Kerry Parnell: Kim Kardashian’s latest look is raising eyebrows
Never mind the star posing with her backside hanging out of the top of her retro denim, it’s something else that caught Kerry Parnell’s attention in her latest break the internet magazine cover picture;
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Just when you thought there was nothing left for Kim Kardashian to do to shock us, she pulls it off again.
Proving the 41-year-old beauty and fashion guru really values her assets, this week Kim hit the headlines and the bottom line simultaneously with her controversial cover of Interview magazine.
The cover image shows Kim sporting a jock strap and dropping her stone-washed jeans to flash her bare bum, as she gazes seductively over her shoulder at the camera.
Of course, this isn’t Kim’s first rodeo when it comes to performing giant moonies and breaking the internet. But I don’t mind admitting, this image left me a little queasy.
I just wasn’t prepared to see them in all their glory – out and proud, for all the world to spot.
Her bleached eyebrows, that is.
Yes, never mind the star posing with her bum plopping out of the top of her retro denim, we’ve been there and seen that, Kim.
No, it was the sight of her bleached-blonde eyebrows matching her blonde hair that really crossed the line of decorum for me. There’s just no need for that kind of style crime.
Dyed-white eyebrows are about as delectable as white chocolate – literally a pale imitation of the real thing, which always leaves you unsatisfied.
I’m not sure what she was going for – the full Targaryen, perhaps? In that case, her beautician miss-fired her brow and arrow, because even the snow-haired, icy-heart Dragon-riding clan themselves retained darker eyebrows in House of the Dragon. Or maybe it was meant to match the American Dream-theme of Interview magazine, in a kind of American eagle way …
Of course, those who inhabit the high-brow world of fashion will be well aware bleached brows are a “thing” and stars have been experimenting with the look for some time.
Some more successfully than others. Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams has done it, Katy Perry did it at the Met Gala, as did Kim, previously.
She posted on Instagram: “My bleached brows, I’m into it.” Thank you, Kim. Lady Gaga rocked the look at a Saint Laurent fashion show as did Kate Moss’s daughter, Lila, when she walked in Richard Quinn’s show and Kendall Jenner on the Marc Jacobs runway. Adele, meanwhile, does the opposite and dyes her pale brows darker, because if she doesn’t, she says, “I look like Voldemort”.
Speaking on NikkieTutorials on YouTube, the singer said: “There’s a photo of me leaving a Lady Gaga gig in London, I look crazy. I look like an Elfling.”
My advice is unless your hair and skin tone are naturally light and your name is Tilda Swinton, then it’s probably best to avoid drastic dye-jobs on your brows, because you’re unlikely to pull the look off, but extremely likely to pull your brows off, as anyone who is old enough to have survived The Great Eyebrow Plucking Debacle of the ’90s can attest to. One of my friends over-plucked her brows so severely circa 1997, she replaced them with mini Post-It Notes. It’s not a tip I would recommend.
As to Kim’s bum? To be honest, it hardly raised an eyebrow.
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