I hear this is the year of the eyebrow. I could be wrong, it may have been 2010 that was the year of the eyebrow.
But when I ran into Viking Girl on the street I said, "It's the year of the eyebrow!" and she replied, "Oh, it's the year of the rabbit AND the eyebrow?"
I was on my way to my favorite esthetician to do something about my eyebrows, which looked like shredded anchovies.
My hair girl Jewel-Lee had suggested I get them tinted because my brows were so light and didn't match my hair. I really have a thing about eyebrows because I hate my own but I don't know how to do them.
During the early 1990's. I had burgundyish hair. I dyed my own brows to match.
That was pretty. All y'all who are now dying your hair sky blue and your brows to match, you little trendy monsters, please know YOU LOOK BAD, not rad.
Then at one point I bleached my brows. Maybe I was going for the Thompson Twins look? Thank you Wink at Me, I ripped off your photo.
So it was time to experiment and bring in the paid professional for my year of the brow.
She finished waxing and tinting and brushing and then I looked in the mirror.
Um...wow.
I went home to Salty D. and started talking about how I was going to try to make Panang Curry for dinner. (The curry turned out to be an unsuccessful experiment.)
He said, "Why do you look so surprised?"
"I'm not surprised. What? You mean my new eyebrows make me look surprised?"
He looked away. "No, no. Well, yeah, the shape of them looks like you heard something really surprising. Or maybe like you're upset about something."
Like when Elaine drew on Uncle Leo's brows with a Sharpie? Dear God.
I am laughing my eyebrows off. What's left of them. Finding and drawing them on is a daily challenge, and I face the world each day with a different expression.
Posted by: Jonesbabie | 11 February 2011 at 05:28 PM
Ugh, eyebrows.
Why didn't I ever listen to my mom or Brooke Sheilds???? Maybe I'd have some left at this point. I wish I had anchovies -- mine are useless mousy dishwater blondish-light brownish slivers that don't match any shade of hair I've ever had . . . including my natural.
Now that my hair is auburn, it's even more of a production to even them out and fill them out. Love my new Lorac creamy eye pencil in auburn. And my e.l.f. brow tamer (which mimics fine hairs). And my brow powder. Yes, my barely-there eyebrows require three products.
I actually have my eyebrows "done" 24 hours a day even though I'm fine going bare-faced out in public. With my brows "on", I'm ready to face the world.
In conclusion, my deserted island items would all be brow-related.
Posted by: lg | 12 February 2011 at 07:58 PM
Kudos for looking like you have totally natural brows, lg. I have no skills in applying brow pencil no matter how much I practice.
Oh and this brow tint thing has already faded. 1 week.
p.s. RIP Uncle Leo
Posted by: blaugra | 17 February 2011 at 12:32 PM