On this day, corresponding to September 20, 1999, the lady of oriental dance, the great artist, Tahia Carioca, left our world after a life full of art, struggle, love and hot events, during which she excelled in acting, dancing and patriotic positions.
Carioca suffered at the beginning of her life and suffered at the hands of her brother after the death of her father, who bound her with iron and imprisoned her, until she fled Ismailia as a boy and made her artistic path and suffered in her beginnings a lot until she achieved fame.
Carioca was distinguished throughout her life by the intense intelligence that helped her draw attention to her talent, and she was keen to learn and educate until she developed herself, which made her at the beginning of her artistic life the subject of news published in newspapers about that novice dancer who received lessons in the French language and appeared in halls She works in her, including the Badiaa Masabni lounge, and she carries in her arms the books of Taha Hussein, Al-Aqd, Tawfiq Al-Hakim and other great writers.
In a rare issue of Al-Kawkab magazine published in 1959, the magazine published an article about star-slashing, in which she mentioned that greeting Carioca was in its beginnings and when she felt that the uproar that had aroused her as a cultured dancer began to decrease and I said with her the news published about her, she went out to people with a new fashion in styling her eyebrows, where people At that time, they used to see women with thick eyebrows that gradually fade from the middle, but greeting Carioca came out to people with two thin, curved eyebrows upward resembling number 8, and she was the first Arab and Egyptian woman to follow this new fashion, and it caused a sensation in the newspapers, especially when Doria Shafiq imitated her One of the pioneers of women’s liberation, who was at that time one of the first girls to graduate from the Egyptian University.
The newspapers said at the time that Doria Shafiq imitated the greeting of Carioca, which appeared by slashing the arched eyebrows, which angered Doria Shafiq, so she published a statement in one of the magazines saying that she saw this fashion in one of the French magazines, and concluded her statement with reproach to the newspapers that said that the university graduate had imitated a dancer, and then Doria Shafiq was subjected to widespread criticism and a harsh campaign in the newspapers, as journalists said that the era in which the differences between female and female daughters had passed and there were no longer any differences between groups and classes, and considered that what Doria Shafiq said was rooted in the class and the inferior view of the artist.
After that, Carioca eyebrow fading spread among the women of society and with it more clients for the hairdresser of the artist who advised everyone who inquired about her about the new fashion to go to it, and this fashion prevailed until 1942, when Hollywood girls appeared with very thick eyebrows and were imitated by the women of Urba and then the women of the East, including Carioca, which She was the first to abandon the thin, arched eyebrow fading, and then it was also imitated by the women of the Egyptian society.
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