Hahahahahaha, Mel, your story has cheered me up out of my dumps today. Sorry about your eyelashes, though. I am fair and have almost no eyebrows anyway, so have never had to suffer through that. My duaghter has heavy brows, though, and she goes to an IndoPak hair salon (we have a large immigrant population here) and they "thread" them. They take two pieces of thread (like sewing thread) and twist it and roll it and twist the hairs up in it and it pulls them out. She says it is less painful than having them waxed. I am sure your eyelashes will grow back in! Thanks for the story!

Yeah, I heard about Threading. They had a show on Threading on Oprah some years ago. There was this lady and she had two long pieces of thread and she would take off the eyebrows. I thought it was the most fascinating thing I ever saw. I also said to myself 'I can do this in 2 minutes flat", so why would I go and pay and have my eyebrows threaded???

I guess, now that I've waxed off my eyelashes, that was a dumb question, hah!!!!


I can only imagine if I bought two pieces of that thread and went to town on my eyebrows. I'd probaby thread off my nose!!!! lol

Melody

This has never, ever been my thing? Couldnt even learn to put on brow liner rite... About now, that is a good thing tho...one less issue to deal with?

Waxing always struck me as something that could really truly HURT...therefore it was ignored.

Plucking tho, as you described? DUH? No way no how!!!! That aspect of shaving has been brought up in the cancer boards and I just do NOT GET IT?
Using a razor blade type shaver? DUH. You got neuropathy and you are using sharp objects? Ever heard of electric? Of course it's like vacuums where they don't tell you the 'filter' for the vac, like replacement shaver heads cost almost as much as the appliance. Thing is shaving your self with an electric appliance, while you need more parts..and thus costs more.. IT IS SAFER...DUH?

I do have to say tho, before that day with the 'blowtorch' I had NOT had bangs...ever? Not to mention that these were very 'distinct' bangs....

Threading eyebrows? Who would have thought of such a thing, let alone DONE IT? Makes me glad I am truly a homebody about now. - j

Waxing hurts... Plucking hurts, although not as bad as waxing... And THREADING??? I thought it hurt like h*ll... I have been threaded by 2 experts and I can tell you it was NOT fun, no matter how fast they did it... Plus it leaves my face red and raw...

If you drag your mouse over to Mel's picture, you can cover up one eye with the little hand and imagine what our Mel must look like right now... I can only imagine what Alan had to say about that!

Heh heh heh...

Cathie

Cathie:


Well, heh heh hey, right back at you. You see, when I was 13, my mom and dad sent me to charm school. That's right, way back in the old days, they thought I could pick up some pointers, so I attended this charm school where you learned how to walk around with a book on your head, you learned posture, eloqution, and you learned the proper way to clean your face and to apply makeup.

I will never forget when we learned to make the letter M on our foreheads. You take the two index fingers from each hands and put some moisturizer on each finger and starting in the middle of the forehead, you trace the lette M from the middel of the forehead, going to the top and going down again, tracing the letter M. It was supposed to prevent frown lines.

I learned how to put on shadow, eyeliner and mascara. I also learned the art of false eyelashes, and wore them for many years. I wore two pairs on top of the eyes and a pair on the bottom. I also painted the twiggy lashes on the bottom. I must have looked absolutely ridiculous but when your 18, you think you are FINE!!!!

But I remember how to fool the makeup procedure so now I can make it look like I have those 7 lashes back.

So hey hey hey right back at you. lol

Melody

Sorry you're out of eyebrows now. The positive part of this is that you can go back to those old days and "undust" what you learned there or you can just get a bangs that passes the leavel of your brows. Good luck!

I tweezed the same areas for so long.....at 46 I hardly have to pluck anything anymore. A very few strays from time to time is all.

I've enjoyed reading the stories about the waxing and the Nair. I never even knew, until very recently, that one *could* wax their eyebrows and my first and loudest thought was, "OUCH!!!" And then Hell NO! LOL!

I could give you some of mine--I have huge eyelashes, and very thick brows. Probably all part of the Mediterranean hirsute-ness, I suppose.

Of course, I'm saying this from a male perspective, but I find it barbaric that women subject themselves to so much pain in the pursuit of beauty. (High heels, anyone?) I also highly suspect that women are not doing this for men, but much more for each other, and for the requirements of social norms, and designers, beauty consultants, and other "experts". I get the feeling that if you polled 100 heterosexual men, a majority would not care much what length or thickness a woman's eyelashes/brows were. Symmetry seems to be the most important element in visual attractiveness (at least for males looking at females--but probably often for females looking at males, too), in that in some evolutionary manner it reflects health and resistance to disease, and therefore "breeding desirability". (For example, some men like large breasts, and some, small, but few can get over the initial visceral shock of the two being very different in size.)

My wife also has thick Mediterranean eyebrows. I still think she's cute. (And I wish she didn't feel the need to cosmetize when going out--so much of that stuff smells really badly to those of us with sensitivites.)

Hi Glenn:

From what I've read (scientifically), it's all about pheromones. Either animals or man, it's the same experience. We both give off pheromones and the opposite side either responds or doesn't respond. Years ago (about 30), they created a fragrance called Androgen (if my memory serves). It was supposed to be the first synthetic pheromone, and woman were supposed to put it on and drive men crazy.

Now I have no idea why I never bought the stuff. God, you would think when I was younger, I wanted to have them in droves after me, but no, I just used stuff like Chanel, etc.

But because I recently turned 60, my husband's nieces and nephews chipped in and sent me a $50 gift certificate for Bath and Beauty Works online.

Well, I got a whole bunch of items in the fragrance line "japanese cherry blossom"

Ladies, you have never smelled so delicious in all your life. It doesn't smell like strong stuff nor does it smell like it has any alcohol in it. I know most fragrances have that phony smell to it. You DO get what you pay for.

I had some of the Japanese Cherry Blossom body lotion in my home. A small sample. I wanted to see Alan's reaction to it when I wore it (before I made the online purchase).

Well, suffice it to say, I knew exactly what I had to get at their online store. The shower gel, the body butter (I have no idea what this is, but it sounded good), some eau de toilette, and some body splash).

Now why did I buy this fragrance?? Well, I happened to put a bit of the Japanese Cherry Blossom lotion in the lower part of my arm, and dangled it in front of Alan's nose. Let's just say that his olfactory sense is working quite nicely, thank you.

I may be 60, BUT I'VE GOT IT GOING ON!!!!

See, I even got to hijack my own thread!!!

Ladies, you have to try this product. You will love how this makes you feel. And we all need to feel pretty even with neuropathy.

Melody

I have said it beforee will say it often,Glen is very wise. But i would only agree, totally if someone who could see could at least,to put out the long white ones...I am glad you think your wife is cute...This should be said more often,
to husbands, boyfriends,girlfriend or just friends...

So Mel I ,Bob i am sure Alan think your cute eybrows or not. Sue