Skinny brows are back – but there’s more to this trend than meets the eye

‘Bella Hadid (pictured), Alexa Demie and Kendall Jenner have joined team skinny brow.’ Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA

In 2016, I wrote a feature about how eyebrows were “the beauty obsession of the decade”. Six years on, we’re in a new decade but the obsession continues – it’s just the shape that has changed. Back in the mid-2010s, Cara Delevingne was the undisputed queen of eyebrows, with her “big brow” the gold standard. In 2022, tweezers are back – and so is the skinny eyebrow, last seen in Gen Z’s favourite Y2K era.

‘Rihanna appeared on the cover of British Vogue with eyebrows worthy of Marlene Dietrich in 2018.’ Photograph: Conde Nast/PA