My 14 year old daughter used to be a tom boy,that is,until she hit junior high school. Not quite sure what caused the transformation,but now she is a total girl and shall I say “high maintenance!” For those of you who know me,high maintenance is NOT used to describe me at all so where all this is coming from with her is beyond me.
So the other day my daughter asked me if she could get her eyebrows “cleaned up and shaped”. I thought to myself,they look fine to me but,if she really feels the need to do it,why not,some good mom and daughter bonding time right? I mentioned to her that there was a shop in the mall that I’ve walked by that advertises ‘threading’instead of waxing. Threading,which according to Wikipedia,is an ancient method of hair removal. In threading,a thin cotton thread specially designed for threading is doubled,then twisted. It is then rolled over areas of unwanted hair,plucking the hair at the follicle level. Unlike tweezing,where single hairs are pulled out one at a time,threading can remove short lines of hair.
She jumped on the idea and we headed over to the mall. She was so excited on the way over and talked my ear off,this was turning out to be a pretty fun little outing after all. In the mall we went,we quickly found the shop and she was in a chair in a matter of seconds. ZIP,ZIP,ZIP with the thread and she was done. She was right,her eyebrows did look better. Then my daughter said to me,
“come on mom,why don’t you do it too!”
The woman who did her eyebrows then chimes in,
“Yes,yes,you’re eyebrows are a bit bushy,come sit down,you should be doing this all the time.”
Ouch,you told me it wouldn’t hurt!Omg,talk about feeling about an inch tall,into the chair I went. I can’t believe,after 45 years,I was getting my freakin eyebrows done. ZIP,ZIP the top of my brows were done before I even had a chance to rethink the idea. That wasn’t so bad.
Next came the bottoms of the brows. I was told to pull my eyelid taut as she made a nice straight line with the thread and then ZIP, I nearly jumped out of the chair,what a sensitive area! My eyes started tearing as she did another ZIP. I wanted to ask for a second to get my composure but she took my hands and moved them to the other eye and ZIP,ZIP, I was done as more tears came down my face. She handed me the mirror and I took a look,aside from my eyebrow area being bright red,they looked good.
As my daughter and I walked back to the car she told me how fun that was and that we should do that once a month. With a fake smile I looked her said,
“for sure,I wouldn’t miss it!”
I always thought I was pretty tough but ripping hair out of my sensitive areas,I’m not so good with so,if my daughter ever asks to get a ‘brazilian’,I don’t think I will participate in that one!
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