I should have stayed in bed this morning! Not only is the day dragging on and on and on because I really can't wait to finish work and get on the road, but some things are just going dreadfully wrong today.

I kicked my waxing kit to the curb, literally, it was garbage day.

See... my first attempt wasn't that bad so I've given up the tweezers and I've been getting pretty good with the wax. But today... the wax tried to warn me, it leaked all out of the container and into the box covering everything with a thick sticky coating, including a section of all the fabric strips you use to rip the hair out of your pores. Yet I attempted to do the deed anyway, after scraping off some of the congealed corn syrupy mess. Why? Why did I do it?

Due to the sticky tools things were a bit more awkward, but did I stop? Noooo. I just figured if I missed some I'd get them later one by one the old fashioned agonizing way with tweezers, but at least I could get rid of most of the unrulyness first and save myself some time, and I was right.

I'm missing an eyebrow.

Well, most of it anyway. There is currently one tiiiny little box section that remains, just above the inside of my eye, just enough that if I push my bangs over to the side it looks like I have 2 eyebrows but a slight breeze uncovers the hideous truth. There's no way I'll be able to hide it when I'm swimming in the lake this weekend.

I look ridiculous.

So I bought myself a new bathing suit, it's nice and low cut so it should divert all attention away from my eyebrowless face. So there wax. Ha!

There’s not a lot I hate more than having to grab hold of unruly hair with some cold metal pincers and ripping it out of that tender skin over my eyes, only to have to yank it out again a few days later. Sure, I could refuse to pluck, I just can’t get used to the idea of having eyebrows that resemble Eugene Levy’s or Bert from Sesame Street.

Yes ‘pluck’ btw. I have a friend who gets all ruffled up at the term - “You PLUCK a chicken, you tweeze eyebrows.” Feels like plucking to me.

Anyway, as I said I hate having to do it, so of course, I’m always looking for shortcuts. You can’t shave them into submission unless you want a bunch of ugly bumpy and horribly painful ingrown hairs on your face in a few days. I’ve had them waxed at a salon before, but I didn’t have time to go this weekend so I just picked up a warm wax kit instead.

Have you ever seen how quick those ladies are with their wax and strips? Beautiful shaped eyebrows in under 5 minutes! They make it look soooo easy!

It’s not quite that easy.

On the bright side I do have some time before I have to take the tweezers to them again, and I’m sure that by the time they fill out to a normal size the rocket shaped patch of skin I’m missing between my eyes will have healed too.