Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Unibrow-A thing of Beauty?

If you were to google "unibrow" in the US, you would probably find thousands of links and ads to waxes and tweezers and most definitely how to get rid of the bushy caterpillars above our eyes.  In Tajikistan, the unibrow is a thing of beauty.  If you were to google unibrow here in Tajikistan using a Tajik browser (which doesn't exist, but if it did...) you would find loads of links to buy a type of paste to darken up those beauties.  The popular herb called Usma, which is dried in the sun for a couple of hours, ground up into a paste, is rubbed into your eyebrows (and the space between!) to give a dark, rich look.
I have also learned that women here will leave their eyebrows unkempt and unplucked until marriage. After marriage, they will begin to tweeze them.  On a personal note, if it were me, I would pluck until marriage and then stop!
Here is a picture of a woman at the bread store. She looks angry, but I think it's just because of her eyebrows. 

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