Her eyebrows looked well groomed, it's just the stuff in between that needs to go. She is the spitting image of her mother though.

I love you Cord

shes a beautiful girl. hair can be removed and im sure it will in due time. really who cares about it though? im more interested in whats going to happen when she starts to hear a few of her moms old tour stories.

wait coming from a girl that had the hairyest eyebrows on the planet ala lourdes'…my mom didnt allow me to pluck till i was 14 years old n i wish she would've sooner. i got made of to no end…it was really harsh at the time…kids are cruel and so are adults…so i say pluck thos eyebrows or u wont' get to kiss a boy untill ur 22, then ur probably go thru a super slutty phase hoepfully u wotn get knocked up n u mite evene nd up with ameanign less turd who you only think lvoes you. just pluck the eyebrows

i meant i got made fun of to no end

cherrycola, I'm sorry you got made fun of, but do you really think that the daughter of one of the richest women in the world cares what anyone else thinks or gives it any credence? Also, why bother fixing any part of your original comment if you're not going to fix the whole thing?

Excellent post, I must say. Thank you.

I had a unibrow and moustache when I was a girl (I guess I would still if I didn't pluck and wax)…It was not an issue with me until I was in Jr. High, some kid noticed and started picking on me persistently for YEARS! I would cry all the time about it; my mother didn't help much when she told me "he probably just has a crush on you". I was picked on in High School, by girls in algebra (which was already difficult enough); they made me skip the class because of their cruelty. Every day I would go in and sit down and they'd start by making fun of what I was wearing, and my hair. I would find gum in my hair or pen marks all over my clothes, I cried and cried. When I told the teacher that I couldn't sit near them she said "too bad, the seating chart is in alphabetical order" obviously I failed that class. So, what's my point…I don't know, being picked on really hurt me but now that I know more, I can say that the girls were insecure and that boy really did have a crush on me. I always wish I would have stood up for myself.
/sorry this isn’t my personal therapy session

"When is everyone going to realize that human oddity shouldn’t be mocked or pitied, but celebrated?"

Never, man. Not ever. It's a crap, crap, crap, crap, crap world.

Skaði - exactly. She's Madonna's daughter, she dresses kinda trendy/quirky? and she's probably going to be on People's best dressed list next year or something.

I had a unibrow until I started plucking/waxing/epilating/creme hair removing, and I got made fun of like crazy too. I always envied the girls who had eyebrows that didn't make them look like Groucho Marx.

puh-lease. wax it already. Jr. High school kids are mean. Obviously, they are doing some kind grooming for the kid - save some embarassment for her, and pluck the unibrow. Girls with brown/black hair know what i am talking about….waxing is a girls best friend.

Nice post, Cord. I think she's an absolute cutie. I'm sure her mom will let her pluck/wax/bleach when she's ready. As long as she's comfortable with it, then so be it!

I understand the argument, and she is very young to start worrying about things like eyebrow grooming, but, as Madonna's child, I'll bet she's going to the salon all the time to get her hair done, nails done, etc. Why not just get rid of the middle?

i personally don't see the men flocking to the hairy chicks.

Angela,
Gay guys do.

p.s. Hi!

She's gorgeous and natural. Which might be a crime in the US but not everywhere else in the world.

I much prefer to see a kid be a kid, eyebrows and all, that to see someone Lourdes' age all skanked up like a protitot. There is no need to rush a girl — or boy — into "marketability" for others.

although i agree what you're saying Cord… If i had brows and a 'stache when i was her age, looking back, i would be so angry my parents didn't help me out. She has more hair on her face than most boys do that age. Just wax the shit. It doesn't mean she will look 'skanked up.' it means she won't look like a neanderthal.

One of my buddies had a unibrow and she got teased constantly. All she had to do was pluck them and she was considered a "legitimate hottie." And she did. And now she gets more male attention. I don't blame her… men are mostly disgusted by "excessive" hair on females.
Frida is one of the most famous artists of all time, but she's not considered "sexy." Yes, women want praise for their work, but women also want to be considered good-looking.
Now… I love "unruly" eyebrows and not conforming for the sake of conforming… but is it really fair that I judge an adult for ridding of a trait that is considered a deal-breaker for so many through a little bit of threading?

PS
Love the post.

It's funny that this is posted right about an article asking what's wrong with Madonna's face.

Anyway, this poor girl is not going to be able to look back on a picture of herself at that age without cringing. I'm sure her mom tells her that she's beautiful like Frida Kahlo (madonna has a huge collection of her paintings). But still, it doesn't look good, no matter how you slice it.

It's just a matter of basic grooming. It's not that she isn't pretty, she's just unkempt. I'm not saying she should be covered in makeup, just a bit smoother. It's just more feminine.

