I watched the State Of The Union address by President Bush last week. I didn’t intend to but happened to walk through the room when it came on and happened to notice something that I’ve missed before. Bush’s eyebrows. I knew he had eyebrows and I knew that they were a bit unusual but never took the time to study them.

In face reading, the eyebrows a marker for how someone thinks, or more exact, how one uses their thinking.

Angled eyebrows, (the ones that look like tents), show detachment and are usually found on people who are good at supervising, or at least think they’re good at supervising.

Straight eyebrows are found on people who deal with life from the stand point of ideas.

Curved eyebrows are found on people who deal with life from the stand point of emotions. There’s a lot more to it, however.

For instance, People who have a lot of hair all the way at the end - that part farthest from the center of the face - will get into a project and stick with it to the end - meaning lots of persistence. Bush shows this marker. In the middle of the eyebrows, Bush has the tent formation of the angled eyebrow. This shows managerial detachment. People with eyebrows that have a lot of hair in the eyebrow nearest the center of the face are quick to get into a situation or project. Bush has this marker also … but here’s the key to Bush’s thinking.

Bush not only has a lot of hair at the beginning of his eyebrows, there is an extra large amount of hair at the beginning and it’s elevated above the rest of the eyebrow. This is every unusual and is a marker for people who jump - very quickly - into a situation or project by forming ideas about how to proceed very early on. Bush’s brows are so extreme in this regard that we could say that he jumps to conclusions. Once he makes the leap he has the persistence to stick to that original conclusion. Further, he as the managerial detachment to stay the course even though the evolution of events might indicate that he should make some adjustments.

Such is the power of face reading.

There’s even more about eyebrows, but that’s for later. It will be interesting to see what kind of eyebrows run for office next year.

So I was watching the NFL playoffs not really caring who won. I was in it for the entertainment, but I remember one vivid picture in the middle of one of the games. It was a pass play and the receiver had faked out the defending player quite neatly and came back up field making him wide open. The quarterback spotted him and threw the pass. It was perfect: waist high – directly into the receiver’s hands … but he dropped the ball! Oh man! How could he have done that! I mean, this isn’t just any game. This game is for the right to go to the Super Bowl … and to blow a pass reception like that! I mean wow, wow, and wow.

As the receiver walked back, (I don’t know his name), the TV guys got an extreme close-up of his face. It was a beautiful shot and the most obvious detail was the player’s eyes. His eyes were huge and there was white visible below the iris. This is a marker for stress. There’s a word for it – “sanpaku” meaning three whites. It’s a condition where white shows not only on either side of the iris but below or above the iris also. Rose Rosetree, in her book Wrinkles are God’s Makeup, indicates that sanpaku eyes are a marker for an inferiority complex. I’ve read other places, that sanpaku eyes are also a sign of stress. Do you think this player felt inferior and stressed? Wow, I guess so.

You could certainly think he felt inferior and stressed, given the situation, but what if a co-worker came to work one morning with white showing under the iris. You might guess that he or she is stressed. I saw the sheriff of a small town interviewed the other day on the evening news. He was dealing with some crime that had caught the attention of the national press and the press had descended on this small town. The sheriff was trying to explain that they were doing the best they could but had made little progress in solving the crime – and his eyes showed white under the iris. It was very obvious.

People who show white below the iris deserve some compassion, unless it’s extreme. Then you, depending on the situation and how extreme, might consider avoiding them.