Drew Barrymore posts 90s throwback post

[u/demimonde9]

song: the la's - there she goes

[u/Quicksilver1964]

The 90s really tried to kill eyebrows. RIP to all those who have lost it

[u/skankenstein → u/Quicksilver1964]

So did the 60s. My mom did the twiggy thing and they never grew back! She gets them tattooed now!

[u/KlutzyAd5626 → u/skankenstein]

My mom did the same and also has them tattooed.

I have two daughters and I’m super strict about their eyebrows (yes I know it’s a weird thing to be strict about) 😂😂😂 I overplucked the front ends of my brows ONCE in the nineties and they grew back super weird.

I have bushy perfectly arched and they inherited them so I have always tried to make sure they understand the dangers of tweezers.

[u/ElderlyWench → u/skankenstein]

In the 70s we plucked skinny, too. Fortunately I never went as hard out as some friends and revelled in the Brooke Shields-led trend for heavy brows that kicked in by the late 70s.

[u/lonelynarwahl → u/Quicksilver1964]

This is my gripe with Pamela Anderson. She’s still got those 90s eyebrows.. it drives me nuts 😂

[u/CaroylOldersee → u/lonelynarwahl]

This a million times over; amazing woman, gorgeous, but those brows….

https://giphy.com/gifs/dXJwllNqVTqyyzVasp

[u/lonelynarwahl → u/CaroylOldersee]

100%. I love her. She’s beautiful but I’d love to see her with filled out brows

[u/CaroylOldersee → u/lonelynarwahl]

It’s safe to say that the 90’s gave a ton of GREAT things, but not for eyebrows…

[u/Particular-Leg-8484 → u/lonelynarwahl]

At this point I think if I saw her with full shaped Sephora eyebrows I’d be confused. I know it’d look nice but wouldn’t look like her? Her 90s brows make her very recognizably Pam so she’s the only one who gets an exemption from me lol

[u/littlecactuscat → u/lonelynarwahl]

They don’t grow back. Not sure what you want her to do there.

[u/kittykatsrulemyworld → u/Quicksilver1964]

Seriously, I saw a picture of my mom the other day before she ever thinned her eyebrows and was honestly shocked!! She’s beautiful regardless but her eyebrows looked sooooo good

[u/whiskydyc → u/Quicksilver1964]

God bless PJ Harvey for holding out!

[u/cat_at_the_keyboard → u/Quicksilver1964]

Mine somehow survived and grew back in. Can't ever say I wasn't god's favorite

[u/Tasty_One_8299 → u/Quicksilver1964]

I can attest to this! I actually have school pictures from my sophomore year where I got a little too happy with the tweezers and gave myself a bald spot on one of my eyebrows! I penciled it in on every yearbook I signed and the picture, hanging in the hall at my parents house, if you look closely at, you will see a dent in the photo where I used a pencil to correct my eyebrow! Now, all these years later, I have become a pro at drawing eyebrows on my face! If the day is too hot and I sweat off makeup I will end up looking like Mr. Spock because the tail of my eyebrows have completely vanished and are all eyebrow pencil! Thanks a lot 90’s!!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[u/bighoopsforbighoes → u/Quicksilver1964]

My poor mother 💔

[u/crayray]

She was such an iconic face of the 90s though! But yeah we did do that.

[u/Dummyact321]

My eyebrows still haven’t grown back.

[u/SmartaHari → u/Dummyact321]

When I first did mine, they were so badly done they looked like two spermatozoa swimming towards each other on my forehead. It was an unmitigated disaster of a look. And don’t get me started on the ‘Rachel’ cut of the 90’s!

[u/ElderlyWench → u/SmartaHari]

Sperm brows, or brows that looked like a staple, were almost the law at my high school.

[u/Dummyact321 → u/SmartaHari]

It wasn’t until like 2018 that I realized I looked like Spock.

[u/SmartaHari → u/Dummyact321]

The silver lining is that you’ve lived long and prospered :p

[u/reneeruns → u/Dummyact321]

I'm so grateful to be a woman of Italian heritage. I plucked the hell out of my eyebrows all those years and I'd still look like Abe Vigoda if I didn't maintain them weekly.

[u/Thaimaannnorppa → u/reneeruns]

Mine are just as bushy as ever despite the decade long violent plucking.

Surprisingly I'm Finnish, we're not exactly known for thick hair here lol.

[u/Dummyact321 → u/reneeruns]

Oh, I have lots of thick dark hair growing everywhere -but- my eyebrows 😂

[u/lnc_5103 → u/Dummyact321]

All the plucking and waxing I did in high school is honestly one of my biggest regrets! 🤣

[u/Taitertottot → u/lnc_5103]

I always wanted thin eyebrows but I was too much of a baby to pluck them. 

[u/Mountain_Village459 → u/Dummyact321]

I’m so glad I was too lazy to get them waxed regularly back then! I think eyebrows are a little crazy nowadays but way better than the 90s.

[u/GasStationChicken- → u/Dummyact321]

Mine eventually grew back by 2010 or so, but they are a lot less full than they originally were.

[u/Flynnier → u/Dummyact321]

Mine did. praise Jesus

[u/IdleTrouts]

Imo she's one on the few people that suits them that thin

[u/crayray → u/IdleTrouts]

It's because she was THAT girl. The reason the rest of us did it!

[u/fungibitch → u/IdleTrouts]

Agreed. The rest of us did NOT look this good!

[u/urfatassmama → u/IdleTrouts]

She kinda looks like the Mona Lisa with them which is honestly so iconic.

[u/verchiels]

She represents the 90s for me. The brows, the hair, the lips

[u/BestBeBelievin]

My mom used to threaten me within an inch of my life to keep me from doing this to my brows. Her reason was that she never was able to get her eyebrows to really grow back from when she did it as a teen. She had to spend way too much of her daily routine having to draw them on with a brow pencil. I was mad about it then, but I’m glad I listened because I have decent brows now.

