Julianne Moore jokes that she 'destroyed' her eyebrows as a teen: 'Now they won't grow back'
Julianne Moore jokes that she 'pretty much destroyed' her eyebrows as a teen: 'Now they won't grow back'
Actress Julianne Moore looked back at how years of rocking pencil-thin eyebrows, a prevalent trend in the Nineties, still haunts her during an episode of Vogue's Beauty Secrets video series.
While recounting her daily skincare routine, the Oscar-winning actress, 62, joked about the painstaking 'feat' of having to draw over her over-plucked eyebrows every day.
'I pretty much destroyed my eyebrows when I was a teenager and then I let them grow in and then I destroyed them again and now they won't grow back,' she told the monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine's more than 12.5 million YouTube subscribers.
Despite accepting that her eyebrows may never return to their pre-tweezed status, the mother-of-two has become a pro at penciling them on herself.
'A lot of people think that red heads have red eyebrows, but they very rarely do,' the Still Alice star said as she explained how she draws on her brows.
She continued: 'I take the pencil and I start right in the middle I brow underneath and I fill it in so that it looks straighter. You rest your pinky on your nose so that you give yourself a little bit of balance with it and it takes forever.'
'So there we go. Now I have eyebrows,' she mused.
In 2021, the Emmy winner told the Sunday Times that she 'destroyed' her eyebrows by plucking and bleaching them until they were 'really completely gone' in a bid to fit in.
Over the years, she has been vigilant in trying to keep her daughter, Liv, 20, from repeating her own mistakes.
She told the outlet that she always tells her daughter not to 'touch' her eyebrows and to not 'let anybody else touch them.'
Earlier in her latest video, Moore admitted her 'skincare routine has gotten more and more complicated' as she's gotten 'older.'
'I've always been careful about washing my skin and wearing sunscreen,' the Maps to the Stars alum stated.
As a kid, the wife of director, Bart Freundlich, recalled how her 'fair-skinned' mother 'was concerned about us getting sunburned all the time.'
'She wouldn't even let us go outside at the beach until after 3:00 and we could only stay for a little while and then as soon as there were effective sunscreens we used those all the time,' Moore remembered.
The beauty added that she doesn't 'like a lot of coverage' and loves showing her freckles.
