Why Does Pamela Anderson Have No Eyebrows?

As a retrospective of 90s beauty trends, this story shows how Pamela Anderson’s eyebrows reached the height of ultra-thin, high-arched, pencil-only defined epiculiptics throughout the height of her fame. Despite numerous reports of depilatory hair removal on her eyebrows, Pamela has maintained that she never, ever waxed or had them tattooed with permanent makeup, let alone had them micro-bladed.

Sadly, as dermatologists have previously detailed, hairs removed via tweezing suffer significant damage to the hair follicle and do not grow back – no matter how hard you wish them to. As one person previously noted of the iconic celebrity: “Pamela Anderson has a lot to answer for. I waxed mine so thin they never grew back” – and the suffering appears to be widespread.

Since embracing her makeup-free, skin-care-focused lifestyle post-2019, the actress has opted for no eye makeup whatsoever – often letting her natural face do the talking instead of relying on heavy-duty goods to accentuate certain facial features. For years, her beautifully-bladed and completely-specific brows were a major part of her pout-perfecting looks; however, the hair never did grow back from years of tweezing and for many reasons, including purely biological, the actress has long-since ceased attempting to recreate her past gorgeous gpons using more modern methods. For Anderson, smooth skin and the use of rose-hip oil are now at the very peak of her beauty priorities – with her brows simply following the natural progression of life as she lets her growing hair – and beautifully pronounced lines – be.

Never fear, Pamela Anderson is not crying over her lost eyebrows. Rather, she’s embracing her bare-faced glow. For decades, the Baywatch bombshell sported very thin, very arched eyebrows – and they were indeed a big part of her look. But those eyebrows required a lot of maintenance, and ultimately, those hair follicles were just begging to be plucked. And pluck and pluck they were – some areas of her face just never grew back. Today, Anderson’s brows are almost invisible, with just a few random hairs here and there to remind you of what once was. (No heavy makeup needed for the look – and no drawing on of individual brows for daily wear.) In the past, she’s said that on the rare occasion she does fill in her brows, it’s with a pencil and in a very subtle, don’t-want-to-look-like-I’ve-done-anything-with-my-brows kind of way. (And as for other sorts of permanent or semi-permanent brow treatments? No, thanks. Anderson says she’s never waxed, tattooed or used a brow-lift by way of microneedling for permanent brow restoration – she lets her sparse brows be as nature intended).

She’s also been doing a bunch of talks in support of her recent documentary and book, and she looks almost completely unmade, with her natural gray hair pulled back, and softly defined brows. The contrast between how she looks now and how she looked in the ‘90s is really profound. For decades, she was a sort of icon, a sort of symbol. And what she’s doing now is so strange and beautiful – she’s reclaiming herself as a human being with agency over how she looks. And her brows are just one part of that. Really, the story of her brows is their return.