waxed

April 22, 2008 by j.

I got a phone call this evening.. my mom, hysterically sobbing because she had a beautician go bananas on her and wax off too much of her eyebrows. If you’ve ever seen or heard your parents cry, then you know how traumatic this was for me!! She had me fairly convinced that this demon waxologist had accidentally and enthusiastically ripped off half of her face with duct tape. I hurriedly packed up every makeup product that I own and rushed to her house, practicing speeches in my head about how having a bald face is the newest Hollywood trend and if Mona Lisa can pull it off then it can’t be that bad, et cetera et cetera. I get home expecting to find Boy George, and here is my poor wailing mother…

She looks *exactly* the same to me.

Either I’m not very observant, or I’m genetically doomed to a lifetime of incurable vanity.

PS - For this post, I looked around on the web for images of browless people, and found a lot of pictures of folks who have alopecia (which I’m not about to make fun of). I did also curiously come across many photos of Whoopi Goldberg - I wasn’t aware that she has no eyebrows, but there are lots of folks on the internet that feel it’s worth pointing out. Not sure what’s going on in this photo but as you can see, they are all correct - no brows!

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