“In the Middle Ages, it is thought that Europeans did not pay much attention to removing hair, but by Elizabethan times in the 1500’s, Europeans began removing hair again. Surprisingly, one of the most popular areas to remove hair from wasn’t the legs or underarms – women would remove their eyebrows and front hairs from their heads to give the illusion of a fashionably elongated forehead, the preferred look of the day which some attribute to the natural look of Queen Elizabeth herself – a testament to her influence of the culture, fashion of the time. According to some reports, mothers would try to prevent hair from growing on the foreheads of their children so the child had the best chance at having a nice, long fashionable forehead!”

http://www.nonohairtv.com/history-of-hair-removal/