Decembrow: Women Grow Unibrows for Charity

Dec. 10, 2010— -- Ladies, if you're tired of plucking those brows, just give up all together and grow a unibrow for charity this month.

The feminist website Feministing has dubbed December "Decembrow" and is encouraging women to grow their eyebrows a la Frida Kahlo and raise money for a cause of their choice.

Inspired in part by "Movember," a moustache-growing event each November that raises money and awareness for prostate cancer and other men's health issues, Feministing contributor Lori Adelmen wrote post earlier this month rallying women to take part in their own facial hair campaign.

"Decembrow is, of course, all about the brow. Specifically, the unibrow," she said. "While women in the U.S. generally rock two groomed brows, I say let's be inspired by Movember and take this opportunity to let our facial hair grow…for a cause."

Much as men who took part in Movember asked for pledges and donations for their causes, Adelman said that Decembrow activists are asking for the same. Money she raises will reportedly go to the International Women's Health Coalition, which focuses on women's health and reproductive rights.

Adelman said the idea for Decembrow also came after she read an article submitted by a Feministing reader on the popularity if the unibrow in Tajikistan.

The article said that the former Soviet republic is the "Land of Unibrow," where women think the singular brow is so beautiful that those not blessed genetically to have one use a dried herb to draw one on.

But not all women are as interested.

Penny Nance, the CEO of Concerned Women for America, told The Daily Caller that while she supported the charitable mission of the effort, she didn't quite understand the facial hair connection.

"While I applaud the effort to raise awareness and funds to stop prostate cancer, I find it curious that feminists would choose to embrace facial hair and mostly wonder how that is different than any other month of the year," Nance reportedly said in an e-mail.