End of an Era: Our Final Eyebrow Post

It's been a great run.  But now we're done. This is the final blog post on Blu's Eyebrow Blog.

We'd planned to run up about a half dozen more posts, just to get to 1,600 total posts. But it's becoming too much of a chore, and not as fun as it used to be. So we'll stick with curating the Flickr group Women's Eyebrows, and leave this site up for search engines to find.

We also thought a lot about whose photo to use in our final post. Our first-ever post, back in March of 2007, showed this corner of Ines Sastre:

And it's right that it have a place of honor here at the end.

But there's really no arguing about the icon of all eyebrow-centric thinking. It's the one, the only, Audrey Hepburn. The last of our looks at Audrey (in the 33rd post to mention her), is at the bottom of this column. Before we share Funny Face, though, here are a few stats from the almost 6 years of eyebrow blogging here:

• Total posts: 1,595
• Comments: 152
• Page views all time: about 975,000

We checked on the most popular posts of all time too...some surprises, based on the lethal combo of our tags and peoples' search proclivities:

• Most popular (54,000 views): Something Sticking Out: Amateur Oops
• 2nd most popular (18,700 views): Feast of Eyebrow Love: Radha Mitchell
• 3rd most popular 18,000 views): Tennis Pro Ashley Harkleroad, Nude

Note that the #1 all-time keyword search driving traffic to us has been: "Oops." We also get a lot of people looking for nude photos of Maggie Siff, who we blogged twice but then forgot about because we don't think she's interesting.

Our biggest month for traffic ever was easily May 2008. That's when we got a link from Fleshbot, Gawker's pr0n site. We were also on a roll anyway, with more than 50 posts that month, generating extra traffic.

Our number one source of traffic, with more than 24,000 clicks through, is IndieNudes. We mentioned them in June 2007 and they linked to us, and the hits just keep on coming. Thanks again for the link, guys.

Worldwide, we're most popular in the USA, followed by the UK, Germany, Canada, and France.

Enough with the stats. You don't care about that anyway. Here's our final hurrah, as we hurtle past the 1,000,000 page views mark. Thanks to all our readers, commenters, contributors, and friends. It's been a great ride – we'll see you on Flickr.

Scroll-down final scroll-down comment: Thanks especially to our biggest fan, most special supporter, most loyal reader, and best friend ever. She's been an odd kind of inspiration (in a good way), and she knows who she is. And we hope she knows how much we love her!

But...Best Oscar Photo Ever...

Oscar Night...1956...

Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn.

Incomparable.

First Audreys of 2012

There will be more.

This one is large, click to see....

Audrey Yawns

It is what it is.

We really can't even talk about this.

Of Elephants and Eyebrows: Dovima

The superbly elegant fashion model known as Dovima represents the person who would appear perfectly at ease with the concept of opera gloves - in the supermarket, or on the playground.

Who was Dovima?

DOrothy VIrginia MArgaret Juba. Photographer Richard Avedon called her the last of the "great elegant, aristocratic beauties," and he may have been right. Here she is with our poster child extraordinaire, Audrey Hepburn, on the set of Funny Face:


The arched brown and self-confident glance in this photo (likely by Avedon, though we can't verify it) tell you what you need to know about her:


And this one you may well have seen - definitely by Avedon, and published in Harper's Bazaar (not bizarre...)....Dress by Dior:

1,500 Posts

We haven't been as frequent with our postings the last few months, but we hope you enjoy what you see.

This is our 1,500th posting since early 2007. That's a lot of copyright violation.

We celebrate with our all-time favorite subject:

Audrey Hepburn.


Props to contributor-reader Jonathan for sharing this with us.

See you in January!

Audrey Hepburn: Screen Test

Gotcha!!!!

Nothing Funny About This Face

The one, the only, Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face.

Week to Week Now: Back with Audrey

So we took a break. Ahhhhhhhhh. That was good.

Now we're back. But we're busy people, and believe it or not, eyebrow blogging is not as lucrative as it used to be. So we're working jobs on the side. As a result, we cannot promise to post more than once a week for the indefinite future.

We know – you are hurt. You are devastated. We need to soothe your feelings of betrayal, sorrow and – disappointment.

Here's Audrey (and Ip). She'll make you feel so much better. She always does.




Courtesy of the ladies at Suicide Blonde. See you next week.

Recordamos

This awesome snapshot of Audrey Hepburn (via Suicide Blonde) shows her choosing a disc to put on the hi-fi (that's what we had before you kids had wi-fi and mi-fi and whatnot).

She is reaching for something called Recuerdos ("memories"). We don't think it's the Nana Mouskouri joint, but who knows?

Audrey: we remember!

Hard to Believe, Impossible to Resist

We love this shot of Audrey Hepburn getting her hair did.

You love it too...


Last of the Suicide Blonde posts ... for now.

Best Photo Ever? Maybe

They did it again. Just when we're about to unsubscribe from the RSS feed of Suicideblonde on tumblr because we don't want or need to see another photo of Tina Fey...they post this photo of Audrey Hepburn.

Never mind the eyebrows. Just love the photo. Just love Audrey.

That's How You Win an Oscar (tm), You Schmuck!

Audrey Hepburn, after her Roman Holiday. We dig the "Press" guys in the background, especially since it reflects the final scenes of the film, where she has to hold a phony press conference and is beside herself with misery ....


Via Suicide Blonde.

Our Valentine

Always and 4eva.

The incomparable Audrey. On a Schwinn.

Blurry Black and White Audrey

Reality Check

1,000th Post: The One and Only

There wasn't much discussion at HQ about whom to feature in our 1,000th post.

Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Takes Us Into 2009

It's nearing the end of a full year of eyebrow sharing. We hope it was as good for you as it was for us.

We're sharing a little Audrey Hepburn (from Lulu's Vintage) – then we're going offline for a few days and unless something goes suddenly, terribly wrong, we'll be back with a new look in 2009. So sit tight, drink heavily, and enjoy the brows.

Happy New Year!


Scroll-down self-promotion: Don't forget to follow along on Twitter.

Audrey Hepburn: Best Candid Ever

We loved seeing Audrey Hepburn grocery shopping with her pet deer, Ip.

But we love even more (if that's possible) seeing her barefoot, sundressed, and hair up, checking the oven.

Love.

Normally We Ignore Ads

But if there's a beautiful face and great eyebrows, we notice them.

That's why we liked this one, which appeared somewhere we were surfing online this week.

Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.

We'll buy that.