Yes, another one of those polls

[sabotabby]

[Poll #831370]

I bring this up because there are posters all over the streetcars lately for some show called Ugly Betty. Now, I have no idea what this show is about, but the posters feature a woman who is Hollywood Ugly.* Among her ugly features are prosthetic eyebrows. I know they're prosthetic, as I read it in a magazine somewhere, but they actually look pretty normal to me. This is when I noticed that it was the first time in ages I'd seen a woman in an ad who didn't have plucked or waxed eyebrows.

I looked around on the streetcar, and practically every woman my age had done something to her eyebrows. It was bizarre. I've never really had the temptation to take hot wax or tweezers to my face, and no one's ever suggested I do so (and really, my eyebrows are pretty faint, so it'd look bizarre). Is this a new mandatory thing, like shaved legs and waxed pubes? When did this happen? I'm all for doing über-femme, but it sounds painful.

Discuss.

* Basically, she has unattractive glasses, hair styled in a very plain way, natural-looking eyebrows, and braces. She's otherwise attractive enough. I don't know the plot of the show, but I gather at some point they will fix her hair, wax her eyebrows, remove the braces, and take off her glasses. And then she will be hot. I hate this particular plot line in movies and TV shows, as they never take into account the complicated process of acquiring contact lenses and learning to wear them, and I'm forced to conclude that the newly glasses-less girls are actually stumbling around half-blind. We sexbots do not not require vision to fulfill our womanly duties as baby-incubators, after all.

Comments

[ralu-1982.livejournal.com]

This Ugly Betty show is actually a remake after a South American telenovella called Yo soy Betty, la fea. Quite the hit, I may add, enhanced, of course, by the utter stupidity of the plot and the neurotic ideas behind it. She became like a standard icon for ugliness...even after she cleaned up her image and became *hot*.
Btw, she was still wearing those damn eyeglasses even after becoming the beauty queen in the Colombian version. I wonder what happens in the US version...