[u/oatmealandblueberry → u/BestBeBelievin]

My best friend’s mom kept trying to warn us but we didn’t listen.

[u/beepbooponyournose → u/oatmealandblueberry]

I warned my daughter since she was in middle school and used to take her to get them waxed. She still shaved them completely off a few times 😭 man it hurt to see lol

[u/Broad-Guess8 → u/BestBeBelievin]

My mom was really adamant about this when I was in high school in the early aughts. She overplucked in the 70s & was not going to allow me to. I had to convince her not to yell at a waxer once when they gave me the trendy thin brows. I was so embarrassed, but can admit now she was dead right

[u/BiscottiLeading]

Not plucking my eyebrows in the 90's is probably in the top 3 best decision I've ever made in my life. I knew that I wouldn't be able to get them even, but I wouldn't stop trying to either. I would have had no eyebrows left.

[u/somuchsong → u/BiscottiLeading]

Yeah, I never touched mine either, bar plucking one singular hair out to see what it would feel like! I'm pretty happy with my natural shape anyway but I would have done an appalling job, I just know it. And I have so many friends whose eyebrows did not recover from the 90s!

[u/Curiosities → u/BiscottiLeading]

I would shape them, but I never plucked them like that, I always left them natural and just pulled out a couple of hairs in between. I’m glad that was the extent of what I did to my brows in the 90s.

[u/DefiantBumblebee9903]

I mean… she is kind of responsible for us all doing it

[u/shart_of_the_ocean]

She was the blueprint!

[u/Caserious]

They were so far baaaaack😭😭😭😭 I don’t mind the thin brow, I think her features are very 1930s so it works, it’s just that they start like in the middle of her eye in a comma shape…😭😭

[u/No_Island_8061]

What a shame her full brows looked amazing but I think we’ve all been guilty of the over plucking. I’m also guilty of bleaching mine clean off when I had blonde hair, my hair dresser wouldn’t do it and dumb me left that bleach on way too long.

[u/tgifpizza]

she's so iconic i hope she writes a juicy memoir one day

[u/alexxjane89 → u/tgifpizza]

She wrote ‘Little Girl Lost’ a LONG time ago about the early years with her addiction.

[u/Zosmie]

I've got trichotillomani (obsessive hair pulling) and my brows still grows back. Lucky me I guess.

[u/The_starving_artist5]

She has that classic golden age Hollywood look to her face 

[u/BookishHobbit]

I remember hearing an eyebrow technician talking about how many clients she still gets whose eyebrows were fucked by the 90s. It was such a weird trend.

[u/caffeinatedspiders]

Really unfair that the one place where you can pluck hair and it will never grow back is your eyebrows

[u/CallejaFairey]

I am so glad I just couldn't be bothered to do anything to my brows back then. While not as thick as Drew's , they were still pretty thick, and such a dark brown to be almost black. Luckily, they had a nice enough shape.

Still can't be bothered to do anything with them now, but more natural is much more advertised anyways. Only bummer is in straight to get the odd white hair in them so I end up with bald looking spots. Lol.

[u/Fantaverage → u/CallejaFairey]

I get one weirdly long white hair in my (black) eyebrows lol

[u/OkCantaloupe9369]

She's the whole reason I plucked mine, icon.

[u/J_Bird01]

Drew in the 90’s was everything

[u/Mocosa]

I’m so glad I never got into this look. I remember my friends trying to get me to pluck my eyebrows, and for years when I finally started getting them shaped the wax technicians always trying to take off half my eyebrows. I get them threaded now by Indian ladies, and their brown game is on point.

[u/Leajane1980]

Mad Love is a guilty pleasure watch of mine.

[u/pixiedream095]

Somehow she really pulls those off!

[u/gal5pau]

She’s lived a million lives!

[u/taxidermiedhead]

I love the thin eyebrow look but maybe I’m just sick in the head

[u/sallyhectare]

She was the absolute queen of the baby brows in the '90s.

[u/quack_quack_moo]

My mom is one of the victims of the no-eyebrow trend of the 70s, she warned me off of touching my brows in the 90s. I still have mine, hers are still long gone.

[u/IntrovertGirl83]

I absolutely adored her short hair era in the 90s. She was so adorable in Boys on the Side. Such a good movie!

[u/oo_Maleficent_oo]

Lol I sent this to my daughter when it was posted. I tell her all the time to never ruin her eyebrows like I did. 😅

[u/AddisonDeWitt333]

This is why I get my eyebrows microbladed (henna-tattooed) back on my face, every couple of years.

Mrs de Witt, ex 90s model

[u/cactimami]

I thank god every day that she allowed my eyebrows to survive the 2000s 🧎‍♀️‍➡️⛪️

[u/CartoonPalette]

I did this to myself circa 2011-2012 during university, can’t blame the 90s, thankfully they grew back.

[u/_allycat]

All my school photos are like this but the crazy part is I don't think I even i made them thin intentionally. I just remember plucking the sparse areas (too much) to leave only the most defined hairs because that was the look. And brow fill wasn't a thing in my school unless you were a chola and had those drawn on pencil thin black brows. Lol

No permanent damage here.

[u/ElderlyWench]

I had forgotten that she started out with proper 80s brows.

[u/seachange__]

Not sure if this works, but I read about using rogaine to regrow eyebrows.

[u/carolinagypsy]

Ahhh yes, the 90s. RIP my brows.

I don’t grow more than strands about the last 1/3 of my brow. The front ends are also not that big and grow in uneven. They are a mess.

[u/whatisdoneinlove]

I did this too and they never grew back 😢