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!

Linda Evangelista with a Cancer Stick

We've said it before. We'll say it again.

Smoking is a horrible, dirty habit that is bad for you.

Also, it's freakin' hot.

Linda Evangelista.

Emily Ratajkowski: Treats Indeed

Emily Ratajkowski apparently was a kid TV actress on Nickelodeon.

Fast forward.

Emily Ratajkowski is an insanely endowed model with nice eyebrows. 

The photos below appear in Treats! Magazine (Spring 2012) and these great scans are courtesy of a fun blog called mmm...Models. The photos are by Steve Shaw. 

Check it out.

Barbara Palvin

18 year-old Barbara Palvin is a Hungarian fashion model.

What the hell else do you need to know?

Nothing. Except maybe that this photo is by Liz Collins.

Found on Flickr

We love the "Recent from Everyone" feature of Flickr. It shows you the most recent several uploads. Given that between three and six thousand photos are uploaded every minute, the variety is enjoyable. And sometimes you hit pure gold.

As with this set from a user named Eclexion_Arts. This young woman poses for many photos, and her eyebrows are a force of a nature.

Oh, and she's in a car, so we used the Drive It! tag, which we don't often get to use.

Don't forget we have a whole group on Flickr, devoted to Women's Eyebrows! Constantly growing (the group, not the brows). And modestly, we must say, it's awesome!!

Enjoy.

They Have This?!

Apparently yeah.

In Argentina. As we saw in January of 2011, that's where photog Jeronimo Laborde lives and shoots. And we presume, where this nameless sylph abides.

Right about now, though, we're singing, "Abide with me!"

Throwback Thursday: Elsa Martinelli

Who is this?!

Elsa Martinelli.

She was an Italian model who became an actress...Big smile, big eyes...big brows.

We love it.

Searching Siberia...for Eyebrows?

We saw a one-hour long documentary recently, called Searching Siberia. This pair of American modeling talent scouts ride the Trans-Siberian Railway every year and visit five Russian cities, where they do casting calls for young teenage girls who want to be "discovered" and become fashion models.

A few of the girls actually make it, although obviously the majority are doomed to a life of living in a Soviet-era apartment block on the tundra.

Although it's not a well-made film, we enjoyed Searching Siberia for a couple of reasons. For one thing, every time the scouts arrive in a new city, there is a ballroom filled with dozens of skinny, bikini-clad teenagers waiting for them. That doesn't get old. Second, though, in the same way that there are a few hidden modeling gems in those crowds of girls, there are a handful of awesome eyebrows waiting to be unleashed.

Here are some screenshots:





And here's a two minute + trailer for the film:

Mercedes Esquivel: Cha Cha Cha

Crap!

We just fell in love again.

This time it's Mercedes Esquivel. She's on the Flickr too....



And it gets worse (i.e., better): Her cousin, who "visits twice a year":

Throwback Thursday

We're continuing the process we started last weak of clearing some vintage eyebrows out of storage...In no particular order, we offer this week's Throwback Thursday:

Jane Dolinger, one of the most interesting women you've never heard of. Here's a teaser: She authored an article titled I Witnessed a Head-Shrinking Orgy.


A certain Candy McKay:


A long, curvy, but anonymous eyebrow from 1957:


Another unknown sidebrow:


A final unknown but provocative young model, with a nice arch:


And miss Diane Webber, aka Marguerite Empey, who was not only a Playboy centerfold, but also taught belly dancing in Van Nuys!:

Brow Smackdown from Style Bistro

We were cautiously pessimistic about how "fun" it would be to play Style Bistro's guessing game, "Who has the best brows?"

First of all, only we are allowed to answer that question. But we went ahead and played the game anyway...

Who Has the Best Brows?

We got 17 out of 20.

How did YOU do?

Be warned: you'll be confronted with horrific "choices" like this....


