![]() You’d think that would have turned me off to the whole thing, but it didn’t. ![]() I left with shapelier brows as well as second-degree burns on the skin around them. She took me to a salon to get my first professional eyebrow wax. I think I was about 13 when my mom informed me that it was time to start taming the caterpillars on my face. ![]() One day, you’re Elizabeth Taylor the next, Clara Bow. You just pick your style, slap ’em on where your eyebrows are supposed to be, and color away. ![]() She had a massive selection of different shapes to choose from, all purchased from a mail-order catalog (this was before Amazon). After years of tweezing them down to just a few wispy hairs and filling the rest in with a pencil, she finally shaved them off and starting using stencils to draw them in. I can vividly remember my grandmother sitting before her three-way cosmetic mirror and carefully, painstakingly applying her eyebrows for the day. Just about every woman in my family, at one time or another, has fallen victim to surgical-grade tweezers and home hot wax kits. I think skinny eyebrows run in my family, not because we have fine hair, but because we must be genetically predisposed to overplucking.
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