February 21, 2020

Just when you think huge, prominent eyebrows may be going out of style...

"Unibrowed model Sophia Hadjipanteli takes London Fashion Week by storm" (NY Post). Lots of amazing photographs at the link. Is the model some sort of humorist — a satirist of beauty?

Here's the Instagram page for #unibrowmovement.

And here's "This Model Is Making the 'Unibrow Movement' Happen" (Glamour). It's from September 2017, so maybe it means the unibrow movement is not happening, since it hasn't happened yet. I, for one, am sick of having everyone's eyebrows in my face. Back off! And yet, I've got to say I find this more appealing that the overly made-up, un-unified eyebrows that have been annoying me.

Points for originality — and, yes, I know about Frida Kahlo — and naturalness, nerve, and humor:

81 comments:

Quaestor said...

It's a bit chilly for cold showers in the morning.

tim maguire said...

Ewww, no thank you. It wouldn’t be so bad if the eyebrows matched the hair, but as it is, she’s repulsive.

tim maguire said...

The only argument I can think of for leaving the unibrow is that it’s natural, the way god made her (which is a perfectly good argument), but this argument is wrecked by the bottle-blond hair.

John henry said...

Ugly.

John Henry

jaydub said...

If you think her brows are hairy you should see her back!

rehajm said...

Ed Asner brow but no beard or mustache means she's likely cultivating that look. Natural isn't really the idea.

Seeing Red said...

Frankenstein.

Or by all means, take us back to the 19th century or earlier.

rehajm said...

If there's a unibrow movement it could be a caterpillar.

JMW Turner said...

That's...uh...horrifying.

rhhardin said...

The unibrow lets you be supercilious and look down your nose at somebody at the same time.

Wilbur said...

Whoa!!

That picture certainly gets your attention at 6:30 AM.

I'm not repulsed, but it IS unusual. It would take some getting used to.

Bay Area Guy said...

We need a Harvard study to determine the effects of female unibrow on dating opportunies. I suspect the data will show a negative correlation.

Rusty said...

Not bad. For a Neaderthal.

Amadeus 48 said...

The horror! The horror!

One can pray that we never learn what is going on in those armpits.

Amadeus 48 said...

Today’s fragile young men are in no condition to deal with this.

From her arms, you are sent straight to the re-education camp.

Daniel Jackson said...

n'importe quoi

stevew said...

Not a look that I find attractive. Must be intended as humor, no?

R C Belaire said...

Just a bit freaky. Add in the lip job and no thanks.

Curious George said...

Wasn't she in Dodgeball? Great movie. Funny.

Amadeus 48 said...

Police were called to Bert and Ernie’s house on Sesame Street today as a result of a domestic dispute between the two elderly life partners. EMT unit was sent as Ernie appeared to be taken away unconscious on a stretcher, and police were seen leading Bert away in handcuffs. Sources told CNN that Bert had complained to Miss Piggy about Ernie’s wandering eye. “Piggy said Bert was increasingly distraught by Ernie’s attentions to unibrowed model Sophia Hadjipanteli. Bert told her that he had given the best years of his life to Ernie, and now Ernie was re-evaluating his life and his sexual orientation. Now he was obsessed with the young woman.”

Police sources, who remain anonymous because they are not authorized to speak to reporters, revealed that there appeared to have been a violent altercation at the residence. “It was a [expletive] blood bath in there,” said one policeman.

Jersey Fled said...

I'm guessing she got those eyebrows from Hairclub For Men. And the wax lips from a candy store.

Temujin said...

Neanderthal look takes London Fashion Week by storm.

Again- there is no accounting for taste. Foremost among those who make a living deciding what is good and bad taste.

Browndog said...

Posting that picture first thing in the morning is reader abuse.

MayBee said...

no

ngtrains said...

Agree with Browndog

Yuck

I don't think she's a natural blond,

JML said...

She majored in marketing. People are talking about her and it looks like her brow is giving her a good living. It looks ugly as hell to me, though.

Johnula said...

I've checked my calendar and it's not April 1st... I'm going to check again just to be sure.

Jake said...

Yeah. No.

Ryan said...

Are there even enough people with unibrows to start a "movement"?

It's odd, but doesn't necessarily make a person unattractive. What makes this model look weird is more the contrasting hair colors, which she does on purpose by dying her eyebrows.

Ryan said...

It's ironic that she supposedly promotes a body positivity movement, but still has to modify her body with hair dye.

Darrell said...

But more importantly, is this one of those women with a dick that the NYT told me about? Once I see the DNA report, I'll decide about the unibrow.

Limited blogger said...

Love the darkness of the brows.

My mustache has gone white.

Marcus Bressler said...

Can you even imagine the forest of hairiness down THERE? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

THEOLDMAN

"If ya gonna eat mashed potatoes, peel them first!"

tcrosse said...

Frida Kahlo raises a few eyebrows

Roger Sweeny said...

Those lips sure don't look natural.

Fernandinande said...

Now do Eddie Munster.

Mary Beth said...

It's made weirder by brushing the brow hair straight up instead of in the direction it grows. It makes the rest of her face appear more attractive in contrast, where without the heavy brow, she'd just be generically attractive.

Maddad said...

