'Barbed wire brows' is the latest polarizing, spiky eyebrow trend to hit the internet

Make it stop.
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Samantha Scelzo
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Remember when people were happy with their eyebrows and just kept them the way nature intended? Yeah, neither do we.

We just barely recovered from being introduced to "feather brows", and were hoping for some peace and normalcy in the beauty world while we healed. But, alas, beauty does not sleep and the Instagram community lets nothing slip through the cracks.

Therefore, we have the pleasure (ahem) of bringing you... "barbed wire brows."

See it? See the barbed wire?

We have make-up artist Athena Paginton to thank for this trend, as she pioneered the look that has made ground on Instagram pages everywhere.

According to MTV, to achieve the spiky, dangerous brow, you can use soap or a gel-based product to to manipulate patches of hair to point up or down in the style of barbed wire.

Why would anyone do this to their eyebrows? Your guess is as good as ours. Probably because they...can?

It's obvious people are growing tired of unusual brow trends because Twitter is having NONE of it.

We just can't keep up. We're longing for the day when just combing our brows into a respectable arch is enough to get by. Until then, we wait.

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Samantha Scelzo

Samantha was a Watercooler Web Culture & Lifestyle intern at Mashable. Follow her on Twitter @samiscelz.

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