Keira Knightley’s Fierce Eyebrows
July 10, 2006 by Christina Jones
Filed under Beauty, Eyes, Hair Care, Hair removal
And when I say fierce, it is not the good fierce! I think Keira is very beautiful, but what makeup artist in her right mind would leave those brows in that kind of shape? I know, I am a little fixated on eyebrows sometimes, but I really think they make a tremendous difference in your looks and they are a simple thing to groom properly, and most often, when I find someone beautiful to be odd looking, it is their overgrown brows (Jennifer Aniston). Here is Keira on the July InStyle cover:
This example is not the best one, but it is the only good one I could find of her looking straight on at the camera with no hair covering half her face. Her brows need to have about 1/4 inch plucked off of the inner edge of each one:
They are beautiful eyebrows, they really are. They are just too darned close together. Here is a much worse eyebrow picture from the Pirates of the Caribbean premiere (from InStyle.com):
In this picture, not only are her brows just too close together, the color is heinous. Heinous. Granted, I am not generally an advocate of bleaching your eyebrows, as it just too easy to over lighten them and then they really look bad, but, in this instance, if she is going to lighten her hair that much, please do something about those jet black, too close together caterpillars brows.
hele, where have you heard that she thinks she’s the best? where have you heard that that’s because she has played alongside johnny depp? and where on earth did you hear she thinks she can do anything just because she’s a star? i think you’ll find, if you ever read any interviews with her that she mostly moans about the whole thing and was fairly recently thinking about giving up on acting becasue she can’t cope with fame! i agree with eh, thank goodness i don’t just make decisions based on other people’s opinions!
Oh just leave Keira alone! She looks gorgeous 24/7 and I always thought that her eyebrows were one of her best features!
I think her eyebrows are pretty. And why is everyone having a discussion about a celeberty’s eyebrows? I mean if you talk about anything, the last thing I would want to talk about is someone’s eyebrows. Come on just leave her alone.
I agree with onlyme. Why take something beautiful and make it merely pretty?
The “imperfection” of her eyebrows only serve to highlight the perfection of her skin and bone structure. Great post, I don’t even have time to read all the responses in the debate you inspired on beauty in the modern age. Bravo….
I like her eyebrows, they are very pretty the way they are. I’m sick of the skinny eyebrows of the 90’s
First of all, I would just like to say to everyone not liking her eyebrows, that really guys, its personal preference… She likes her eyebrows like that, then she should leave them like that, and not change them because people don’t think they look good.
Another thing with Keira Knightley in the pictures above is you have to looks at them… The first one is for a magazine (with lots of excess makeup and airbrushing), while the second one is just a premiere… so virtually no post-processing of the picture… I find that the makeup is really what affects the pictures here…
On the first picture, her eyebrows look uneven because she’s lifting the eyebrow on the right slightly, so it becomes more curved than her other one… I have the same thing, and I don’t even notice that i’m doing it sometimes… So all she needs to do is relax her eyebrows and forehead and you’ll see that her eyebrows match…
On the third picture, I’m pretty sure its the makeup that makes her eyebrows look weird… Although I agree her eyebrows are dark (like her natural hair colour) compared to the dyed colour, I’m pretty sure that her makeup artist or whoever did her makeup used a dark eyebrow pencil that was obviously wrong for her… It makes her eyebrows look almost dark grey! Not a very good look!
If you look at some of her pictures where she’s just walking down the street or shopping or whatever, she usually has much less makeup on with regards to her eyebrows, and so she looks better in those.
Although I really disagree with everyone saying that she needs to pluck more eyebrows… I find that her eyebrows are perfect for her, and they are not too close together… I personally draw and photograph alot of different people and I find that once you have too much gap between the eyebrows, you just start to look weird!
Personally, I find that the eyebrow “rules” that are given are not very practical… They might work on some people, but not on everybody… It really depends on the person and their faces (and the shape of their faces) as well as their eyebrow… I find that it is best, when plucking eyebrows, is to just “clean” them, so basically just removing the little hairs that are there above the eye and whatnot, and working with the natural shape of the person’s eyebrows from there (making them a bit thinner, or adding a little arch etc depending on personal choice, but keeping them more or less closer to the original eyebrow shape…)
I find that most people look better with their natural eyebrow shapes, and when people start trying to drastically change their eyebrow shapes, its just gonna look disasterous!