If the kid didn't have a complex before, she will after reading this. If this article was meant to be non-hurtful, I'd hate to see what you'd write if you were trying to hurt the kid.

Alice, so right about the Madonna post directly below (of which I thought was a little unnecessary - her face looks tight, but not that weird…). I think Lourdes looks totally rad, but I know how I feel when I look back on my prepubescent school pictures. Ah well, it's character-building, right?

I know… we can make fun of the Jackson's children and Madonna's face, but then it's wrong to make fun of Lourdes' eyebrows? I say it's all wrong.

She's a beautiful girl. Gorgeous even but I just find it a little odd that she has a stylist and they havent told her she needs to mow that shit from time to time.

She's 11. She's not blind, she knows that there is extra hair on her face. She probably doesn't even shave her legs yet. Why should she have to bother with waxing/plucking? She's Madonna's daughter. She spends more on one outfit than I do on clothes for a year. Do you really think that if she wanted to pluck her mom would say no? Maybe she's just too busy being a kid and doesn't care about what an adult is supposed to do. We sit here bitching about how Miley Cyrus needs to act her age, and we're picking apart an 11 year old who does. What is it gonna be cruel world? What is it gonna be?

SCREW THAT! GET THAT GIRL WAXED PRONTO!

Thank you, kerryberry.
I think Lourdes does not have ANY aesthetic flaws. She should concentrate on building character in her youth. Although I wouldn't hold it against her if she plucks when she's older, I think she'll look better is she doesn't.

Kerryberry - right on.
Last post I mentioned my neighbor who had the audacity to call my 5 year old daughter's eyebrows unruly and in need of a plucking. She plucks (or wax perhaps) her 5 and 8 year olds eyebrows, but she also gives them spray tans, highlights in their hair and fake nails. Though she is doing these things for pagents (which I think is horrible - no offense to anyone who does these for their children or did themselves) I think not letting kids be kids and making them think they are not good just the way they are, is opening them up to pressures and self confidence problems, if not more. Lourdes seems to be pretty confident, and if she can feel that way now at 11, when girls are starting to get MEAN, she will probably end up okay - regardless of what her eyebrows look like.
Sorry for the rambling - this eyebrow issue is a touchy subject for me after I heard my neighbor comment on my daughter's eyebrows (did I mention she called my daughter thick??)
Excuse me while I go TP the neighbors.

I agree that she is a beautiful girl. I have heard that Madonna is extra strict with her and does not let her shave her legs even. I think the natural eyebrow look is flattering on some people, especially Lourdes. With that said, a little cleaning up around the edges would probably do wonders for the girls self-esteem. And no girl needs a mustache ever. Never ever, let the poor girl get that removed. I seriously doubt that Lourdes is rocking that as a statement of some sort.

I in no way support the grooming of eyebrows in children under the age of ten.

i'm sorry, but the eyebrows are ugly. its as if she were obese. other than the health issue, madonna wouldnt want her daughter to get made fun of for being fat right?

i say pluck it.

You know, Obama voted FOR complete hair removal even though he is NOW talking about phased withdrawl of follicles. Flip flopper.

So, so happy you're back, Lisa.

a bit of grooming would not hurt, however she is just 11 and people should shut the hell up.

Too funny Lisa!

Dear Cord,
If only there was even one kid like you during my early education-I may have not been such a lonely hairy girl with no friends because she looked too ethnic for the homogeny of my former home town. Thank goodness you write shizz like this every now and then, no one else has the balls to.
Love, F xoxo

I just reread Haley's comment and realized she compared obesity to unplucked eyebrows. HUH??
By the way if Lourdes was obese - although I do not imagine a child of Madonna being obese - even then she should still be teaching her daughter to be comfortable with herself despite her weight problem, and encourage her to lose weight for her own health and well being. Not because everyone else is doing it. I would hope Madonna was encouraging her daughter to lose weight not because of people making fun of her daughter, but for health reasons. Therefore this analogy doesn't make sense because unruly eyebrows don't cause diabetes, high blood pressure, or premature death. Not even close.

msim-good point, only in America are children ostricized this specific way.

Personally, I look at pictures of myself when I was that age and cringe (fashion in the late 80's/early 90's was cruel) but then am immediately drawn to/jealous of my old luxurious silky eyebrows that I plucked into oblivion during my teen years in an attempt to look like everyone else, which gave me the look of a permanently surprised special education student.

Stay furry, teeny Madonna.

I just choked on my lunch killorn. Were you a overplucker too? I remember just getting started and not knowing when to stop. I think I hate those pictures more than the ones pre-plucking.

I owe my legacy of teen eyebrow ugliness to a dirty Wet'N'Wild compact.

I like the idea of kids being allowed to be kids. No one should be critiquing that girl's grooming habits. It's up to her mother to decide when it is appropriate to enlighten her to the irritating, pain-in-the-ass ritual that is eyebrow maintenance.

