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February 21, 2003
Insomnia last night makes for a pissed didofoot
For a while now I have been unhappy about my eyebrows, mainly due to how several of my friends have in recent months expressed in one form or another their intense hatred for the caterpillars quote ruining my face. I look around and see how every woman I know without exception (and even some of the boys) are plucking and shaping away like sheep in shearing season.
Well last night this whole topic was somehow broached over dessert with Em and the Lad. I explained how I feel like a tomboy most of the time, partly due to the fact that I pretty much dress like either a pre-adolescent girl or a teenage boy and don't have a hairstyle - or a hairdryer - and cannot figure out how eyeliner is different from a sharp stick in the eye. But also partly due to my increasing unease with these enormous, unwieldy eyebrows taking up, I am sure, fully half my face.
Em pointed out that Audrey Hepburn of all people had thick eyebrows though, and while I scoffed at the time, I snuck around Google today and looked her up. Sure enough.
Obviously, Audrey shaped hers as well. And maybe I'll still go that route. But in the meantime, I am so pissed off when I think about how long I have wasted feeling ashamed of my own face.
Posted by didofoot at February 21, 2003 03:36 PM
Comments
But precious! You are beautiful. Very Very beautiful.
Posted by: tracy at February 21, 2003 03:57 PM
yes you are pretty!
and for the record, i do NOT and have never shaved my eyebrows. mainstream ideals for beauty are not worth the pain. especially if/since you're already pretty anyways.
i have a birthmark that i used to feel self-conscious about, and my parents said i could have removed once i turned 18...but by the time i turned 18 i decided i didn't mind the birthmark all that much...it makes me ME! so i still have it.
Posted by: jade at February 21, 2003 04:22 PM
tell your quote friends to quote fuck off; they're suffering from sexiness inferiority complex.
Posted by: kt at February 21, 2003 06:18 PM
I agree with all these people. Either the eyebrows stay or I stay.
Posted by: jason at February 21, 2003 07:16 PM
well, which looks stupider? your eyebrows, or a strange and disturbing complete lack of hair in the eyebrow region, compensated for by the drawing of a single thin line where the dear departed eyebrows used to be?
i think i've made my point.
Posted by: dianna at February 22, 2003 06:38 PM
except that you could do what this girl i used to live with did, and pluck out all the hairs on the outside lower part of the eyebrow, leaving straight diagonal lines like cartoon-character mad eyebrows. just think how scary and yet created from paper and ink you could look!
Posted by: dianna at February 22, 2003 06:40 PM
ooh, neat! i think dianna has a winner. AND i could file all my fingernails into points.
booyah, fashion queens.
Posted by: didofoot at February 23, 2003 10:20 AM
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