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My Fashion Week Diary: The Recap

Follow a TotalBeauty.com editor at New York Fashion Week to get an exclusive glimpse of the hottest new trends -- and the magic (and mayhem) backstage

by Dawn Davis | COMMENT

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Day 5: Embracing Natural Brows For the past few years, I've been dabbing my eyebrows with Latisse and dousing them with castor oil in an effort to get them to grow. While they're not as '90s-skinny as they once were, they're nowhere near Cara Delevingne-thickness, either. So I continue to pencil, powder and gel them daily.

Based on what I've seen backstage, however, it might be time to give my brow pencil a rest. Brows are still big, but now, it's more about grooming what you've got than painstakingly filling them in with pencil. "The brows are clean and brushed-through," said Avon celebrity makeup artist Jamie Greenberg backstage at Dennis Basso. "The focus is on the eye." At Theory, makeup artists used Maybelline Great Lash Mascara in Clear to brush the brows up. And at Karen Walker, Anastasia Clear Brow Gel was the only product on models' arches. And that was just yesterday -- basic brows are a trend I've been seeing all week.

Eyebrows are being deemphasized, but I don't think it's a sign of scrawny brows to come -- and I'm still on Team Thick Brows. Instead, I think it's a reflection of the pared-down makeup looks that are going to be huge for spring. After all, if you spend only five minutes on your makeup, you don't want to dedicate three of those minutes to meticulously penciling in your eyebrows. Time to order more castor oil.

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