Why do Japanese women shave their eyebrows and dye their black teeth when they get married?

Because shaving eyebrows and dyeing black teeth is a symbol of beauty for Japanese women, and it also represents the identity of married women. As early as heian period, dyeing black teeth became popular among the nobles. At first, dyeing black teeth was a status symbol of Japanese aristocrats. Noble men and women will dye their teeth black at bar mitzvahs and weddings. In their cognition, this kind of dress can better highlight the beauty of their faces. Later, the Japanese took blackened teeth as a symbol of married women. It was not until the Meiji Restoration that the ban on tooth dyeing was promulgated that this form of dressing gradually disappeared.

Eyebrow trimming is an ancient cosmetic technique for women, which is said to have been introduced from China. It was first popular among the nobles, and then gradually showed a trend of popularization. They think that shaving off all eyebrows is more conducive to sketching beautiful eyebrows with eyebrow pencil, and sketching different eyebrows according to different faces can fully reflect their unique beauty. Therefore, eyebrow shaping has become popular, and it often forms a unique makeup together with the painted white face and red lip gloss.

Later, like dyeing black teeth, eyebrow shaping has also evolved into a symbol of marriage, which can be called the most perfect makeup for Japanese brides. On the one hand, this way of dressing can be used as a sign to judge whether a woman is beautiful or not. On the other hand, this makeup is also to distinguish it from unmarried girls, which means married status. It can be said that shaving eyebrows and dyeing black teeth is a form of bidding farewell to the unmarried state in the past. But in modern times, the forms of dyeing black teeth and shaving eyebrows have rarely appeared, and this kind of alternative beauty has also become the beauty of the past.