And just a comment for some people on this blog, thick eyebrows doesn’t mean unkempt eyebrows… Just because a person has thick eyebrows, doesn’t mean they don’t groom them or anything…
I don’t really agree with any part of your analysis of her eyebrows. I am also fairly picky about eyebrows, and I think that a good set of eyebrows make a huge difference, but the fact that you think they are too close together?!! Are you kidding me? I mean, sure, everything can be put to personal preference, but I think that eyebrows should naturally start at the very corner of the eye, which hers do! Anything farther apart, and it starts to look silly, and completely unnatural. She has nice long eyebrows, which look much better than stubby little ones. With eyebrows, I figure you just need to clean up and shape the eyebrows you originally have, not try and make them something they aren’t. Her eyebrows are at least natural, not removed and then drawn on with a pencil.
Why does evryone nitpick her?
she’s more beatiful than most of us will ever be. Everything about her is gorgeous and i would kill to look like her.
Her eyebrows are fine.
I’m a bloke and love kiera’s brows – in fact all of her is close to perfect!
It’s just a look – I love girls with brows like that! billie piper looks great with hers too!
I don’t like these silly over-processed squiggles – don’t you know blokes laugh at them?
Hey Christina,
I indeed am a makeup artist, esthetician, and a nail technician in Florida. I often see overplucked brows. To have thick brows like this is what every woman dreams of. The look is intentional. Fuller brows make you look younger and not as severe looking and soften features and a sharp face. I encourage women to let their eyebrows grow in a little especially in the middle, all day long! Just so they can have fierce eyebrows just like keira knightley. You might want to reconsider your opinion and take a glance in the mirror at your own eyebrows. Are they thin and overplucked? Not the look that young women of today’s generation are going for. They’re going for a greener, more natural look in everything. So, you are wrong and outdated! Just not keeping up with what’s currently the trend in eyebrows and beauty.
this is a site where we CAN comment on celebs beauty tips or faux pas…being a make up artist myself I rely exclusively on celebs as they are supposed to be groomed by he best.so indeed it is necessary to point out flaws and what not to do.
keira is indeed beautiful and fntastic eyebrows to die for.the colour of it is so wrong however when she goes blonde.that’s all.doesn’t change the fact that she s indeed close to perfection.but only close….her chest is as flat as an iron board.you don’t get to play with much when you’re a boyfriend.not much to hold on to.
I disagree with the author– so many beautiful women take eyebrow trimming to an extreme, and they don’t look nearly as good as they could with dark, natural eyebrows. Assuming the author is a straight woman, she cannot truly know what is ‘attractive’ to men, but only what some fashion/style people think are attractive.
Obviously you don’t know what you’re talking about, coming from an eyebrow specialist w/ no bias for this particular actress.
Her brows are obviously asymmetrical but that’s not a huge deal. Who’s aren’t?
That “rule” you’re using simply cannot work, it’s a generalized formulated for ppl without an artistic eye for shaping brows. If you WERE to utilize it you anyways the key is to align the brows by the TIP of the nose and not the nostril. If you look around you you’ll notice that simply CANNOT work. Not to mention the line you drew is not even parallel to her nose.
If anything her brows are already TOO FAR APART. If you were to pluck away another fourth of an inch like you said it would look even more ridiculous. What’s so beautiful about a huge space right smack between the brows? Not only is that inconsistent with nature but there would be no frame for the bridge of the nose. It’s simply ridiculous. You see this a lot in middle school girls and unfortunately with adults too, being that they are clueless in shaping brows.
I agree that a woman’s overall appearance depends highly on their eyebrows.
I’ve been struggling to find a good shape for my eyebrows for a while. I started messing with mine at a very young age. They are naturally very thick and dark. However, I have a fair complexion, and very soft, baby-like features so I have always been told that thick eyebrows don’t really work for me. Can you maybe email me any suggestions you have to help me create a good shape, like maybe when I go to get them threaded or waxed, without going too thick or thin?
thank you! I just admire your advice.
I think that her eye brows are what make her beautiful, they add to her very classic look.
You are mad.. seriously mental.
Keira’s eyebrows are incredible.
If you want to look like Vicky Pollard or someone off the Jeremy Kyle show then by all means keep plucking away..
The part that astounded me the most was when you said that they are too close together? I am imagining what your own brows must look like and laughing. Look at the models in the catwalk shows and you will see that the fuller eyebrow really does work. Okay I’m not talking caterpillars but you need a bit more than a drawn on line to look good!
i have brows like hers- i used to hate them when i was younger and my mum refused to let me pluck them and for that i am grateful, i get loads of compliments over them now!
Wow, bitch. Keira Knightley has some of the best eyebrows I have seen. It is a blessing to have dark, thick eyebrows, and if you actually think it would be desirable for her to bleach or pluck her eyebrows significantly, you are seriously out of it.
Are you kidding me!? As a guy, I absolutely LOVE those eyebrows, and thicker more natural looking eyebrows in general. I absolutely HATE over plucked or over waxed eyebrows.