elevens
plural noun
vertical wrinkles between one’s eyebrows
What does elevens mean?
Elevens refers to a pair of wrinkles that sometimes form on one’s glabella—that is, on the otherwise smooth space between the eyebrows—when one frowns, furrows their brow, etc., and is sometimes viewed as a sign of aging.
Examples of elevens
… while I can stack up four horizontal lines across my forehead when I lift my brows, I just don’t get the vertical ‘elevens’. Instead, when I try to frown, my brow goes into a kind of thick pleat. I’m told that I have the wrong sort of brow lines. For the eye mask to work, your elevens need to be the classic vertical kind.
—Alice Hart-Davies, The Scottish Daily Mail, 2 Aug. 2021
I had really deep elevens and just pronounced wrinkles at a younger age in general.
—Using a mix of plants found in traditional herbal medicine (including ginseng, sanguisorba officinalis, and turmeric), the formula targets signs of aging—i.e. five different types of wrinkles around the eye, including the “elevens” between the brows.
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Where does elevens come from?
Elevens comes from the resemblance of these wrinkles to the number 11.
How is elevens used?
Elevens appears in online articles and conversations centered on beauty, beauty products, aging, and plastic surgery (among those who wish to prevent or erase their elevens).
As noted above, Daxxify (daxibotulinumtoxinA-lanm), or Daxi, is a new Botox alternative that’s used to treat and prevent wrinkles and, more specifically, severe frown lines. “Daxxify is FDA-approved to treat moderate to severe glabellar lines, otherwise known as frown lines,” says Bare Aesthetic founder Vanessa Coppola, a board-certified family nurse practitioner and injector specializing in facial aesthetics. “These are the facial lines we commonly refer to as the ‘elevens,’ which form in between our eyebrows by the action of frowning.”
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