Mum once bullied for brows now embraces natural look

A woman who was bullied at school because of her bushy eyebrows says she now embraces her natural look and is more confident than ever.

Joselyn Jones, from Georgia, USA, was relentlessly teased in the playground by kids who would call her ‘wolf’ and howl at her.

The 23-year-old grew up hating her monobrow – proper name synophrys – and begged her mother Pamela Jones, to allow her to wax it.

When she was ten, her dad finally relented and allowed her to pluck her brows, which became a painstaking daily routine due to their thickness.

“He got his beard clippers and separated my eyebrows right down the middle,” she said.
“Finally people stopped talking about me.

“It was emotional. I finally felt like I fit in with everyone else.”

For twelve years, Joselyn groomed her brows every morning and spent $15 weekly to have them professionally shaped.

When Joselyn, a hairdresser, welcomed her son Jeremiah, now five, her grooming routine began to stretch her tight finances, and she worried about the impression she was imprinting on her young son.

“I was putting myself through hair school and I was meeting all kinds of different women,” she said.

“One day a little girl came in and she had eyebrows just like mine that joined in the middle and she hated them.

“I told her they were beautiful and that a lot of people have to draw them in or tattoo their eyebrows, but she had them naturally.

“She smiled when I said that and I felt a little hypocritical.”

In November 2017, she set herself a one-month challenge to stop grooming her brows and relaxing her hair, which was costing $94 every six weeks.

So after years of painful plucking, Joselyn decided to grow out brows and embrace her natural beauty.

“At first I was mortified when people would look at me. I felt like I was right back in school with those bullies,” she said.

“But I soon realised if I didn’t love myself, nobody else would love me either.

“It’s interesting because ever since I’ve grown my eyebrows men are more interested in me,” Joselyn said.

“I think men are so used to seeing women in a certain way, that to see someone looking different is attractive.”

The mum said her confidence was elevated by the challenge and claims that embracing her unibrow has completely changed her outlook on life.

“Now I love myself and my look too, which I think makes a huge difference,” she said.

Joeslyn’s story comes just days after UK woman, Sophia Hadjipanteli, reveals she get death threats because of her eyebrows.

“I definitely get a lot of negative reactions, I’m not going to sit here and say a lot of them are positive because that’s obviously not the case. Most are negative.”

But despite some negativity about embracing her natural look, the model has also attracted legions of fans for promoting body positivity.

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