BROWS AND LASHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21292, 20 September 1932, Page 9

BROWS AND LASHES

GIRLS' BEAUTY CULTURE SCIENTIST'S COMMENTS LONDON. Sept. 14 Girls who pluck their eyebrows and curl their eyelashes in imitation of screen beauties follow a practice begun by monkeys thousands of years ago, according to Professor Zuk, a Czecho-Slovak scientist.

Negroes and Mongols plucked their eyebrows in order to gain a youthful appearance, the professor continued, in an address before the British Science flongresa. Experiments showed that babies' eyebrows were almost straight and the eyelashes turned up. The eyebrows curved and the lashes straightened as they grew up. What film stars did, without realising its scientific meaning, was to revert to the baby face. Professor Zuk added that eyebrows and lashes were inevitably hereditary. Whatever the colour of the parents' eyes and hair, the children's eyebrows were always the colour of one of them. A message from Paris says the thin, high-arched eyebrows of .summer are being replaced by tufted eyebrows, following the curve of the eyelid to half-way, then suddenly curving upward into a point, like a butterfly's antennae, giving an expression of meditation and youth.