About the snow, we had our first snow last week. I was still sick, but D. went out late at night to buy us ice cream so we could observe our family tradition of eating ice cream the day of the first snow each winter. We've done it every year of our married lives. This year we almost didn't make it because I was sick, but he made a point of going out so we could carry it on. Sweet guy.
About eyebrows, I refuse to pluck. I think I was just told to pluck during the wrong time of my life wherein I was asserting that I did not need to downplay my ethnic characteristics in order to be beautiful. I still feel that things like commenting on a woman's eyebrows or a man's unibrow are racially motivated at their core, but not enough to be all up in arms about it. Now I mostly don't pluck because a) I'm lazy and b) I don't really know how.
It was supposed to be to prevent mothers from giving birth and then leaving the baby in a dumpster or public bathroom or whatever -- give them a way to abandon the baby safely.
A safe haven law exists here. Infants can be left at hospitals or fire houses. I thought that was common many places.
I pluck mine. Sometimes get uneven, but am mostly pretty good with it. I like my eyebrows even when I don't pluck. They've got a nice arch to them. Which makes raising one eyebrow very effective!
It's one of those things about which I occasionally stop and think, "I need to get one of the Buffistas to teach me how to do this." But then I never do.
I have about half of my natural eyebrow at this point.
I think originally such laws were to try to save infants from being dumped in dumpsters and such. And then some states expanded it to save toddlers from abusive homes and then...Nebraska took it to the logical extreme.
and xpost with Hil!
I have about 1/2 my natural eyebrows, and I still want Michelle Obama's! I am Italian, and my unibrow would put Frida Kahlos to shame!
Wow. On Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the family had something like four kids and then adopted five or so more from Haiti. (I lost count of the exact number of kids -- there were lots of them.) As part of the "get people to donate stuff" part of the show, the University of Toledo gave all of the kids full scholarships.
A bunch of businesses also donated all kinds of stuff to the orphanage in Haiti. Including a whole lot of High School Musical 3 t-shirts, which the kids were all wearing in the shots of them opening the other stuff.
I do not pluck. I have it waxed. And I do it because I don't have particularly hairy...well, anything, but my extra eyebrow hairs grow all higgeldy under the natural arch.
This is not where my hair should be. This is where HIGHLIGHTER goes.
But I am wacky about my eyebrow obsession. In fact, I'm trying to squeeze in an appointment tomorrow morning so no one at my new job sees me with unemployment brows.
I fully support anyone in their hairyhappiness. I just like a smooth aesthetic all over -- better makeup and lotion app, a little extra exfoliation. Except the bikini line. I don't need it, and by god, after this year, my poonanny deserves whatever privacy it can get.
And with that, off to a hot shower. With exfoliation and defoliation. And a clean lemon scent that spells WORKER!!!
I'm pretty much makeup self-taught because my mom never did anything beyond lipstick and I'd never think to ask, but would watch my friends. In recent years, it's been mom asking me about brow pencil (which I don't use, but figured out how for her) and eyeliner and mascara as her brows and eyelashes fade. One of my aunts uses dry/wet kohl eyeliner from Egypt (she has a friend who ships it to her now that they don't live there) and mom expresses an interest in that on occasion, but then chickens out, saying she can't possibly figure it out now, at her age. Which, bosh, if she wants to.
