The Eyebrow Thing

Have you noticed the "eyebrow thing"? I mean the way some people (mostly young males, for some reason) combine a frown with wrinkling their brow in order to arch their eyebrows into a kind of inverted V? I ask myself what exactly is this supposed to convey? Bewilderment? Sadness? There doesn't seem to be a specific time or place when this expression is considered appropriate. I was walking by a Dairy Queen the other day, and a young man reading a book in the window suddenly looked up at me with that expression on his face. Puzzled by something he had read? Practising? I'll never know. I do know this, though: Do it often enough for long enough and you'll be getting Botox injections for those wrinkles and frown lines.

Which reminds me: A friend of mine once met a famous cosmetics maven who didn't have a visible line on her face. "I know her secret", she said to me afterwards, "she keeps her face a mask and shows no expression at all."

Well, either that was her secret or she had had so much cosmetic surgery her face had become a mask.