On the streets of smart east London we’ve seen everything from dip dying to pink highlights but the latest look is even more eye-catching. It’s a fashion modernism to coloring for, says Emma McCarthy
If the eyes are windows to your soul, it stands to motive the eyebrows are their all significant frames. So it should come as no revelation that the brows of the substitute and violently original tribes of east London have begun to take on a dissident exterior. No longer satisfied with only experimenting with statement fingernails (courtesy of Dalston’s Lady Glitter and WAH Nails), the capital’s most fashion ahead have taken their bold color statement upwards, with a full spectrum of shades coming to rest in its place on the brows.
For several seasons now, eyebrow grooming has been the center of attention for the gorgeousness industry, with full bodied and genderless styles replacing the pencil thin look popularized by the Wag pack. But with the thick, black felt-tip method of the Scousebrow quickly overtaking this country, it seems those who wish to raise a few eyebrows of their own have begun to look more afield as bog-standard brown no longer cuts the up-to-the-minute mustard.
Moving on from last year’s lightened brow, which took centre phase thanks to a host of lighten blonde bombshells with model Lara Stone and Lady Gaga, this year’s dye brow comes in a multitude of colors with rich shades of blue proving to be among the most trendy choices.
On the streets of London, two Shore ditch based purveyors of the trend, Steffen Davis and Luca Niccolini, both freshly took to the blue dye. “It’s not what you think,” says Davis, when quizzed on his striking brows, “it’s not fancy dress. I was dyeing a friend’s hair this color last dark so I just did my eyebrows too”
Similarly, fashion designer Niccolini explains: “I don’t really know why I colored them; I guess I was just a tad bored with my own color.”
Choosing the less enduring but no less vivid way of a quick pencil fill-in, sisters Kelly-Marie and Chelsea Saunders both sported two-tone brows in sunglasses of pink, mauve and turquoise while shopping in Portobello bazaar.
Quick to get note of the city’s most inventive style plates, Prada’s latest walkway donation in Milan also showcased these hairy Technicolor garnishing, this time in a signal shade of orange and teamed with a black and violet smoky eye with a white inner waterline.
