I got two eyebrows for the first time when I was in sixth grade. My Mom plucked them for me while we stood in the bathroom at my Parents’ house. I’m sure my brothers still remember me screaming and stomping my feet because it hurts pretty badly to get your eyebrows plucked! Especially, because I had so much hair to work with at the time!
After my Mom showed me how to do it, I plucked my eyebrows on my own until the spring before my junior year. My neighbor convinced me that I should start getting my eyebrows waxed. There was a really good place close to our house. I needed to allow my hair to grow in so that the woman would have a lot to work with when she reshaped my eyebrows.
So, for the entire summer before my junior year, I didn’t pluck my eyebrows and let them grow and naturally. I wore a bucket hat most times back then because it hid my eyebrows. If i saw someone I hadn’t seen for a while, I’d explain to them that I was growing my eyebrows out for the summer before I got them waxed for the first time.
I went to the same salon to get my eyebrows waxed from when I was 17 until I was 20. I took Sean to get his first haircut when the woman who currently waxes my eyebrows noticed that my eyebrows were uneven. I told her that I wasn’t really happy with the place I went to and she took over waxing my eyebrows from then on.
She has been waxing my eyebrows for the past 17 years. Because I have dark hair, I would ask more and then just my eyebrows, but my upper lip too. I had increased facial hair as a side effect of a medication I used to be on. So, she waxed my cheeks too! I distinctly remember telling my colleagues that I got my entire face waxed except for my nose and a tiny circle on my four head. I really wasn’t kidding because there was a time when that’s what I ended up getting waxed.
We were just talking about this the last time I got my eyebrows waxed. I got them waxed at the end of June because the woman who waxes my eyebrows and cuts my hair goes on vacation for the first two weeks in July. Now that I am on a fixed income, it works out that I usually get my eyebrows waxed just after I get paid, so once every month.
It’s pretty much time for me to get them waxed again but I haven’t made an appointment yet. When I was working, I made sure to stay up on my eyebrow waxing and it also made sure to notice when students got their eyebrows waxed.
This morning, as my Mom made her coffee and I drank my Kiefer, she told me that I look like Evita. I smiled as I sipped my Kiefer and I told her that is not who she meant to say. I told her that she means that I look like Frida Kahlo. That’s my Mom’s way of telling me that they need to get my eyebrows waxed.
I began to laugh pretty loudly and I let my Mom know that it is really hot outside! I will melt if I go to get my eyebrows waxed! It doesn’t really bother me because my house was built in 1951 so since I am in a wheelchair, I don’t need to look at myself in the mirror if I don’t want to. I don’t think I look THAT bad though, as I searched for pictures of Frida Kahlo, I found one that I kind of liked:
Or this one:
So, I know I need to get my eyebrows waxed and I also know that I will NOT let anyone else touch my eyebrows except for the woman who has been doing it for the past 17 years! So I guess for anyone who may see me before I get my eyebrows the waxed, I get it! They are a little out-of-control right now!