19-yr old Anthony Davis, the 2.08m Olympic hopeful basketball player, has asked his lawyers to trademark his ‘unibrow’ and has registered the names Fear the Brow and Raise the Brow ahead of London 2012. The fame of Davis’s eyebrow grew at college when retailers tried to cash in by selling brow-related merchandise without his approval. “I don’t want anyone to try and grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off it” said Davis.
What has Chinese Face Reading got to say about unibrows, burly beetle brows and unkempt whiskery brows that contrast so often to the female plucked ‘inverted comma’? All the facial features are linked to psychological\emotional profiling, health diagnosis and the influence of various planets (like a walking astrology chart!). Brows are one of our features which show the influence of Mars in a person’s life – in western terms, the planet of war, in Chinese Face Reading the planet of yang, masculine, fire energy. Whether short, owlish, wiry or elegant, those awnings over the eyes show our get-up-and-go, strength, power and stamina, drive and mental energy, and how we relate to partners, family and society. And they’re a pointer to how a person uses that energy – the thicker, the more assertive their owner.
Davis’s unibrow is the meeting of two fiery planets. Perfect for a sportsman! On court he’d be determined, aggressive, resourceful and goal-directed. With a unibrow, the mind is always working overtime, and ideas flying. Davis’s brows are also angled upwards – he’s out-front, a confident prime mover. The joined-brow person can sometimes be vengeful and possessive – to the extent of trademarking his facial features!
What has Chinese Face Reading got to say about unibrows, burly beetle brows and unkempt whiskery brows that contrast so often to the female plucked ‘inverted comma’? All the facial features are linked to psychological\emotional profiling, health diagnosis and the influence of various planets (like a walking astrology chart!). Brows are one of our features which show the influence of Mars in a person’s life – in western terms, the planet of war, in Chinese Face Reading the planet of yang, masculine, fire energy. Whether short, owlish, wiry or elegant, those awnings over the eyes show our get-up-and-go, strength, power and stamina, drive and mental energy, and how we relate to partners, family and society. And they’re a pointer to how a person uses that energy – the thicker, the more assertive their owner.
Davis’s unibrow is the meeting of two fiery planets. Perfect for a sportsman! On court he’d be determined, aggressive, resourceful and goal-directed. With a unibrow, the mind is always working overtime, and ideas flying. Davis’s brows are also angled upwards – he’s out-front, a confident prime mover. The joined-brow person can sometimes be vengeful and possessive – to the extent of trademarking his facial features!
Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist and feminist, was born in 1907 but gave her date of birth as 1910 to coincide with the Mexican revolution: a pointer to the militant and straightforward nature of a woman with a substantial unibrow. Unconcerned about the social mores of the time regarding women, she used those two fire planets to achieve a powerful career, even using her brows as one of her signature styles in her paintings.
Eric Cantona used his relentless burly-brow drive on the football field to become one of the most iconic players of his day. Those wiry and thick eyebrow hairs weren’t all flowing harmoniously in the same direction though, which betrayed that his energies could be chaotic at times, with poor control over his temper – and a conviction for assaulting a football fan.
The more hairs pointing upwards in the unibrow, the more rebellious the person’s nature! In the case of Liam Gallagher, member of the UK band Oasis and brother to Noel Gallagher, add ‘combustible tinderbox’ to that huge creative energy. The drive, vitality and life force shown in his thick brows would also have helped him to survive an abusive childhood and violent father.
Along with all the rumpled (and sensitive) male brows, history has thrown up some real extremes: the former leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, had brows which shouted stubborn, bully and no room for negotiation. The square, heavy faces, jaws and brows of Fascist dictators and their hard line Communist regimes reflected the Cold War politics of the time. There was little room for movement or compassion – only the black and white of ideology and utopia: “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic” – Stalin.
During his term in the White House cabinet as Secretary of State under George W. Bush, Colin Powell described the President as an ‘ideological hawk’ with his desire for military conflict and lack of diplomacy. Not surprising, as Bush’s just-about joined up and rough brows show his temper was often on a short fuse, and he could ride roughshod over people to get his own way.
In contrast to the unibrow, those glossy, glamorous Hollywood stars of the 20s all had one feature that, for a face reader, stood out from their black and white photos: their eyebrows were drawn in a thin line in pencil. This over- plucked variety showed that the stars had little power and were the property of the studios (apart from Marilyn Monroe, but that’s another blog post!).
The darker beetle brows of Hollywood heroes such as Cary Grant and Rock Hudson show more power, control and independence. Frida Kahlo was decades ahead of the 50s and 60s stars like Rossellini, Hepburn and later Meriel Hemingway whose heavier brows were symbolic of the change of women’s status in the film industry.