Last week I went with a girlfriend to have our make-up done at a local department store. It was a very nice department store. So nice that I had never even been inside it.
We ate lunch at a chic bistro and walked down to Barney’s for our 1 pm appt. We were seeing Jeff who was a traveling MAC rep. and wizard of all things make-up. She sat down in Jeff’s chair first and I sat down for face preparation work with one of Jeff’s assistant. We were treated like queens and were laughing and joking so much that periodically make-up application ceased to allow us to double over. Jeff finished with my friend’s make-up and she looked glamorous. I sat down in his chair. He took a look straight in my face:
Jeff: *serious inhale gasp* Girl, who does your brows?
me: nobody
Jeff: *hand to heart, stepping back in horror* Can I fix that for you?
me: I’ll take all the help I can get
Jeff: *scrambling for tweezers* I used to shape brows and have in my mind exactly what you need
me: great
Jeff: *still scrambling for tweezers, now frantically* Where are my tweezers?
At this point a full on tweezers hunt in Barney’s was on. Jeff had left his out of his make-up bag. Every other make-up artist in the store was now searching fervently for their tweezers. When this resulted in no tweezers a discussion group ensued about where to go PURCHASE tweezers in the mall. Then Jeff had a light bulb moment:
Jeff: Oh, I forgot! I am in Dallas. My little button is just down the hall!
He raced to the phone and made a call. It was a fashion 911 call to his little button. He returned triumphant in the news. “My little button can fit you in RIGHT NOW, but we have to get moving.” So, Jeff and his assistant, my dear friend and I parade out of Barney’s little button bound. I have to admit that I had no idea what was going on at this point, but it was an adventure and I was obviously in serious need of this attention.
Little button turned out to be a very nice make-up artist at the mall Lancombe store who had worked previously with Jeff. She drew, waxed, plucked and primped the heck out of my brows and when she was done she spun my chair around and huge sigh of relief erupted in the room. I had been saved from my low maintenance ways. It was fixed. The make-over could now continue…
Which it did and when completed I looked super fabulous. Yeah!
One word comes to mind when I think of brow waxing…or any waxing for that matter…OUCH!
I am SOOO not on board with the whole brow thing. Now, I dont like a uni or anything like that, but I like my brows to be substantial just over the eye. I get the stragglers going over the temple, the occassional strays on the lid area, all the ones in between and on top, but I hate the look of tiny brows and using a pencil to shape them back in. I don’t get that!
KEEP BELIEVING
I had a similar situation once. That is exactly why I get them waxed faithfully, which reminds me, they need done.
I always feel so much better after my brows are waxed. I want to see pictures of your makeover!
Oh yay! Jeff sounds like my kinda guy. Well, you know what I mean. He actually sounds exactly NOT like my “kinda” guy, but more like the kind of guy I’d like to spend a day with, putting on make up and looking at shoes. Am I right?
Brows are often overlooked and underrated, but doesn’t it make a HUGE difference? It’s crazy. Grandmaother even has a brow lady she goes to specifically for her brows. She’s known around Sacramento as the “Eyebrow Queen.” Really, she is.
I had mine done on Tuesday and my very good friend and hairstylist Kim, said about the same thing. She will wax them and when she pulls the wax off she always says something like “Oh my goodness, you had a caterpillar growing on your head”
Too funny! I’ve never done anything about my eyebrows. They are pretty sparse and light, but maybe I should?
before and after photos would be just too much to ask, i’m sure …
i was in a salon once where this 14 year old boy was getting his done. at least i think so, i didnt have my glasses on, but they were saying the girls would appreciate it, and he was in the shampoo/brow chair and not the haircut chair, and no hair dryer ensued.
anyway, i’m long overdue but i spend a lot of time with tweezers so i have a decent shape.
tip: dont do your makeup, or just get it done early in the morning along with your haircut, etc and put on your makeup later. your brows can look red and your foundation should cover it.
I need brow intervention every two weeks. It’s crazy. It’s like a crazed Chia Pet above my eyes. And, my poor five year old son has a unibrow thanks to me. One of these days, without my husband knowing, I’m sneaking the kid out for a brow wax.