Big eyebrows and Fur coats

This would be the image of Liverpool city centre during my attempts at Christmas shopping last week.

Liverpool has previously been labelled a city with the best dressed women.
However, what I have found, after my 20 years of experience in the city, is that, YES, scousers do love fashion and love taking care of their appearance. But, unfortunately, this is always taken to the extreme.

Take any recent fashion 'trend' and there is no doubt, that it integrated and flew off the rails in Liverpool.

Back to the title of this blog ; Big eyebrows and fur coats...

Big eyebrows....
Gone are the days of the 'skinny/barely existent' eyebrows of the nineties and early naughties, because 2010 has been all about the shaped dark EYEBROWS.
Again, and unfortunately, this has been taken to the extremity in Liverpool.
The definition of an eyebrow, or rather its purpose, is to shape the face and enhance the beauty of the eye (ok this is beautician speak, as I know well that scientifically they catch 'dust' and protect the eyes)
I do admit, as a natural blonde sporting brunette locks, i need to use an eyebrow pencil as part of my makeup routine. But, at least my eyebrow pencil matches my skin tone and hair colour.
This is something that has not yet been mastered by a majority of scouse girls, particulary the bleach blondes....who seem to love the block black eyebrow look....eek!

And Fur.... always a controversial topic, but finding good/ very real looking faux fur is relatively easy nowadays, no need for the 'painted' look...
But PLEASE, if you are going to buy fur, be it real or faux..... at least buy one that looks NICE, not this commonly loved tatty/'needs a good brush through it' rank looking fur!


Fashion faux pas, they are inevitable, its all about fashion experimentation. But if you are just following a crowd fashion faux pas....shame on you!