Skinny brows may be making a comeback in 2022 (please no), but Brooke Shields’ daughters will not be participating.
Before Cara Delevingne’s name became synonymous with beautiful untamed brows, Shields was the reigning queen of full, bushy brows throughout the ‘80s. This legacy has led to a strict beauty rule for Shields’s teenage daughters, 18-year-old Rowan and 16-year-old Grier Henchy. “I won’t let them touch their brows, at all. Nothing. Don’t follow a trend, don’t do anything until you’re out of my house,” she told People in a new interview. “Then if you do something you’re on your own and you’ll be sorry!”
Aside from passing down unmatched beauty wisdom—seriously, you will regret plucking your brows to oblivion—Shields has an entire closet of historic fashion pieces and handbags archived for her daughters.
“They wear my clothes a lot. So whenever they wear anything of mine, it’s validation to me,” Shields said while attending the launch of Fashionphile‘s latest New York City Authentication Center & Showroom. “So what [Rowan] gravitates towards [are] the very functional bags of mine and belts and things like that. [Grier] gravitates towards zero function, all fashion.”
That doesn’t mean the girls don’t have their own personal styles. “It has to be their idea because if I try to really impose upon them the things—they’ll reject me so quickly,” she said. Rowan, who was also at the event, chimed in, “We won’t want to wear it.”
In fact, inspiration goes both ways. “There is a certain…youthful sense that they have helped me infuse in bits, not to be younger, but to enjoy a freshness of it,” Shields told People. “For years and years and years, I dressed like an Upper East Side person… because I was hosting the Today Show, and I was doing all these events and that was the protocol, that was the uniform. And I look in my closet and I think, ‘That’s really not me’.”
