Doja Cat, Madonna, Jared Leto and More Celebrities Who Have Shaved Their Eyebrows Off

Whether it was for a movie role, beauty choice or simply because TikTok said to, here's a roundup of stars who've said "bye bye" to their brows!

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Doja Cat

Doja Cat
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A hairless [Doja] cat! Known for her unique style, the "Woman" singer opened up about her decision to not only shave her eyebrows, but her entire head, in August 2022.

After struggling with her natural hair for years, describing it as a "f---ing nightmare," Doja shared that she saw "no point" in having hair.

"What is the use of having hair if you're not going to f---ing wearing it out? I don't even sport it, so I'm shaving it off. There's no point. I've never felt so f---ing happy, like ... it's very funny how much of an effect taking my hair off my head has positively influenced me," she continued.

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Kanye West

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Evidently, the rapper is no stranger to the razor! When Kanye West debuted his absent arches in November 2021, the shocking shave came as no surprise as it was a follow up to his bizarre bald-patch buzzcut the month prior.

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Jared Leto

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There's very little Jared Leto won't (hair)do for a role! While the actor has become synonymous with his extreme method acting, he goes all-in on his physical appearance, too.

Leto portrayed different eyebrow-less, lipstick-wearing characters in back-to-back films when he starred in 2013's Dallas Buyers Club and 2016's Suicide Squad.

"They started to grow back slower and slower, so I got a little scared. But they did come back," he told Ellen DeGeneres about the re-growth process. "It's going to be strange to make a film with eyebrows and without lipstick. I'm going to feel kind of naked."

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Amandla Stenberg

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Amandla Stenberg fashionably fell victim to a viral TikTok trend that influenced their hair removal decision. The star showed of their shaved, yet perfectly shaped brows during a getting ready guide with Vogue.

"I just did that thing that everyone is doing now where I shaved off the end of my eyebrows because of godd--n TikTok so I have a different eyebrow shape than usual," they explained while applying some tinted gel to their eyebrow hairs. "But honestly... I'm absolutely loving it."

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Antonio Banderas

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Antonio Banderas said "adios" to his eyebrows in what evolved into a makeover masterpiece! Morphing into painter Pablo Picasso, the Spanish actor fully committed to his role in National Geographic's biographical series Genius in 2018.

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Jodie Turner-Smith

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Tweezing, plucking, waxing ... not for Jodie Turner-Smith! The actress posted a video to her Instagram Story in March documenting her bold brow removal process.

The short clip featured Turner-Smith with a disposable razor to her head, ridding every last follicle from her face. The text overlay simply read, "Bye bye brows."

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Ethan Peck

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Ethan Peck's process to pointed-ears-and-shaved-eyebrows as Spock in the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was a commitment, but time effective to say the least!

Prosthetic department head Chris Bridges told Variety that the decision to shave Peck's brows cut the prosthetic process down from two hours to precisely 72 minutes.

"I remember sitting down with Ethan and saying, 'Let me shave your brows. They'll grow back. I promise," recalled Bridges. "As long as they don't wax them or damage the follicle, they'll grow back.' So, he was like, 'All right, let's do it.'"

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Albert Brooks

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If you had to describe Albert Brooks' character in 2011's Drive, a Tommy Bahama shirt paired with a lack of eyebrows would illustrate a perfect picture of mobster Bernie Rose.

"I knew what I wanted the character to look like," Brooks told Interview Magazine. "I emailed [my makeup artist] photos and I would wait with baited breath. He wrote back, 'Terrific!' "

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Madonna

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Whether she's rocking cone bras or controversial crosses, Madonna hasn't been afraid to pair her boundary-breaking outfit choices with equally shocking beauty looks since she first hit the scene in the 1980s.

And while she's always been one to flaunt and embrace her body hair — telling Harper's Bazaar, "I refused to shave, I had hairy armpits" — she did quite the opposite to her eyebrows in 1992.

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Whoopi Goldberg

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Whoopi Goldberg revealed why she doesn't have eyebrows on The View in September 2022 as she and her co-hosts discussed the "no-brow look."

"I had eyebrows as a little kid and you know how men get those bumps? I started to get them on my face so my mother removed them," Goldberg explained. "And so I just keep doing it because I don't know my face with eyebrows unless I'm working — they put them on and take them off."

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Amelia Hamlin

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Amelia Hamlin shaved her eyebrows in October 2022, documenting the "baby-smooth" transformation in a behind-the-scenes TikTok video posted by Interview Magazine.

In the clip, Hamlin sits in hair and makeup with shaving cream on her eyebrows as a stylist takes a razor to her forehead. "That was a big one. Wow, OK! That was a big one. I felt them go," she said with a laugh after.

Hamlin has been bleaching her eyebrows as far back as September 2021, when she donned the trend for her London Fashion Week debut, shortly after her breakup with Scott Disick.

The daughter of Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin previously referred to 2021 as "the year of the bleached brow & dreams coming true…" while reflecting on her year.

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