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.
My god, Loki's meerkatting cracks me up. I don't know if it is a kitten thing or a Loki thing.
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!
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Of course, now looking at my brows, I think I should grow them back in some more.
Of course, now looking at my brows, I think I should grow them back in some more.
Wha? They're perfect in the current shot. Sexiness achieved.
But the good news in that is that my past no longer defines me and is not uppermost in my mind. Ironically, it's the thing I promise my clients and yet sometimes forget why I am so passionate about it...that by creating new habits of thought and behavior, the way you choose to be in the world becomes second nature. You don't have to think about being well anymore, you can just live well.
bonny, I've bookmarked your post. I love so many things about it.
I have no idea how to properly pluck my eyebrows so I get them waxed every couple months. I've thought about going down to Tampa to try getting my brows 'threaded' but haven't done it yet. Since I naturally have thicker brows, I do the "Brooke Shields brows" fairly well.
A couple years ago I got a spa treatment package as a gift. The woman doing my facial waxed my brows and did them more traditionally. It was strange seeing my brows so thin!
I like the two ouches and some yipes approach. My pain threshold is generally really high -- but trying to tweeze my own brows reduces me to a whimpering child.
My mom and I went to the new Sephora in my hometown of St. Joseph -- it's a teeny one INSIDE the Penney's, huh?? -- and I tried some dark circle fix that I've been eyeing (heh) in the Benefit catalog for years. But I'm a try before you buy girl when it comes to high end makeup.
It was called Lemon-Aid and I quite liked it! It lightened and softened my dark cicles without that annoying glitter, and did not cake.
OTOH, Smashbox's new O-Glow lipgloss looked like flourescent ass.
But I saw my mom buy me a travel size of Tarte's gelly blush, which I have also lusted for for years, but the regular size is just to honking big. I'd never use it before it dried up. I'd have to rouge my nipples a la Josephine twice a day just to get through half!
