Apparently the Egyptians used to do this.

The mourning period is over after your eyebrows grow back

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    4 months ago

    Oh interesting. Were you worried about bleaching your brows so close to your eyes?

    Yes a month doesn’t seem very long.

    I can’t find any more specific info on the mourning itself.

    Except now I see from the same source that when their dog died, egyptians shaved off all the hair on their body. Huh.

    Herodotus too, so grain of salt:

    “And in whatever houses a cat has died by a natural death, all those who dwell in this house shave their eyebrows only, but those in whose houses a dog has died shave their whole body and also their head.”