Ready for her Close Up: Audrey Again

Blooming Under Sable Skies

Is Blubrow the Brigadoon of blogs? That mythical Scottish village appears every 100 years and the outside world has the chance to interact with it...Maybe this blog appears every 100 posts and someone interacts. Here's why I think so:

On a blog called Reject the Kool-Aid, blogger Tearfree commented on Famke Janssen's scary, brutish eyebrows and also referred to Blubrow's blog (the one you are reading now). The first assessment was not positive ("sort of lame" was the verdict), however, on further review she changed her mind and said

it's not lame at all. Great brow shots of both famous people and regular gals.

This is important for two reasons:

1. It's the first time anyone on the internet has ever acknowledged that it's OK to change your mind about anything (props to Tearfree!), and
2. It may - may - herald the birth of a brow bloggers' kindredhood of some kind. And that just might mean that at long last, eyebrows will be seen as the super-central hyper-critical ultra-meaningful key that they are to all things esthetic.

More likely, though, nobody will notice and I'll just keep toiling away in relative anonymity (Tearfree's blog isn't really "about" eyebrows and she may never comment again). That's actually ok, though, because I subscribe to the belief that as soon as somebody else likes something I like, it's no good anymore.

So I leave you with this...I'll be adding a list of brow-ish sites sometime soon, and I share the following just for fun:



A model named Lou-Lou as captured by famed photographer Richard Kern. Her eyebrows are solid, but the rest of her hair is a mess. Ain't it always like that?

100th Post: Audrey

Still the best.

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Turkey's Grid Girls

As a follow up to this weekend's GP of Monaco, here are a few ladies from last year's Turkish GP:







Now I am off in search of the grid girls from Monte Carlo this past weekend...

Andy Julia's Eyebrows

Photographer Andy Julia is a talented Paris-based photographer who seems to enjoy adding snippets of ideas from painting, illustration, sculpture and a little bit of Beaux Arts history to his photography.

But we don't give a good goddamn about that. We just like the stylized eyebrows.




This one sort of reminds me of Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg - but in an OK way:





No - wait - we don't like the stylized eyebrows. WE LOVE THEM.

First I Shot Myself. Then....

The other day I mentioned a site called I Shot Myself. They have competition, evidently, from a site called Her Self Pics.

Nothing says "she shot herself" more internetly than the blurry, foreshortened arm of a topless chick. And I think that homegrown porn efforts would be more appealing, no matter how pretty the girl, if the model took a minute to place her loofahs and conditioner bottles out of the field of view.

Finally, this girl is pretty, but the brows need attention. It's good to see raw material (and no red-eye), but a visit to the salon would make this girl (Brandy by name) just perfect.

Princess Grace

And in honor of the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend as well, let's revisit Grace Kelly. Click for full resolution.

Miss Universe In Turmoil?

So Isabel Lestapier Winqvist (above), Sweden's entry in the Miss Universe pageant has withdrawn from the competition. Swedes seem to have just learned of the breaking news: beauty pageants are misogynistic in nature and degrading to women.

This is good news for people who like their beauty queens' front teeth to be somewhat aligned, and bad news for people who wanted to look at her eyebrows.

This Miss Universe contest is shaping up to be a slightly weird one anyway, with Miss Jamaica sporting dreadlocks and Miss Tanzania sporting a shaved...head.

Of course, the truly great aspect of this is that Miss Jamaica's "national costume" includes a Bob Marley concert t-shirt.

Jah Glory!

Spanish Grand Prix: Grid Girls

This weekend sees the Formula I Grand Prix of Monaco, always a swank, sexy affair. Meanwhile, we anticipate it by sharing three photos of the "grid girls" from the last F1 race, in Spain.

Gentlewomen, start your eyebrows!