Other brows featured belong to:

Doutzen Kroes
Jennifer Connelly
Brooke Shields
Cindy Crawford
Maria Menounos
Miley Cyrus
Cheryl Burke
Audrina Partridge
Victoria Justice
Carmen Electra
Diana Agron
Jessica Lowndes
Katie Holmes
Coco Rocha
Jennifer Hudson
Christina Milian
Katy Perry
Serena Williams
Lauren Goodger
Nikki Reed
Vera Farmiga
Leona Lewis
Elizabeth Olsen
Abigail Breslin
Victoria Beckham
Olivia Palermo
The Monster Fergie

and

J Lo

Our pick for the best, based on the photos they used, is actually Jessica Lowndes. We'll feature her some other time.

A More Traditional New Year for Some

Last week we started the year all dirty and whatnot, with a celebrity porn story.

This week we're backtracking and bringing you a more traditional way to welcome 2012: with Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar models. We picked the three who are most rockin' the eyebrows.

They are Hilary Rhoda:


Alyssa Miller:


And in her first appearance on this blog, Julie Henderson:


Who's your favorite?

We're partial to Ms. Miller.

Start Off the Year with a Bang. Literally.

Happy 2012 to all eyebrow fans and readers, casual or faithful. We're planning to keep up with our roughly "every Monday" posting plan, since it works for us. (If it doesn't work for you, well...too bad.)

To kick off the new year we're taking a look at Belen Rodriguez. She's a pretty, sexy brunette model and TV type from Argentina, who lives in Italy and who made headlines a while back because of – shocking!!! – a leaked sex tape.

Normally this is pretty boring news to us, but we actually checked this one out, because, as you can see below, her eyebrows are so quality. Bottom line though: don't bother. She's not that famous, and even though she looks great (and we appreciate her technique in some specific aspects) it's blurry, dark and confusing most of the time. Like teenager sex.

Instead, here's a quick Belen gallery. Cha cha cha.

Sporting side boob:


Sporting nipple. Oops! Slip!!


She gives good magazine cover!


More cuteness:


And a (cropped by us) screen cap from the aforementioned video. Note: we lightened & sharpened the image quite a bit, the video itself is darker and blurrier. And more confusing.

Saucy Sozzi

Yao! Brazil's model Renata Sozzi has some strong, beautiful eyebrows, and a killer physique (if you're into models, anyway) to go along with them. She also has her own blog.


She's featured prominently in this 90-second video showcasing spring collection items from designer Malwee (we also like the toucan at 1:14 and the blonde's kerchief – but that's just us):

Malwee - primavera-verão 11/12 90" from Zé Alexandre Faria on Vimeo.

Rotate By 90 Degrees Clockwise

"Rocky," a reader in Canadia, sent this and asked if we knew who it was.

Rocky, thanks. But if we knew who it was we'd be out trying to meet her, not blogging alone at home. Just saying.

Fall is Here

It's just about autumn here in the Northern hemisphere. So our thoughts are lingering in the summer realm. We thought these photos of Alyssa Miller (by Bjorn Iooss) were suitably summery, so enjoy them as we do....

Return of Harlow

We haven't blogged model Shalom Harlow since January 2010. Here she is again, although our sources tell us these photos were from 2007 (Self Service, Mario Sorrenti).

Either way, we dig the body, the haircut and oh yeah – the eyebrows.

Happy Labor Day, USA.

Model: Daryn Arehova

Perceptive reader Doug pointed us to a video of something involving a babe, a box, and some brows.

Turns out it's model Daryn Arehova in a video involving a shoe collection. Well what do you know! Btw, she's from Belarus.

Here are some stills of the cosmetically-enhanced, but very fun, eyebrows, and link to the video below.



Check out the video over at Fashion Copious.

Book of Breasts. And Brows.

German tit publishers Taschen produced a volume called The Big Book of Breasts. It should probably be called, The Book of Big Breasts.

Anyway, skimming a review, we were taken by the brows, not the boobs, on these three ladies. Painted on for the most part, they make a photo-artistic statement. But we know, as usual, we're the only people whose gaze hit the image above the nipple.

An unknown model:


Terry Wigmore:


Someone known only as Honeybee:


Scroll-down random bonus because it's been a while: More Terry Wigmore.