Truth behind Instagram's bizarre 'high heel eyebrow' trend

There's more to this beauty "trend" than you think. Photo / Instagram

The latest Instagram eyebrow "beauty trend" may shock you at first. But before you freak out, you need to know the back-story.

Another day, another Instagram "beauty trend" us mere mortals will never understand.

The latest bizarre look to grace social media apparently involves one eyebrow being morphed into the shape of a high heel, like the emoji.

Yep. Evidently regular human eyebrows are no longer good enough, and must now consist of three distinct lines that permanently make you look violently surprised.

Here's a quick look at the supposed brow style in action:

And to think we were just getting over the "halo brow" — a similarly unusual aesthetic in which the eyebrows join up at the centre of the forehead.

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HALO BROW🔥(follow @hannahdoesmakeupp if u see this) lollll so me and @daisyamalie were talking about the fishtail brow trend & then we came up with this😂😂 ~ @sleekmakeup vitality foundation in 04, and solstice highlight palette @sosu_bysuzannejackson primark Dubai lashes @nyxcosmetics tame and frame brow pomade, espresso ~~~ #bbloggers #beautyblogger #makeupblogger #beautyaddict #beautyguru #beauty #makeup #lipstick #foundation #eyeliner #nyx #fotd #nyx #uk #sleek #highlight #falselashes #morphe #morphebabes #bretmansvanity #wakeupandmakeup #like4like #eyebrows #featuremuas #mua #makeupartist #mue #makeupartistry #bbdaretoshare

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But there's more to this story than you think.

Many of these so-called "beauty" trends are actually the work of a 19-year-old boy from London.

Stefan Oskys, who runs the Photoshop Instagram account SkyEditz, is a former arts school student who works in digital marketing.

In his downtime, he likes to digitally alter photos of popular Instagram models and repost them, tagging influencers to get their attention and increase the reach of his work.

Oskys likes to alter their eye and hair colour, add an obscene amount of highlighter to their faces, and — in this case — replaces their regular human brows with edits so perfectly ridiculous they belong in a museum.

This particular look went viral after blogger Megan Feather reported his edit with the caption: "HIGH HEEL EYRBROWS (sic) yes or no??? Everyone was going mental over this on @skyzeditz insta these trends are funny I love them! So creative @skyzeditz ur so amazing it's a joke it's funny and it's just a creative idea."

On the high heel brow, he told UniLad he was basically just trying to troll people.

"I was inspired by Apple emojis!" he said. "I was scrolling through them seeing what I could potentially create and saw the high heel and thought 'That would so trigger everyone', let's go with that one."

He was also the pioneer of the recent "fish tail" brow look, which — terrifyingly enough — actually did become a genuine beauty trend.

Social media users are divided on Oskys work. He receives a lot of compliments for his editing work, but others say it's a "ridiculous" trend taken "too far".

"I don't really care about the comments on how my stuff goes against beauty standards. Editing is all about being creative and so is makeup. Who says there should be a norm?

"That's like saying there should only be one sexuality or one race, I say let people be themselves and do their own thing and take your boring mainstream culture elsewhere."