klein commercial.
No experiments
A famous eyebrow master once attended a TV show with Brooke. And she allowed her eyebrows to be adjusted. And in vain - it was terrible.
“They were shortened and bent. I was shocked. Thank God, everything quickly grew back. "
Brook says that throughout her life she did nothing special with her eyebrows, only occasionally pulling out completely inappropriate hairs. She also admitted that she admires Frida Kahlo's monobrow.
"Authenticity has always been very important to me, and it all started with the eyebrows!"
It doesn't work anymore
If you look at recent photographs of Brooke Shields, it's impossible not to notice that her eyebrows don't look the same as they did when she was young. Her eyebrows are wide, but neat - all in modern fashion.
In February 2020, the actress shared in an interview with People magazine that the glory days of her eyebrows are long gone, so she is no longer obsessed with their appearance as she used to be.
“They have changed a lot over the years. I recently did a photo shoot where I wanted my eyebrows to look like they were in the 80s. I ended up looking like a clown. It just doesn't work anymore and that's okay. My hair has changed too. And all this disheveledness and rebelliousness, which was in vogue in the 80s, is no longer a part of my life. "
In May 2020, Brooke Shields turns 55 and the movie Blue Lagoon, which made her famous, celebrates its 40th anniversary in June.
