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"When was the last time you considered lubing up your brows?"

This is another little example of the tiny craziness of women's magazines. There's something about the writing and the inane specificity of this advice that just kills me.

The writers are sort of trying to make us laugh ? lubing up your brows ? but also, it seems, seriously trying to make us worry about something ? a "trouble zone" ? that we've never even thought about ? the skin under our eyebrows. Hey, think about it! Each eyebrow ? I refuse to use the word "brow" to refer to the hairy facial arch ? has its own mini scalp! It might get dandruff.

And then there is the problem of the inappropriate sexual innuendo: lubing up. I guess they get tired of telling us to moisturize. They brainstorm endlessly for synonyms. There's lubricate. So then let's make it cutesy and sexy. But it's absolutely unsexy. Imagine learning that your romantic partner dutifully adhered to a twice-a-day regimen of care for her eyebrow-scalps.

Full post as published by Althouse on May 24, 2009 (boomark / email).