Eyebrow threading takes a cozy seat within the mainstream’s couch-lined sense of familiarity when male U.S. soldiers overseas start demanding the procedure regularly. You’ve risen far from the mall-stationed sideshow you once were, eyebrow threading.
With Afghanistan-stationed Private First Class Richard Guillemette, his first experience with brow sculpting came as a surprise accident. He approached the Afghan barber shop on base with a haircut in mind but before her knew it, the barber took a straight-blade razor to his brows, shifting them into sassy arches. Only a month since the mishap, Pfc. Guillemetter’s returned for brow maintenance twice already. “They were getting a little bushy,” he defends to The Wall Street Journal.
And Pfc. Guillemette isn’t alone with a burning desire for carefully curious eyebrows. The trend keeps one camp barber at a base by the Pakistan border busy with an average of one or two U.S. soldiers a day in for his special-technique threading sessions.
Army regulations remain mum any rules or regulations specifically on eyebrow grooming. The Marine Corps., however, added a line to its grooming regulations five years ago stating that “excessive plucking or removal of eyebrows is not authorized, except for medical reasons.” But how much is too much, Marine Corps.? That remains a mystery. And until the rules spell out exactly how high of an arch will earn an armed serviceman a kick in the britches, we say pluck away, gentlemen. [via The Wall Street Journal]
Do you like it when guys groom their eyebrows? Would you ever recommend your boyfriend or a guy friend to an eyebrow threading salon?
guest
its just grooming. the same thing as cutting your hair.
guest
As long as the guys don’t have the unibrow thing going on, I don’t see anything wrong with a little grooming. I had one guy friend have his brows threaded. He claimed his brows were thick. It was definitely full, but I thought it looked fine. Anyway, after the threading, I admit his brows looked better.
guest
hey, our boys overseas deserve to have some of the comforts of home. like… eyebrow threading? yeah, whatever, they’re in the desert; you take your kicks where you can get them, i suppose.
with respect to civilian boys, i’m not picky. as long as there’s no suspicious unibrow activity, and as long as their brows aren’t more fierce than mine, it’s all good in the neighbourhood
guest
Why not? If I were in their shoes, I’d probably want a small luxury or two. Like the occasional eyebrow threading.
I don’t care if a guy threads his brows. I’m sure he’d have his reasons. Unibrow, mainly, I would think, but it’s whatever. I can’t groom my own eyebrows and think that men shouldn’t do so as well if they want.
guest
I don’t care all that much, as long as it’s not over-groomed. I think if I was a guy, I’d happily let my eyebrows be just as they are and not worry about grooming them.
As long as a guy doesn’t have like a massive unibrow or something then the grooming isn’t really necessary unless he just wanted to.
guest
I don’t feel this should be much of a story ya know? I mean it’s like getting a haircut… as long as they are tasteful about it I wouldn’t care. Soldiers overseas deserve the world’s finest and if they want nice eyebrows than good for them.
guest
I’m neutral to the whole thing with guys doing it, but I love getting it done on myself. I prefer that over waxing anyday. My mom and sister think I’m crazy only because they like waxing, for whatever reason.
guest
FYI: at least on women, this threading procedure can also remove other facial hair as well.