Its not always skin deep

I have a horrible horrible mind disturbing head ache today. Its driving me absolutely crazy. Also, over the weekend I did what I like to call "girl maintenance" if your a girl you know what that means, if your a boy you may or may not, ask the girl closest to you.. Anyway, one word eyebrows. Seriously? Come on. I don't pay to get any type of beauty service. I do it all myself, plus I'm afraid of waxing and threading.

I hate to tweeze and since I'm drinking less than I used to it barely gets done. The reason is that I used to have a few drinks before I tweezed to take the edge off (yes if your thinking I'm a huge wimp your right)

Anyway this past weekend during my "girl maintenance" I attempted to tweeze but couldn't take it so I got out the ol trusty depilatory cream. I applied vaseline to the parts of the brow I wanted to keep and the depilatory cream to the parts I wanted gone.

Well I must have left it on too long because I now have a ton of these little red scabs where some of my hair follicles used to be. It specifically says in bold print "
DO NOT EXCEDE 10 MINUTES" I thought I didn't but I guess I was wrong. Now I have a set of red eyebrow shaped scarred skin patches above my normal eyebrows.

Just thought I'd share.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't worry Flutterbot...it'll calm down, but you do have to be careful with specified times on product because if you're fair/sensitive skinned these products are usually irritating. Sometimes I think it's better to have the drink if it will take the edge off for you. I leave my brows pretty much au naturel these days as they're thinning naturally themselves lately and I like my my natural browline.

Sarah said...

Ugh! That sucks.

I'm sure it will get better rather quickly - the skin on our face reinvents itself quicker than other places.

I'm a tweezer - I do it almost daily...that way, I only have to do one or two each morning. It doesn't build up to the point that it takes me forever and hurts! I can handle a few little devils each day!

Jen said...

A little cortisone cream may help with the redness and any swelling on your eyebrows! You poor thing!

Depilatory creams always left me with a rash, and I'm afraid of waxing. I once, at the urging of a friend, tried waxing my own legs. I now have scars on the left one from my attempt! I'm starting to see tiny hairs around my upper lip, and I'm dreading having to take care of them.