Kicking things off in style for New York Fashion Week 2022 was the opening act of Harlem’s Fashion Row - a truly special display of fashion celebrating its 15th year into Fashion Show and Style Awards. Based around the concept of calling attention to Black creatives and designers, the show took on the theme of multiculturalism and diversity through an ultra-futuristic showcase. 

Designer Johnathan Hayden’s models flaunting rhinestone covered eyebrows and hair was easily our favourite moment of the night. We already know the 2020s have been a decade obsessed with adding jewellery to their brows, and HFR’s models really showed us why. Would you just look at that sweet, full-of-oomph glam?

Making her first fashion week appearance in nearly 10 years was none other than the icon, Janet Jackson herself. We mean it when we say the queen of pop had all eyes on her throughout - in the front row and after party alike. From being clad in an all-black blazer set to glowing in a full sparkle jumpsuit to adorning a long fluffy tulle skirt, Jackson’s New York Fashion Week 2022 looks were majestic to say the least and actually did justice to her grandeur. 

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Complementing Jackson’s steal-the-show worthy fashion were her sculpted brows, created by makeup artist Preston Meneses, giving us all the feels of a drag-inspired eyebrow look. One thing we learned from Janet Jackson’s brows this NYFW was that sharply elevated arches can go a long way in lifting your look, especially if you want to awaken your boss bitch spirit.

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Oh and did we forget to mention, Janet Jackson took home the ICON of the year award during the Harlem’s Fashion Row after party on the 6th of September. Kudos, queen.

No eyebrow is the new eyebrow in Doja Cat’s world, we’ve known that for sometime now. In her usual eccentric style, Doja basked in the limelight of New York Fashion Week 2022 with the most off-centre fashion and beauty looks. Her brows were much the same, ranging from a completely nude brow bone to a pencil thin drawn-on line decorated with hearts, bright blue colour and face paint.

Doja Cat’s got the imagination like no other, we’ll give her that.

The fashion runway would have been incomplete without a bleached brow moment, the latest celebrity obsession as we come to know it. Sporting the bleached brow in New York Fashion Week 2022 was none other than Bella Hadid herself, who graced the catwalk for both Fendi, in the 25th anniversary of its iconic baguette bag, and Proenza Schouler’s Spring Summer 2023 collection. The ultra-lightened (but not completely invisible) brows blended in seamlessly to her overall minimalistic-no-makeup-makeup aesthetic giving freshest of the fresh feels.

It’s already known that Bella Hadid is a trendsetter in her own right, so we can only expect the brow look to extend past the runway to beauty lovers who are sure to follow in her footsteps.

It’s safe to say that Julia Fox basically ruled over 2022’s New York Fashion Week all the way through, with her unorthodox, exaggerated style - as per usual. Starting off with an all-black fishnet couture gown at the Vogue afterparty, the actress was all about gothic and skin-showing fashion from the get-go (what’s new, right?). At LaQuan Smith’s show, Fox arrived with yet another black ensemble, coupled with her classic black chunky eyeliner look and a totally exposed midriff. And to push boundaries to the max in a truly Julia Fox style, she went for a Joanna Prażmo waxy naked dress, complete with a cellophane wrapped heels and purse pair that she actually put together herself an hour before the event.

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From the neck up, Julia Fox’s New York Fashion Week 2022 makeup was of course heavy around the eyes. While her brow look of choice was majorly the bold bleached eyebrow which she is no stranger to, we quite loved the perfectly-groomed, unarched, and sharp angled brow where we could actually see her hairs. Something like Kendall Jenner’s straight eyebrows, but more 45 degrees and less 180. A great way to neutralise that dramatic liner, don’t you think?

In Peter Do’s Ready to Wear SS23 show, brows were literally shining above all else. Glitter, an accessory usually reserved for the eyelids and cheeks, was flaunted in bright metallic colours on models’ eyebrows, directly contrasting the otherwise basic, low-key vibe of the collection. Glittered eyebrows is the peak of avant-garde brow fashion in 2022, until of course something new comes our way. We’re obsessed.