I Tried some Old Hollywood Eyebrows!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
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WEELLLLL. Tis that time of the year where I just need to futz around with my look. And more specifically, my eyebrows. I thought it would be a good time to sit down and take you (and myself honestly) through a little "Eyebrow History", cuz I think they tend to get overlooked when it comes to beauty trends of the past. I also was curious how they would look on my own face and so: this video was born.
It's a wild ride and I hope you have fun lol.
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The articles I read/mentioned:
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www.byrdie.com...
Chapters:
02:03 The Twenties!
06:49 The Thirties
09:47 The Forties
11:55 The Fifties
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I just saw the title and I heard the "oh no.... oh... no... oh no no no no no" song in my head 😂 I need to stop eating first because I expect a lot of lolzies here and I do not want to choke :D
I've been watching your videos for a long time and I think you have really gotten better at doing your brows in a way that suits your face. I'm sorry you are not feeling good about yourself right now. I'm sure it must be difficult to edit videos of your face all the time because it forces you to pay an unnatural amount of attention to minor details of your appearance. I know I would not have the confidence to do it without getting depressed/obsessed. I think that's why so many content creators whose faces and bodies are featured in their own videos develop mental health issues.
(PS: Marlene Dietrich's name was not pronounced "Mar-leen" but instead it was pronounced "Mar-lee-nah" Just Fyi :) )
@@DivineWrathCV !
Cant wait for cat brows to start trending on tiktok
0:51 - 0:53
*"They once had a purpose, but now are purely decorative."*
Surprisingly eyebrows do still serve a functional purpose. They help keep sweat out of our eyes. That's why human beings still have them.
"if the windows are the eyes to the soul, then eyebrows are like curtains" I thought I heard the first part wrong, but nope she said it like that 😂
Yo, I didn't even hear that until you pointed it out! I had to go back and listen to it again!😂
I literally just skipped back to hear this then immediately came to see if anyone commented 😂 bless Rachel’s chaotic brain
It made me think of Bimini's Snatch Game
Windows are the eyes to my house.
@@GuanoLad *monster house?*
Drag queen here! Great job blocking the brows!! (I didn't look away)
If I may offer a tip, when gluing go against the grain first and using a spoolie brush comb them downward and glue downwards then comb them back upwards and continue gluing as normal (everything else was perfect!) This coats the brow hair from both sides and helps them lay flatter :) I hope that was helpful!! I love your content!!!
Boosting this on general principle.
I was wondering about this, thank you!
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Thank you, Queen Eva 🥺❤️
Drag is why people always ask me if I paid someone to do my makeup. Nope. I just take notes when class is in session.
My mother was a British 1950s movie starlet. The studio taught the actresses how to walk, talk and manage the brow action. This was done with the aid of a razor and a pencil. Unfortunately, as many of us know, eyebrows plucked or shaved over a period of time don't grow back. We end up with a bald spot. Eyebrows are a sensitive topic for my mum. To this day, bless her, she won't even answer the door to the postman without pencilling in some eyebrows despite being ** years old.
@@A.L.75 I didn't realise this. I do hope your MIL is getting better. All the best.
I’ve been shaving off my eyebrows for years, I like pencil thin eyebrows. But they always grow back if I give them 3-6 months. The problem is plucking, not shaving. Because with shaving you don’t pull from the root. The root is still there, so there is no damage being done to the hair follicle. Of course you have to use an eyebrow razor though, and make sure to be careful to not cut yourself or else hair won’t grow there anymore. Never had any problems though. I start seeing stubble immediately a day or two after freshly shaving my eyebrows. I just cover the stubble with concealer (does a pretty good job) and just keep doing that until the stubble is too noticeable, then I shave them off again.
@@AA-jt8xn I am not exactly sure how the situation with my mother's eyebrows works. I just know that her eyebrows, and many other women from the period cannot grow their eyebrows back.
I have been wondering if some of these treatment oils work. They are ridiculously expensive, and as you pointed out, if the root has been damaged somehow it will not grow back. The active ingredients in these treatments seem to be caster and argan oil. It would be better to try this rather than get ripped off by the advertising. I have been plucking or years, so I have areas I would like to bushy-up a bit, but the subject is too sensitive for my mother!
