July 24, 2012

My unruly arches

 Via

I am blessed.
But God didn't bless me with the most perfectly shaped brows.
I have unruly, no good, starting-to-turn-gray-too brows.  They are thick, massive and grow like weeds.  They are not symmetrical either.  Fuckers.  

I'd blame genetics on my lack of perfection, but I think I fucked them up years ago in high school when I let a friend of mine at an over night youth group outing tweeze them for the first time around 3AM.  Let's just chalk that up to the pile of horrid teenage decisions I am known for.

When it comes to my eyebrows, I'd drop my savings account on them if I had to to keep them orderly.  There are times to be frugal.  When it comes to beauty, I splurge.  I have to.  I really, really have to.

So when I found a salon nearby that actually does threading and rumor had it they don't fuck things up, I was sold.  Sold like a fly on poo.  Like a whore on Sunset Blvd.  Like white on rice, like...

Over the last 3 years I've been having them waxed because I didn't trust anyone who wasn't straight-up Persian to thread my brows.  Those women always have the most amazing brows.  Trust me.

I found a gem named Kimmy who did my brows today, and not only did she thread them to perfection, she used about 3 different types of tweezers to get those gnarly strays. 

Funny how after $22+ el-tippo and some brow threading I feel confident in my appearance.  So much so that I indulged in not one but TWO Skinny Cow ice cream bars for dinner. For dinner.
TWO.

And now my self confidence is in the crapper, and I should have run an extra mile tonight.  But at least when I did run, I had some good-as-crack looking brows.

"Hey, who's that random fat ass chic running in the n'hood?  I don't know, but boy she's got some fan-freaking-tastic eyebrows."