Geometry

The wholly drawn brow: something you still see occasionally, on both young and old. A look that was popular in the 20s and 30s, but is less fashionable today, and is, I imagine, very awkward to maintain. I always wonder at the story behind (outside of an unfortunate, unpremeditated hair loss): Was there an irresistible urge to painfully pluck tiny hair after tiny hair in pursuit of the perfectly feminine line, until- oh, look! Nothing left! At which point something pencilled in became preferable to a blank space. Or.. was it perhaps a more whole-hearted act of auto-creation- the erasure of what nature had bestowed, followed by a little artful D.I.Y.? In so many cases, the un-natural result looks just that, a rather unsatisfactory version of nature, badly-drawn even when drawn perfectly. Or perhaps, just unfashionable.