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Keira Knightley's Fierce Eyebrows

And when I say fierce, it is not the good fierce! I think Keira is very beautiful, but what makeup artist in her right mind would leave those brows in that kind of shape? I know, I am a little fixated on eyebrows sometimes, but I really think they make a tremendous difference in your looks and they are a simple thing to groom properly, and most often, when I find someone beautiful to be odd looking, it is their overgrown brows (Jennifer Aniston). Here is Keira on the July InStyle cover:

Keira Knightley on the July 2006 InStyle

This example is not the best one, but it is the only good one I could find of her looking straight on at the camera with no hair covering half her face. Her brows need to have about 1/4 inch plucked off of the inner edge of each one:

Keira's eyebrows examined!

They are beautiful eyebrows, they really are. They are just too darned close together. Here is a much worse eyebrow picture from the Pirates of the Caribbean premiere (from InStyle.com):

Keira Knightly at the premeire of Pirates of the Caribbean

In this picture, not only are her brows just too close together, the color is heinous. Heinous. Granted, I am not generally an advocate of bleaching your eyebrows, as it just too easy to over lighten them and then they really look bad, but, in this instance, if she is going to lighten her hair that much, please do something about those jet black, too close together caterpillars brows.

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  1. Lexa

    The first thing I thought when I first saw a picture of Keira was “Wow! An actress with natural eyebrows!” I think they look great on her. I don’t understand the whole changing what you’ve got thing – I never pluck or shape mine as I think natural looks so much better. People have said mixed things about my own eyebrows, just like with Keira’s. Some say they wish they could have natural ones like mine, others say they look too full and like “caterpillars”. Mine are way darker than my natural hair colour – they are almost black, my hair is very light brown with natural blonde and copperish tints in it. The sun gives me salon effect highlights for free! So what do you think, would you criticise my eyebrows in the same way as Keira’s?

    (Only pic of me I have which shows my eyebrows)

  2. Katie

    Eyebrows, eyebrows, eyebrows! Clearly she’s that stunning that all you can find to pick apart are her eyebrows. I’m sure she has her imperfections – if that makes you feel better. Noone is perfect, no matter what people think/say. I don’t really have any clues about the technicalities in eyebrow styling, but you should go with what suits you, not everyone suits the ideal style. Anyway, thumbs up to Keira, she’s got my support all the way, 100% xx

  3. Shirin

    Finger width apart. Thats the proportionally correct measure at which eybrows should be separated. I don’t know WHY you would suggest she made them any further apart. It makes the pigly nose effect. Classic example: Hayden Panettiere and Amanda Bynes. Perhaps they’re copying oneanother?

  4. Rachael

    WTF does anyone realise that your having a conversation about eyebrows! To pick on someones looks is bad enough as it is……but to have a discussion ridaculing someone because of the shape of their eyebrows is just laughable! i think everyone on this page needs to take a look at themselves closely before they start picking apart this woman because of her eyebrows!!!!! theres heck of a lot more things going on the world!! if she wanted to die them purple and shave one of them off i really couldnt care less…..its her decission…..geez and you wander why so many people become obsessed with changing their body…..its because of people like you lot! xx

  5. Caroline Green

    i personally think that her eyebrows look hot.
    i mean really, try to imagine her with pencil thing christina aguilera eyebrows. lol. that just wouldnt work for her.
    shes got this whole natural thing going on, and it totaly rocks on her.

  6. Jennyy

    i like her eyebrows they really siut her face i dont think they are too big or too close together they help define her face if they were any smaller it would look stupid

  7. SaRa

    Obviously, I have no clue.. Keira is absolutely breathtaking to me, and I’ve always been jealous of her eyebrows…. They make her… I think she looks naturally stunning..

  8. tamei

    she iz great lookn her eybrows luk cool but a littl tuch up wont hurt

  9. natalie

    keira is so natural. she is sooo gorgeous. perfect. she should change absolutly nothing about her.

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  11. Theresa

    Honestly I’ve read a few of your eyebrow blogs and you have a thing about eyebrows being too close together. Well I have a thing about eyebrows being too far apart. Keira’s eyebrows are right where they should be so that her nose does not look too wide. Sometimes aligning the brows right with the corner of the eye is not good enough because of the way the eyes are set. She already has a good 1 1/4 inches between them. Any wider and she’d look quite bad.

  12. Angie

    What’s up with women and ultra thin eyebrows. Dark thick eyebrows that are cleaned up look much better than sparse thin eyebrows. Keira is gorgeous.

  13. Gabby

    ok first of all her eyebrows are fine ! second.. they shouldnt be the center of everybodys attention — so what if they’re not perfect and thirdd, i mean probably most people that are writing all of these neggative comments probably dont have perfect eyebrows either. just because shes a star doesnt mean that shes any different from you and me. who cares about the the colors && a little thickness
    shes a beautiful women and shes a hero in my eyes

  14. Jen

    she’s a beautiful woman. her eyebrows are fine.
    i think people should stop running people down and quit looking for the negative sides in people. i have alwaysed found imperfections make a stunning person anyway.

  15. Beth

    I’ve always been taught that eyebrows are ’sisters’- not twins. Most people will have differences in their brows. The trick is to minimize the differences and to focus on the strengths that the brows have. Overall, you want to bring balance to the face. I think Keira’s brows are perfect for her face. The only thing I’d like to see different is the uneveness balanced a bit more.

  16. Caroline

    I agree, In that picture her eyebrows really affect her beauty. When I first read that I thought you were over emphasizing it, but then I googled her and found a great photo of her with much better shaped eyebrows. It makes me realise just how much eyebrows affect your face….which is why I let a professional do mine. I don’t trust myself with shaping my eyebrows.

  17. P.

    Keira has natural beauty and is very lucky because of that. And natural is always fashionable, it’s not like she’s got unibrow or anything. She’s beautiful, she can act extremely well and by all means, if she wanted to be a model, she would have become one ages ago. Why mess with perfection?

  18. hmmm

    actually if you’ll notice, by looking at a lot of other photos of her….

    one of her eyebrows is actually slightly more arched than the other.

    unless she always raises one eyebrow

    which would make me tired after a while, personally.

    not that it really matters.

    everyone has eyebrows.

    if they were all the same, the world would be a plastic, ugly place.

  19. Jules

    Umm…… one eyebrow isn’t “arched more” than the other. She is RAISING an eyebrow. It is possible you know… to raise an eyebrows…

  20. Ana

    I think she’s adorable, eyebrows and all :-) Even thick looks good. The only thing she might do is thin them slightly, but even that’s not needed.

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