What’s happening now? Eyebrow feathers, that’s what. Delicate strokes. The beauty world is a constantly evolving one. Make-up artists and bloggers are always coming up with new, often bizarre ideas, and the latest technique is certainly odd. Adding to the already strange crazy of tattooing freckles to cheekbones and ‘mermaid hair’ is feathered brows. These days, it’s not about plucking them, raising them up, and neatening the edges. It’s about making them look like feathers. On Instagram, girls are going mad for the carefully constructed feathery swoops. The whole thing appears to have been started by Stella Sironen, who declared the idea “hot new trend”, possibly as a joke. But many of her 48,000 followers thought the whole thing a brilliant idea, and now the photo app is awash with weird brows. Apparently, all you’ve got to do to capture the look is to separate the hairs so there’s a parting down the middle, gently shift each side so there are partings, then hold in place with a bit of Vaseline. The eyebrow is an area of thick, delicate hairs above the eye that follows the shape of the lower margin of the brow ridges of some mammals. Their main function is hypothesised to prevent sweat, water, and other debris from falling down into the eye socket, but they are also important to human communication and facial expression. It is not uncommon for people to modify their eyebrows by means of hair addition, removal and make-up.