However, if Madonna's desire to maintain her daughter's innocence (or keep her looking like Frida - weird) is causing PEER issues, then take the girl to the salon. My mom didn't teach me about shaving my legs until far too late. I didn't learn any lessons about inner fortitude from the middle school locker room jeering. I just stole Mom's razor and taught myself… and I still have scars!

If we want to give a little kid shit, let's just focus on her white Ray Bans and call it a day.

As a very dark haired girl, I too feel for Lourdes. I had an unibrow by that age and actually started plucking it when I was turning 11 and going into sixth grade. No one had ever made a comment to me, but I live in the sticks and it was the mid-80s. People here were busy rocking the mullet, not worrying about the brows.

I, on the other hand, was mortified that my eyebrows looked like a caterpillar crawling across my face. I remember the first pluck - freezing the brow with ice and the pain, god the pain. I am such a wuss. You'd think 20 years later those things wouldn't grow, but damned if I still don't have to pluck there.

I guess, while I think the brows need to go for Lourdes, that she needs to decide when she wants them gone.

The post about Madonna is reffereing to *perhaps* unnatural procedures that she may have had with regards to her appearance. She is also an adult who for the duration of her career has invited media scrutiny, it's kinda of her sctick. So no harm, no foul.
This post is in celebration of remaining natural with regards to appearance, especially when that appearance belongs to a child. Lourdes is a child and has not invited people to comment on her appearance through her any actions of her own, she just happens to be the only duaghter of one of the most famous (and fame-hungry) women in this world.

I don't think Mollygood is being hypocritcal when the posts are ultimatley in support of the same thing. Natural beauty rocks, look how odd you can look if you care so much about your physical self that you pay to have it tampered with.

I do think it's sad that a lot of people think if peers put pressure on you because you appear different that you should accept that and change your appearance accodingly. Bullying isn't fun but the opinons of those that will criticise you for being different (in any way) are the least important opinions in the world. No matter that they are the loudest or the most persistent.

I'd teach my children to be comfortable with who they are first and make all decisions form that standpoint.

why is this even a topic??? lourdes is an arrogant little girl and is going to be grow up to be an arrogant and rude woman just like her mother…. she comes out the house looking like she wished she was born in the 70's with ugly ass clothes that people are calling fashion these days and a wonder woman head band or whatever the hell that shit is she wears around her forehead…. if she puts that much attention into her ugly clothes, i'm sure she could do the same for her ugly hairy ass face…. or is madonna too cheap to dig in her $600 million for a mere $10 wax job? screw this whole conversations and talk about something else…. like what a whore and bitch miley cyrus is…. am i the only one that hate that ugly buck-teeth cock sucking bitch????? and shut the fuck up if you're trying to say she's 15… that little whore ain't been 15 yrs old in 8 years…. she's a hoe and she's mad at that other girl for being with that other dude she was dating… so fucking HS

lola, that is the first sensible thing anyone has written since the old testament.

I'm just confused by her eyebrows. The majority of her brows look very well groomed. It's only at the very end (or beginning, however you look at it) that they look like they broke out of a bank and are running away.

"so fucking HS…"

…not unlike your post on the topic.

And I'm with Killorn - total teenage overplucker here.

Sigh.

That sure is the pot calling the kettle black. Right beneath this post is a post by Whitney titled "What happened to Madonna's face?", that mocks how she looks. Your little staff obviously doesn't have the same standards. So Whitney can bully and make fun of celebrities, but cord has to defend them? hmmmm something in the milk ain't clean.

Fortunately, we can thank Louis Pasteur and his amazing eponymous milk-cleansing processes, eh?

Wait, pasteurizing gets rid of pee? Someone pasturize the public pools, stat! Or did the cow get into an onion patch?

It's like what Freda Kahlo told me one time:

Once you start that plucking/waxing/shaving business, you have to keep doing it. Then it just grows back thicker. And then you don't have time to focus on the important things in your life. She was pretty fierce.

I agree that strength in the face of adversity is one of the qualities that allows a person to take a stand create change. I also agree that Lourdes is beautiful just as she is, but the fact remains that she's at a point where she's developing her self-concept. Most kids her age haven't developed the kind of internal strength necessary to fend off attacks from other kids. I hope she has, but she'd be fairly extraordinary. At this point in a kids life, generally the most important reassurance they get is that they fit in.

to take a stand _and_ create change

and "kid's"

"Stay furry, teeny Madonna."

Killorn, that's just hysterical.

I agree she should be allowed to pluck or not pluck in peace. But do we really need to say she looks "weird"? "Don't you give in to the haters, sweetie, it's perfectly okay to look weird" is a backhanded compliment if I've ever heard one.