Saying 👋 to society's eyebrow expectations
In this op-ed Salomée Levy writes about her struggle with facial hair and how she came to embrace it.
When I was growing up, my father would remind me that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and my mother was my primary example of what beauty looked like: being kind and having the best smelling perfume. She had thick eyebrows and strutted wherever she went with confidence; I wanted to be like her. But at school it was a different story. I was embarrassed by my thick eyebrows, which no other girl had in my first-grade class.
By the fourth grade I had heard about eyebrow threading, and I dragged my mother to the mall to get it done. I did not know the painful consequences ahead of me. I imagined my eyebrows would be thinner so I could finally fit in with the other girls in my class. But as the thread glided across my skin for the first time, I screamed so loud that the entire store heard me. My eyes closed, filled with tears.
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