Haters say my unibrow makes me look like a caveman — but I love it
She won’t be browbeaten by beauty trolls.
Model Kenah Jonel has sported a unibrow for most of her life, and claims she’s as confident as ever when she rocks it.
The 21-year-old from Austin, Texas, began plucking her bushy brow when she was just 10; by the time she turned 16, however, she was tired of the tweezing routine.
Jonel has said she’s often complimented on her “perfect” and “incredible” brows, with many calling them her “best feature.”
“Naturally, most people just tended to compliment my eyebrows over anything else because they’re a really bold feature,” the Texan told Kennedy News Service.
She added, “It wasn’t initially supposed to be a statement, or I wasn’t specifically thinking ‘I want a unibrow,’ it was more that I liked my eyebrows how they were and wanted to leave them that way.”
Despite her self-assurance, Jonel frequently sees hateful comments on TikTok -— especially from men — about her furry furrow.
Many have branded her as a “monkey” or “caveman,” and compared her unibrow to a “caterpillar.” But Jonel doesn’t care for the haters. “Why would I change my life in order to make them happy?” she asked.
But she’s also received “uplifting” messages from others, in praise of being true to herself.
“I also tell myself, too, if I wouldn’t take their [trolls’] advice in real life, why would I let them tell me what to do on the internet?” the social media influencer wondered.
Jonel continued, “I’ve also had a lot of people say really horrible things, to the point where I’ve sometimes wondered how deeply that hatred is rooted in terms of the projection in correlation to my unibrow.”
She added, “I think that giving people the power to decide how I want to look, dress and present myself in day-to-day life is not going to give me results that make me happy.”
Jonel hopes her confidence will inspire others.
“They make me feel like I’m doing something right — in terms of me being myself is encouraging other people to be themselves,” she said. “And I think that at the end of the day, that’s all you really can do and that’s the point.”
As for the trolls, she hopes that they will attempt some self-reflection and “maybe ask themselves why it makes themselves feel better to be an anonymous person bring other people down on the internet.”
“But true happiness and self-love comes from being somebody regardless of who everybody expects you to be,” the bold beauty noted. “There’s nothing that I can do or say to make them understand that, so I think that, for me, the only response that I can really have is to continue being myself and that’s it.”
“At the end of the day, you should be somebody that you’re proud of, happy with and that you think is beautiful,” Jonel declared, adding, “and not necessarily beautiful in a way that’s reflective of societal beauty standards or the way that other people perceive you.”