@@sisterkerry if you have been plucking for years, chances are your hair follicle has been permanently damaged and the eyebrow hairs will never grow there again, but you can try the oils and see if that helps. If not, there’s other options that can help make it appear like you have hair there, for instance I don’t know if you know about microblading, it’s a tattoo done with semi-permanent ink so it fades in about 18-30 months. Maybe it’s something your mother would consider doing as well. A microblading artist takes their time to tattoo thin individual lines so it looks like eyebrow hairs. The outcome is very realistic! Its nothing like the horrible tattooed eyebrows from the 90s. Just look up “Microblading” on Google to see some examples.
Try Castor oil: hopefully not as cost prohibitive
“what do we do when we’re feeling crappy about ourselves? we cut our bangs a little too short and fuck with our eyebrows” this video came to me at a very relevant point in my life
did your brows and bangs survive this moment?
Mine did not, 1 shaved head and no eyebrows later I'm feeling great and highly motivated in life
Right I just trimmed my eyebrows Wednesday night all upset
I thought I was the only one who cut off their hair when bored or disgusted.
@@Midlife_Manical_Mayhem unfortunately not, i intended for my hair to be able to comfortably cover my eyes so that when paired with a mask i can have that sweet anonymity but ended up being a centimeter too short so the bangs just poke my eyes and my brows have one more slit in them than they did before.
luckily my hair is a combination of a death hawk and a shag so keeping everything out of my face is not out of the question and i actually enjoy how my brows look
Kind of sad to hear Rachel say there's nothing interesting going on on her face but her brows. She has a wonderfully expressive face that never fails to make me smile with her silliness and whimsy. 🥰 We love a #relatable queen.
Eyebrows do still definitely have a purpose. I have alopecia and my eyebrows come and go.
When my eyebrows are non-existent, more dust and stuff seems to get in my eyes. Even if my lashes are still there. They come and go too.
When my brows are nonexistent and I sweat, bing! Right into the eyes. When they are there, they block most sweat and channel it to the sides.
As mine are intermittent, I definitely notice they have a real purpose. So there ya are. :)
interesting
I think I saw somewhere on amazon you can get stick on eyebrows, bit like fake lashes. I wonder if they make a difference to the sweat/dust factor when your brows take a holiday? Idk might be fun to try if you've not come across it 🤷♀️
Rachel just casually inventing cat brows and they were sisters not twins...I mean ICONIC.
😂 cat brows
She started secret pants, now cat brows. We must make make them a thing now.
Former drag queen and movie aficionado who thinks your tutorial is superb! Your Audrey brows look lovely on your angelic face. You probably know about Lana Turner & Lucille Ball, who had their brows shaved relentlessly in the 1930s early in their careers, so makeup artists could pencil in those thin brows, then their eyebrows never grew back and they had to pencil them in for the rest of their lives. Lucy went for the utterly surprised look late in life, with brows hovering about an inch from her hairline, which always made me smile. Cheers~
I adore Lucille Ball 💜. I grew up watching reruns of I Love Lucy.
okay but low-key every time the black and white filter went on, everything just fell into place and it looked iconic. I guess what I'm saying is : you ARE a movie star !
I was about to comment just that. The black & white really sold the vintage look. I guess Rachel assumes those actresses' brows were done perfectly & didn't have any blotchiness, weird texture or uneven color, but maybe they did and it was just b&w magic hiding all the sins
I second that.
Yes I was looking for thi comment, or to make it myself. Part of why those looked so good was the black and white
In my late 50's so have seen everything from shaving them off completely to massive caterpillars that virtually meet in the middle. At 13, one of my mother's best friends was a French make-up artist .... She did the first plucking for me, showed me how to look after them and how to use was .... And then gave me one piece of fantastic advice to never follow fashion as your face shape and eyes should dictate the best frame for you.
You have really beautiful eyes by the way!
