Like most women, I could easily list a number of things I'd like to change about my appearance . . . but my eyebrows? I'd never given them much thought beyond making sure I didn't have a unibrow.
As I've gotten older, I feel like I've gracefully accepted the physical changes that go along with aging. I noticed my first gray hair at 32. No big thing. Wrinkles? I prefer to think of them as laugh lines around my eyes, showing what a happy life I've lived. But yeah, the fact that my eyebrows look more and more bushy -- like my Grandpa Malcom's Scottish eyebrows -- every year? I suppose I had to do something about it sometime.
So when I saw a girl doing "threading" at a mall kiosk last week -- and noticed that it was only $10 -- I thought, why not?
Here's why not, friends: it hurts!! When I asked how much it would hurt, the girl said it's less painful than waxing. I think we've established that I've not maintained my eyebrows via any beauty method before, so that really didn't mean anything to me.
Once I got in the chair? Owwwww!!
Yeah, I suppose I'm not really a good judge of pain. Maybe if I'd have experienced childbirth, this would seem like a walk in the park, but as it was, I nearly told her to stop multiple times. I was afraid, though, that I would look like Joey. (That episode of Friends was all I could think of as I sat there gritting my teeth.)
So anyway, I now have stylish, skinny eyebrows . . . and you know how many people have noticed? Absolutely zero.
Here's the before, during (one done and one not), and after shots . . . huge difference right?
At least it was only ten dollars. :)
(Not sure what threading is? Here's a tutorial: http://video.about.com/hairremoval/See-the-Threading-Technique.htm . . . I'd recommend taking some Tylenol before you try it.)
Threading has always intrigued me. I couldn't conceptualize it so the video was really helpful. Your eyebrows in the bottom photo look very shapely and I bet they'll come in handy for any "come hither" looks as you're still a newlywed. :)
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