"Beauty is skin deep."
My last haircut by the new girl at the salon was great. Taking her time, she was meticulous in making sure my ends were even. I was impressed. I asked for her card. Last Tuesday, I was due for some serious shearing, (more like pruning), so I requested her again.
Starting to sport a handlebar moustache, I asked for a lip wax. Again, taking her time, and with professional precision, my lip was zipped to a baby smooth baldness. I asked to have my eyebrows done. Plucking is tedious and I wanted the perfect arch, which I got.
I think we have all heard:
"Be careful what you ask for."
"She asked for it."
Well, I did ask for it. In her pleasant voice, she warned, this may sting a little. Due to my health issues and having years of experience with various physicians, "This may sting a little," is equivalent to asking, "You are on morphine, right?"
Being middle-aged, "This may sting a little," goes back to my childhood, doctoring bee stings, splinters, and cuts with my mother's cajoling when experience had taught me the wiser course was to run for it.
Well the beautician zipped and I flipped. Putting a stinging lotion on my brows, she nonchalantly said, "This is a sensitive area." Sensitive? What if it had been a bikini wax?
Looking in the mirror when I got home, my eyebrows now have whitewalls under each perfect arch and a matching set of parched red skin under my whitewalls. I guess eyelid dermabrasion is a new freebie with the ow-brow wax.
Six days of daily burn application later, I have scaled twice. The red rage has softened to a pale pink. A thin coat of Vaseline, followed with foundation, gently powdered, and finished with a gray, pinkish hue of eye shadow, it is hardly noticeable.
Words from the king of the overgrown bush brow - Andy Rooney:
"A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks."
He must have been traumatized by a brow waxing in his past. I will keep my teeth brushed, smile, but cling to my tweezers. And I left her a nice tip.
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Rare Disease Awareness Day - February 28, 2010