And I had fun here! Eyebrows are the bane of my existence! Since the 70s and Twiggy my inability to refrain from taking tweezers to eyebrow has been fraught with regret! Now in my late 60s my eyebrows have become meager little ragged worms of their former selves! I am so happy you haven't gone down the path of the evil "trend" and have lovely, nay, gorgeous eyebrows!💚
Omg same! If I can draw them on at least as cousins I'm happy!
My mom fell prey to that trend recurring in the 90’s, and she still hasn’t gotten her luscious brows back. Thankfully, I gave up on my face and all trends a long time ago, so my brows are intact
@@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro My best friend lost most of her brows to 90s tweezing too and even today has very 1930s brows. I came close but luckily I grew back about 3/4 of my original brows. Still, I wish I had kept the tweezers away from my face.
@@pompe221 I ravaged my eyebrows in the 90's, and have meager make up skills. Microblading has been one of the best things I've done for my face. Although now i feel like I need filler for my frown lines.
The 90s and early 2000s did that to me, too. I also unfortunately pluck/pull my eyebrows as a nervous tick. They are not doing great 😆
I am grateful for my grandmother telling me I have nice eyebrows and not to pluck them away. I was able to get through the 90s over plucked brows trend unscathed. So now am on trend whenever natural brows come back into fashion. 😄
I only pluck the stray hairs from underneath/between my brows I look terrible with thin eyebrows I like mine a little thicker but also cleaned up somewhat.
Actually, I think those shorter bangs are super cute on you! Even better than the longer ones. They suit your face really well. ☺️💜
NGL i liked almost (and especially) all the thinner eyebrows on you!!😍
(except for those ridiculous jean harlow ones that just look weird on their own imo)
Here's what vibes each set of those eyebrows gave me on you:
clara bow - cartoonish cute,
marlene dietrich - femme fatale,
billie holiday - cute and sophisticated,
rita hayworth - elegant,
marilyn monroe - most natural
thank you for making and sharing this video with us!❤
It was so interesting to see how dramatically your eyebrow movements stood out when you did the 1920s!
Every time there are cool little sound effects I just picture editing Rachel sitting at her desk in a snuggie or something saying “power of the eyebrow” into a mic a good few times and it makes my day every time lol
Sophia Loren in the 60s had some of the most amazing brows I've ever seen, it sounds crazy but they were so artfully done
I copied photos of her when I was first learning to do my make up in the early 90s
Oh yes!
I really wanted to see a 60s eyebrow too
Also, the iconic side eye, I swear it's hysterically funny!
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Yes, I agree! Sophia's eyebrows were beautiful!
An absolut gem of comedy and make up as usual !
P.S : heard the self-directed "you suck" in the bloopers and just wanted to say that you do not and that you're an inspiration for me and so many other people and we love to see you do whatever you do and we love you loads, makeup, no mock up sewing projects and tornado mode, everything ❤
I loved this eyebrow journey! Do more please! Also I naturally have the pointy Bacall/villain eyebrows, and, when I was younger, as an introvert with a RBF, people were always asking what I was so mad about or assuming I was not a nice person. I'm certain my villain brows played a large roll in those incorrect readings of me, and it used to really bother me so I had tried playing around with different brow shapes, but l never really found something I liked. Now in my late 30s and not caring one bit what other people think, I love my brows and am fully and proudly embracing my natural villain look, lol 😈
I'm not gonna lie the cat brows are quite impressive xx
My favourite was the cat brows, I'm gonna do them tomorrow and combine them with cat liner... its gonna be villain chic I'm excited
The cat eyebrows! I love them! As a pale blonde whose eyebrows are Matt Smith level nonexistent, I love drawing in brows. It makes such a difference!!
I really liked the Rita from 40’s eyebrows. They suited Rachel pretty well in my opinion.
This was amazing 😂 Cat brows was indeed my favorite. I kindly ask for a part two for the 50’s-2000’s. I need to see some 80’s Brooke Shield brows 😄
Strangely, this boosted my self confidence. I've been feeling bad about myself that I have "no" eyebrows without makeup from over-plucking (actually just thin/sparse ones), and this video made me see how much my perception is dictated by the current style of thicker, filled-in brows. Thanks for the reality check about eyebrow thickness just being a matter of changing fashions. :-)
It's wild how crazy all these look in color and how natural they seem the second the black and white filter goes on.
