Friday, August 10, 2007

So much for threading!

So I go to this Indo/Pak beauty parlor once a month to get my eyebrows threaded. I am a regular and have been going there for almost 3 yrs now. I did not take an appointment , so I said that I was fine with anyone doing my eyebrows. A woman probably in her mid forties was scheduled for me and she greeted me with a smile. I thought it done smoothly and quickly as I related her age to her experience. Boy was I wrong or what!
She stared at my eyebrows for a couple of mins. OK...she is making sure she gets the right shape...nice ...nice I thought. She started slowing threading and it took what seemed eternity to get 4 hair from my brows removed. Then she took her tweezers and started pulling the rest of the hair out....OUCH!!!!
I thought she was just tweeking and making the finishing touches...so gritting my teeth I kept quiet. She moved to the other eyebrow and this time no threading at all...direct pulling my hair out.....mummmmiiiiiiieeeeeee!!!! I could not take it any longer...and screamed STOP! ...That must have scared the hell out everybody in the parlor. I asked her why she was pulling the hair out one by one instead of threading . She must have become nervous and called another girl to help with my eyebrows. I apologized to her for screaming out in pain...but I said I am not used to this pulling out each hair thingie. The other girl came and it was done in a jiffy..
I hope she still has her job...she should probably do so facial or something...but definitely not touch anybody's eyebrows ever again!

7 comments:

Hip Grandma said...

I bet this lady was an american.I had a similar experiencewhile in KA last year.The parlour was run by a Pakistani and this lady did not actually pluck out my eyebrows but the process was equally painful and my daughter was awarded a piece of my mind for ever taking me there.They charged a fortune for this disservice.we have young girls barely 18 yrs old doing a fine job in india and these 40+ cases pluck out eyebrows with tweezers.This lady was also apologetic and applied some lotion which eased out the pain somewhat.

Dee said...

haha....so you have been thru something similar...and you know the pain! .

Twisted DNA said...

Haha! Man, that must've hurt! But I can't imagine you waited for 4 hairs to be tweasered out before you screamed! Women do have a higher pain threshold!

Dee said...

you bet! :)...welcome to this blog BTW...
I loved your 'rocking parents' post ..need to show it to my husband..

Rachel said...

hahah! I can't stand the pain while threading my eyebrows..imagine tweezing it...

Dee said...
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Dee said...

@Rachel: exactly...ouch..thinking abt it is painful ;)