eyebrows of non-doom

[lobelia321]

I forgot to post my eyebrow experience of two weeks back. I got them waxed and trimmed. A most amazing experience! I have always had Frida Kahloesque handlebar eyebrows, and to steel myself for the beginning of teaching, I thought I'd get them tidied up. So I booked an appointment at this beauty clinic -- I have NEVER been to a beauty clinic! Am I a real woman now? Half the time, I've no idea what real women do. They wax and pluck and lord knows what, they know how to walk in high heels and they put make-up on their eyelids. All highly mysterious stuff. The eyebrow-removalist said that some girls (mostly of foreign extraction, she implied -- I'm of foreign extraction but I think she must have been referring to a more Southern European and Latin American foreign extraction) come in every 2 or 3 weeks, "they really don't like body hair". *blinks*

The space between my eyebrows (up my nose from my philtrum and above the crossbow of my spectacles) was then strange and pink for about ten days. Because of course not just the bushy hairs get waxed off but the whole kaboodle, all the little softy downy ones, too, so that spot felt really naked. Now it's all starting to grow fuzzy again. But wow, I have eyebrows in the plural!

*waves at badgermonkey who has for ages propounded the joys of t'tweezer*

Comments

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

the good thing about waxing is, after a few times, you don't need to ever go again. when the odd hair pops up, you just tweeze it off.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I've tried to do this but I am either completely hopeless of have a very bad old tweezer.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Wow, you can do that? I have two eyebrows but they are fuzzy caterpillars and I have no idea how to make them look, you know, "groomed". I've often thought about going into a salon and asking, "ok, show me how to do my eyebrows" but was afraid they would laugh at me.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I saw a sign and it said 'eyebrow trimming'. So I said that is what I wanted. It wasn't very expensive. The woman was about my age with teenage children and very chatty and completely unfazed. I said I'd never been to have my eyebrows done before, and she explained it all in detail and showed me the wax and the little cloth thingies she puts the wax on and said she'd show me half-way through so that I could say when it was enough. I said I didn't want it to be too obvious; I didn't want a scared-eyed plucked look. I lay down on this couch thing and she tied my hair back and just did stuff. She chatted away the whole time about her daughter and her father-in-law's funeral and the other 'girls' who come in all the time to get their hair removed. It's an entire world out there!!!

Go into the salon! They won't laugh! You're their bread and butter.

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

See, it's easy for YOU to go without the tweezing or (*shudder* I did it once, and. never. again.) waxing because you're of a light complexion and so is your hair; it's less noticeable and therefore you can very well "get by" in terms of soceity's constrictive standards of beauty that so many of us are ruled by, whether we like it or not. But for those of us who ARE of Latin American descent and DO scarily resemble Frida Kahlo with her I-don't-give-a-damn unibrow, most of us can't fancy living without the beauty by torture. My hair is thick and dark and grows entirely too quickly, and therefore if I don't shave or pluck on a regular basis, I resemble a chia pet. Waxing, though? Fuckthatnoooo. I'm such a wuss. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, Gabby, I have seen you in physical real life action and you are not of a dark complexion!! The hair, I don't know, you may have dyed it, *g*. Islamic poetry often mentions the unibrow as a beautiful attribute of a desirable woman, ditto Arabian Nights.

Pity you never get to see the brow under the shador. Otherwise we could all migrate.

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, I didn't mean I, myself are of dark complexion, though my body hair? Dark and thick and unsightly, unfortunately, due to the curse that my Hispanic father set upon me from an early age. I take great care to remove all that is creepily noticeable, however. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You're living in the wrong country and century, I fear. When I moved to the US in 1990 from Berlin, my German girlfriends gave me an electric shaver. They thought I would need this as preparation for the world of the hairless. It was regarded as quite an exotic object in Germany back then. Most of the women I knew did not shave anything off. I had started to in protest at German celebration of hairiness but the funny thing is, I never once used that shaver when in the US and never once shaved there. It was as if in the land of the hairless I needed to turn the other way and be hairy. I was a bit embarrassed wearing vests, I admit. It didn't stop me from having the most active sex life I've ever had in my life. But then, it's not about men. They don't care. We care.