I’m going to say something controversial but I get excited every time I see a sponsored video on this channel because I know it means you’re making the money you deserve for giving us amazing content.
This serves two purposes - the Rachel Maksy fanbase and the Jenna Marbles fanbase. And many of us are both. Thank you, majestic Queen.
I wax my brows into little alien nubbins and I can tell you- i love how they look on me, but you are so right that not every eveybrow trend is for every person. How you do your eyebrows can be just as wonderful a way to express yourself as any other thing like makeup ect! I think people should do their brows how they feel beautiful and powerful!
I've done the alien nubbin look too, but the upkeep just wasn't for me. I'm lazy. ^_^
alien nubs ftw!!!
This was what I needed tonight, thank you Rachel! I laughed properly and it was so good for my soul. Cat brows are absolutely IT, but I also loved the Marilyn and Audrey on your not at all mundane face 🥰
The reason Marilyn's eyes looked "squinty" other than the "bedroom eyes" makeup techniques she used, was because she had partially hooded lids.
You look incredible eyebrows done or not, btw!
I could count the amount of times I've worn makeup on one hand but now I want to do CatBrows every goddamn day for the rest of my life
It’s giving vintage glam Jenna marbles and I’m here for it
Definitely was thinking of the Nike logo and the hell yeah brows the whole time
Thanks, I couldn't place who this reminded me of
Rachel has the perfect vintage Jenna energy
HELL YEAH
Hell yeah!
Thank you for always being so wonderfully you, Rachel! I homeschool my girls (ages 7 & 9) & you are a big inspiration to us that you can do anything in this life if you are passionate about it. So, thank you for continually showing up in our lives with this message & so many other great messages/learning opportunities for us. We adore you. Also, we downloaded June's Journey & it is so fun!!
It's wild how much eyebrows can change your face! Plucking mine makes my face look like a swollen tomato for three days after, so I've really gotten into the trend of shaving the tails off. I've tried upturned ends, leaving them round little ovals, longer, shorter, little ends, thick ends, and everything in between, and it's so fun! It's so hard to choose a favorite, but I'm definitely going to be taking some inspo from eyebrow history going forward!
Rachel~ you are a natural beauty! As someone who has struggled with eyebrow issues since I was 12 (& I'm 57 now), I sure do appreciate the time, research and explanations you gave in this video... and especially your patience & skills in recreating each of those different styles for us!
AS A CHARACTER ARTIST THIS IS SO FUN TO WATCH
Eyebrows make such a difference in how a person looks.
I thought the Marilyn Monroe ones were the best.
I found the Marilyn Munroe look with the hobbit colouring quite shocking and jarring. Not in a judgemental way, but in that they have never been juxtaposed (held side by side) for me before
@@greatauntlizbethg9137 I can understand that.
I'm sorry you're feeling down on yourself. Your face isn't mundane. Watching your videos always brightens the day for me and my daughter. Thank you for continuing to make cute, fun and heartfelt content.
This was so fun! I didn't know I have forties eyebrows.. it's hard to not look like the wicked witch when I try to just barely darken them. Rachel was so accurate on these different brow looks, and made them fun to watch.
I love the short bangs! And I loved the Billy Holiday brows! 🫶
i'm wallowing in self pity and dealing with awful cramps rn, and this is exactly what i needed to watch rn :)
Hope you feel better soon!
Saaame! Hope you feel better darlin'.
I vowed to grow my eyebrows out after a waxer ripped off my tail and told me just "draw it in". So in that journey I realized silent film brows are kind of the best. This video gave me a good chuckle
This is great for those of us who struggle with "sisters not twins" eyebrows. I have one that is an easy Marilyn and one that I battle in to a Marilyn like shape.
This shows how much a difference a brow can make. 😏
Rachel, I just want to say that the ad timer is very appreciated, thank you!