Looks like a muppet.

policraticus said...

She is a Greek Cypriot. Her natural brows are what they are, she is a striking presence. But she’s no more “natural” than any other human. Is she a natural blonde? Color me skeptical. She’s wearing make up. That’s not natural. Her hair has been cut and styled. Her photograph has be manipulated by lighting and editing. If she doesn’t want to buy into the prevailing consensus about eye brows, that is fine by me, but don’t pretend it isn’t just as contrived and artificial as other fashion choices. It is her schtick. Good luck to her.

I don’t think she’s going to make “fetch” happen, though. It’s not going to happen.

Maillard Reactionary said...

Wow. She looks like one of those female aliens on Star Trek who Captain Kirk found so irresistible.

The Enterprise was out of port for long periods of time, so I can sort of understand it in his case.

ga6 said...

Lev Bronstein would approve...

Renee said...

But she probably waxed/lasered ever
Ry other part of her body.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Oh, dear. Not good. But hilarious so it’s all good.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

First Impression: When the Hell did Dolph Lundgren go trans?

DarkHelmet said...

This is less appealing than the moldy Whopper.

What are you trying to do to us today?

Quaestor said...

“It was a [expletive] blood bath in there,” said one policeman.

There was flocking all over the walls, stuck to everything. I've witnessed some horrendous crime scenes in my time on the force, but this one made me puke.

Big Mike said...

Sophia Hadjipanteli, what color is the sky on the planet where she comes from? Not to put too fine a point on it, she could play an alien in a Star Trek movie with no makeup whatsoever.

Big Mike said...

@Phiddipus, I apologize for overlooking your comment.

Maillard Reactionary said...

Big Mike and Phidippus are on the same page today.

J. Farmer said...

Prediction: unibrows will no more become a thing than fake camel toes did last year.

Wince said...

She must have a bush to beat the band.

Howard said...

Nobody minds women with facial hair as long as it's very blond and not readily noticeable.

Dagwood said...

Fernandistein said...

Now do Eddie Munster.



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Beat me to it. Crossed with a blonde Angelina Jolie?

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

Asking for help. Anyone remember this? Know where to find it.

Maybe 25+ years ago on TV somewhere what I recall was an hour long show of three, maybe four playlets or skits with the unifying memes of unibrows and werewolves. Nice costumes, clever writing - almost poetic. Think Little Red Riding Hood done as an adult romantic-tragical musical comedy. IIRC each skit ended with the line "Never ever trust someone whose eyebrows run together.

The tag-line surfaces from memory couple of times a year, compelling an unproductive search of the internet. Has to be a tape of it somewhere. It was a clever show I would really like to see again.

effinayright said...

Amadeus 48 said...
The horror! The horror!

One can pray that we never learn what is going on in those armpits.

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I hear she braids them using macramé knots.

n.n said...

Simulated cyclops.

mockturtle said...

Trying to decide which is more disgusting, her or the moldy burger. It's a tossup.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

I vote moldy burger for the "toss up."

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

HA! Betting it is "The Company of Wolves" with Angela Lansbury. Amazon has it, but not included in Prime Video. Hafta pay fer it to find out.

Yancey Ward said...

Curious George,

Yes, "Dodgeball" was my very first thought, too.

Earnest Prole said...

Does the shag carpeting match the drapes?

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

This Thread Is Depilating

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...
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Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Isnt that Van Halen's original lead singer?

walter said...

GEICO take notice.

Greg the class traitor said...

My god, that is hideously ugly.

I guess it's a natural progression: first they make the "clothes" repulsive, then they do the same for the models

Andrew said...

What ever happened to those beautiful and wholesome Ralph Lauren models from the 70s and 80s. The ones that said in interviews that when they arrived to RL photo shoots they were handed a bar of soap and told to wash their faces.

dbp said...

There is an idea that a single small imperfection accentuates beauty. I think the "small" part is being ignored in the case of Sophia Hadjipanteli. Also, arguably the "single" one too, with those lips.

Yikes! Maybe she grew-out her brows to take notice away from her lips?

The penultimate picture shows the young lady in a barely-there bikini. Ms Hadjipanteli is apparently not adverse to all hair removal. Thank God.

Narr said...

Prof, you're cruel! That's triggering to me.

Narr
And not in a good way

Jim at said...

Chaka. Land of the Lost

Andrew said...

I bet she has to wax her back.

Bunkypotatohead said...

Mona Gorilla

Bilwick said...

The horror . . . the horror . . .

Wince said...

"Kid had a bush like a 40-year-old Serbian."

Tomcc said...

There's a lot to dislike in that photo. It is challenging my perceptions of attractiveness.

Dave64 said...

Jesus Effing Christ!

n.n said...

Bearded ladies past. Fashion-forward yesterday. Serenity now (pun intended).

Hey Skipper said...

RUN! RUN FOR THE HILLS!

n.n said...

Mrs. Ogg

The Godfather said...

I used to have a kind of mild unibrow (I'm a guy), nothing like that model. I just had a little hair between my eyebrows. Then one day my wife said to me, You look like Sam Donaldson. So I immediately went and had the unibrow removed.

tim in vermont said...

Is this her father?

https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1231026074370310145