To Celebrate Cara’s 22nd Birthday, Here Is A Brief History Of The Eyebrow

Kohl has long been used to circle the eyes – it’s both your modern day eyeliner and an age-old tradition, as seen on Indian children whose mothers apply kohl to ‘strengthen’ their newborn eyes. The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, however, used it on her brows in the C1st BC – and we don’t just mean filling in the odd hair, like we all do, but drawing the whole shebang on. It’s a pretty bold look, but then her look was pretty bold as a whole, if we’re honest.

A whey-faced woman, was Queen Elizabeth. The fashion was to have a very pale face (whitened with lead) with a high forehead (they actually plucked their hairline) and a bald brow. If only Geordie Shore beauty had been big then - and this brow was big now. So regal. The mind boggles.

Debatably the weirdest of all, it was trendy in the C18th to pluck your eyebrows very thin and then hand craft yourself a little pair made from mouse skin. Rampant Googling has yet to reveal whether you had to skin the mice and make your genuine fur brow coats yourself – or whether there was a designated mouse brow technician. And we thought our beauty regime was high maintenance.

A freaky fusion of Elizabeth's plucked brow and the regimentally high arched Scouse Brow, the brow of the 30s were super styalized and drawn on just with a thin eye pencil. The high arch made everyone look very surprised - which was great for mime and jazz. Obvs!

One of the most promiment artists of the mid C20th, Friday Kahlo is almost as famous for her black bristly unibrow as she is her artwork. Rendered in dozens of self-portraits – along with her equally proud tache – Frida's brow is cemented as iconic for all body hair activists.

Most commonly seen now as the upshot of a facelift (where the skin is lifted at the temples) the winged brow was a big thing in 1950s Hollywood up until, well, the 80s came along. Audrey Hepburn was queen of the winged brow.

Brooke Shields was basically the Cara before Cara. Angelic face much like a young Natalia Vodianova that captured hearts and Hollywood and thick furry eyebrows which were way sexier when left untouched by tweezer or wax.

Loved by Liverpudlian WAGS and perhaps a small hairy leitmotif for Baden Baden, the thin circles of a Scouse bra are kept aggressively perfect and dyed to dark perfection.

As seen at Chanel in 2012, using eyebrows as your jazziest accessory is a neat trick that the catwalk often relies upon. We're thinking we might try this for Halloween. So what if we get glitter in our eye and end up with pink eye.

As seen at Marc Jacobs February show in New York for SS14 – Kendall et al were given ‘bino brows – and also Miley Cyrus, foolin’ around as ever on Instagram.

Needs no further explanation. So legendary it has spawned £8,000 brow jobs and legions of body part Twitter accounts to whom Cara occasionally tweets.