The humour in this video was a level beyond anything we’ve seen! Thanks so much Rachael 😊
You look weirdly adorable without eyebrows! 😂 It really highlights how lovely your facial features and especially your eyes are.
As a professional face painter, I approve of "Art, you wear on your face" 😁
It is crazy how much different eyebrow shapes can evoke a certain era
This was a random YT recommendation and I'm so glad I hopped in! Rachel is a GREAT name! 😌 I loved all the history trivia and the humor is refreshing! Subscribed right away! 👏🏽
Welcome! 😊 As Rachel so accurately says, "We have fun here"... mostly just seeing what amazingly weird & creative thing she will come up with next, and enjoying her hilarious commentary thereto!
Catbrows for the win! 😆
Crazy how you look SO GOOD equally with Billie Holiday and Audrey Hepburn eyebrows! We love a versatile queen!
Some of these were so ✨cursed✨ I freaking loved every minute.
I didn't even think for a second the bangs were too short, they look stylish and nice💖👌🤌
I generally just make sure my eyebrows are somewhat groomed and then hide them under my bangs. Lol
And you are STUNNING. You definitely and naturally have a way of fitting seamlessly into any era's looks and looking like you would have been in all the top media of the time. You just have this classic and timeless beauty. 😍🤩🥰
My sister who has invisible eyebrows started using Just for Men beard and brow colour, she uses the medium brown. It is great for her eyebrows because it works for facial hair. I highly recommend it, will make doing your eyebrows so much easier, even when you do not do them you will look like you did. Best part is one box last ages as you only need a bit at a time.
I'm pretty sure cat-brows are the future, but I have to admit before I saw the cat shape I thought Rachel was doing handle bar eyebrows. Which I also think have potential. Can we get a video of ✨whimsical brows✨?
I like the Rita eyebrows the most on you. Truly a look
I laughed SO HARD at the 1930s eyebrows! But I think with the 1920s ones you looked so cute and adorable!
Honestly, Rachel, the Marlene Dietrich brows TOTALLY suit you once you put on the black and white filter. I think it's the shadow of your natural brows that's throwing you off in person.
Either way, your entire face is a good face and it's fun to be here while you experiment with different looks of all kinds!
What eyebrows can do to your face is amazing! 💫
The marilyn brows were my favorite! For the skinny brows I liked Darlene Dietrich and Billy Holiday. I actually felt like the Dietrich looked pretty elegant for what it was!
The fun thing about the Snow White eyebrows is that, with your hair like that and one of the outfits you were wearing in your rustic wood beam project, I really thought you looked like Disney's Snow White, at the cottage, but wearing her wishing well dress. It made me happy, and you mentioning Snow White here made it so much more so.
I prefer a more natural-looking eyebrow than super thin and super thick. I think all the non-extreme ones look great on you! I love how you call out eyebrow fashion. We don't all need to go chasing every crazy beauty trend that comes whizzing through the nets. Do what looks good on you!
It's fun to see your celebrity impressions because they are so generally familiar to us all. I wonder also what actual pedestrians were wearing during these times (as opposed to screen stars). I'm pretty sure my grandma's contemporaries shaved their eyebrows at certain points in their lives. Maybe even she did!
i think we just get so used to our face looking the way it usually looks that when we change something, in this case: eyebrows, we literraly don’t see if it fits us. bc i think there were at least 3 styles that looked amazing on you! now i’m off to trying out different eyebrow shapes on myself!
real talk - Rita Hayworth's eyebrows look SOOOOOO good on you!
I love Fridays, specifically for this. Thanks for the great content! ❤️
I loved this style of video! It was great to get some backstory about the decades and the specific actresses.
Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe styles looked really great with your facial structure! 😍 Really cool vid idea.
Oh, I cracked up ever so much with your jolly commentary. 😂😂 Esp. the dragon-to-cat eyebrows. What a trend.
Honestly I really really enjoyed those kitty cat brows. They looked so sweetly curled up just sitting above your eyes. Plus you can say "those brows are the cats meows! " Hahaha love it. Might try them out sometime 😎😺
Killer production guys. The editing, the clips inserted... All the things. This was wonderful.
