101. Hanging by a Thread

12th April 2014, Guys and Dolls Parlour, Brick Lane, London

As stated before, I have dreamed about well defined, proper eyebrows since other little girls were dreaming about Malibu Barbie Beach Houses.

Sadly my eyebrows are blonde, skinny and impossible to work with. No wax, tweezers or tint will ever give me those amazing Brooke Shields eyebrows that I've envied ever since that first time my sister let me watch The Blue Lagoon even though I was technically not allowed. 

 

Do you know what is more unfair than anything? Back in high school, when the hottest trend were these over plucked, pencilled-in black straight lines at the bottom of your forehead, I stayed well clear of it. I wore the Buffalo boots, the hair mascara, the t-shirts with highly inappropriate prints, but even at the age of 14 I would not mess about with my dreams of gorgeous eyebrows.  

 

When a new stylist joined the crew at my second home of Guys and Dolls Parlour and receiving the greatest of reviews, I could not wait to see if she could work some magic on my limitations in the world of facial hair. 

 

After convincing me that a dark brown tint might actually stick to my evidently quite slippery eye brows for longer than the usual two days, she brings out the threads. Truth be told, I have always considered this whole eyebrow threading thing to be one of those nonsense beauty mumbo jumbo treatments that pops up every now and then and stays on trend for a year or so before they are forever forgotten. I was about to be proved wrong.

 

The lovely lady at Guys and Dolls, who from now on will be the only person touching my brows, gave me some interesting facts on the concept of threading. Apparently, it's an old Persian tradition and one the key benefits of removing hair through threading, apart from it growing back slower, is that it doesn't wear down your facial muscles the same way waxing or plucking does. With less wrinkles as a result! And come to think of it, every Persian woman I've ever come across in my life always have great smooth skin and perfect eyebrows. So clearly, they're on to something.

 

I'm not going to lie - it wasn't pleasant. Compared to a Brazilian Wax though it was child's play. So I will write it off as not too bad.

 

And the result - I absolutely adore my new eyebrows. They're freaking fabulous. I am officially never letting anyone near me with a pair of tweezers ever again!

 

Finally I have something resembling facial definition!



Well worth the life long wait!