Today I had my hair cut and had my eyebrows waxed. Yeah, I get my eyebrows waxed about twice a year. I know what you’re thinking…”What a DIVA!” I know. Totally high maintenance. Ouch. While I love the look of my eyebrows when they are properly groomed, I sadly don’t always groom them adequately myself, thus the waxing.
Every time I Do wax my eyebrows those two times each year, I am reminded of the first time I attempted to tweeze my eyebrows. The year was 1998, and I was on a roadtrip with my girlfriends. We went to Tahoe to attend the wedding of another girlfriend. The wedding was in late September, and I was 8 months pregnant. What a great traveling buddy I was, let me tell you. One night in our hotel room we got to talking about personal grooming and the art of the eyebrow tweeze. “I don’t need to pluck my eyebrows,” I said foolishly, “I’m blonde.” Oh, the naivety. My dear friends Melinda, Michelle and Sharmyn grabbed the tweezers and went at it. OW! I lasted about 5 seconds and decided that my eyebrows were just fine in their natural state.
Either I’ve matured or grown more vain, because now I do actually try to keep up with the eyebrow maintenance. I try. But, like I said, sometimes I let it go. It still hurts though. If I had more money than time, I would definitely be checking out some laser hair removal. Wouldn’t it be great to NEVER have to tweeze? And then it would be awesome to never have to shave the legs, either. Smooth.
Oh, well.
For the moment, I will enjoy my freshly groomed eyebrows. Well, when they stop hurting, that is.
I’ve never tweezed my eyebrows. I am a blond.
I’ve never tweezed or waxed my eyebrows.
I remember when I realized that I needed to tweeze my eyebrows. I hated that realization – because once you have it, you can never go back to the bliss of not knowing you have two furry creatures on your face.
I’ve always done the tweezing thing. Now I hardly have any eyebrows, so you have to be careful. I think you should post a picture of your new face!
Melinda plucked my eyebrows once, almost 30 years ago. They haven’t been plucked since