Girl, yet again…you never cease to amaze me
Thanks for the note about everyone having different bases for their eyebrows. I loved the catbrows btw!
RACHEL! This was so fun. I was getting major Death Becomes Her vibes when you were patching your blocked out eyebrows in between looks 😂
I laughed so many times during this video! Inspired! The thin Rita brows actually looked pretty nice on you. 😄 I really want to try the Audrey brows now
Eyebrows are not just decorative; as you said, they are expressive and communicative, and you use yours well for both🙂
When I was Columbia in my local chapter of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, who performed every Saturday for 4 years...I shaved my brows off and basically looked like your Jean Harlow eyebrows all. The. Damn. Time. Twas not my best look, but a look! I called myself Casual Columbia 😅. Between that and 1990s Gwen Stefani brows I have no more brows to give 😂
9:04 ngl you ROCKED these brows. Esp in black & white 🤩🤩🤩
Best thing to come on on my brow-zer in a long time! Thanks Rachel!
Rachel: "curtains, now purely decorative"
Me, with my carefully curated set up of black out curtains, sheers, AND blinds on each window, to let in the right amount of light (or not) at the right time: . . . 👁️👄👁️
I loved the thinner brows on you and personally think the Rita Hayworth brows looked best on you!
Thank you for this incredibly entertaining video! Your eyebrows-experiments were hilarious! I liked the dragon eyebrows the most!
Oh this was super interesting! You can pull off some of those thin eyebrows so well! And the cat eyebrows were just perfection. Thank you for always being you!
I think with the Jean Harlowe brows, you didn't take into account that her eyes are a *lot* closer together than yours. If you look where her brows start, running horizontally parallel, they're immediately above her eye's inner corner. Your eyes are much more wide set, and you started the brow a good centimetre behind the inner corner, so that probably added to the brows looking strange.
TBH, I have to admit I feel like the look is pretty strange on Jean too? 🤦🏻
Definitely made me wonder how much was generalized trends of the day, how much just Hollywood being Hollywood, and how much the preference of a particularly actress...?
I cackled when you started singing "Bye Bye Baby..." CACKLED!! 🤣🤣🤣 I've been signing it to myself for days, so this is perfect. 👩🏼🍳💋
Cat-brows are new goals. Thank you for always bringing light to my life!!
I had SUCH a bad start to my day mental health wise and I'm really glad I took the time to have breakfast and watch a lighthearted video (which is my routine) anyway. This made me laugh and cheered me up a lot. Thank you, Rachel! ❤
I was quite literally cackling throughout this entire video. Love your stuff Rach
As someone with wild eyebrows like a pack of wolves just shed all their fur onto my forehead and are now they've become sentient, forming their own pack to go attack lesser weaker eyebrows for prey...
This is magic.
I really liked the Lauren Bacall eyebrows, they came off as really confident and attractive to me
That was so fun!
The Dragon Brows actually looked kinda cool.
BTW, the short bangs look great on you.
You should do a real life June's journey outfit.
You look stunning with and without eyebrows. How can such beauty exist???
I really enjoyed this. I remember I took a face shaver to my brows to try and shape them for the first time in high school. Lets just say I don't trust myself to do more than shave the tops and in between them. These were so thin and I remember my mom taking me to ulta to pick out a brow product. It did grow back but wow it was rough. Keep up the good work Rachel :)
Yes, catbrows are my favourite ! I genuinely laughed when you made those ! I feel like Amanda Palmer eyebrows could have had a little cameo in the artsy eyebrow section.
Your videos are so comforting ❤️
I LOVE the short bangs on you!!
I laughed SO HARD, girrrrrrl! Thank you so much, this is what an edu-tainment should look like ALWAYS
The bangs are so cute, Rachel!!
Rita Hayworth looks surprisingly good! You looked great with those.
I loved the Rita Hayworths on you, they're giving me Evelyn O'Connell vibes. I have naturally thin brows with a high arch - I don't tend to do anything except dye them to match my dark brown hair. Thick brows really aren't my taste and I don't think they suit as many people as there are wearing them! lol