Eyebrow Crisis

Back in early December, I was part of a Mary Kay open house day with a booth about TSFL.  While there, the Mary Kay women-and their other booth lady counterparts-took it upon themselves to critique my eyebrows.  They weren't doing it spitefully, just being as honest as they knew how.  I was sitting with a few of them listening to their chatter when suddenly one of the ladies looked at me-mind you, I don't know her at all-and said in a completely disgusted and shocked voice, "She {meaning me} needs an eyebrow intervention!"  What?  Of course at that point I was incredibly self conscious.  I'd never even given my eyebrows a second thought up to that point other than having them waxed & shaped every six weeks or so.  I'd been told up to this point that I had nice eyebrows.  Now I was feeling totally embarrassed!

They sat me down in a chair & went to work.  Talking about me as if I wasn't there, which is quite comical & kinda humbling.  When they were done {not waxing/cutting-just shaping with color to match my darker hair} I looked in the mirror and thought I looked like a vampire or clown or something really extreme.  They all raved about it though & the more I got used to it-and after showing Amber & getting a little positive feedback-I actually liked it.

Enough that I bought an eyebrow pencil in the color she'd used & some brow gel to hold those crazy hairs in place.

Fast forward to the next day & every day since when I've had to do what they did to me by myself.  With no guidance.  It's been a disaster.  Each day is something new.  Some days I had a nice high arch & some days I looked more like Bert from Sesame Street with a straight across unibrow {sans the uni portion}.  Some days too thick, some too thin.  Took the brow scissors to my own brows one day & just started snipping.  That made things better...NOT.  I soon thought I was massacring my brows with the pencil & started using an eye shadow instead.  The problem?  The shadow was a dark gray-not a brown to match my hair, so although the brows were darker & more defined, they still didn't match my head hair color.  Oh no.  So if you noticed a difference in my brows from picture to picture on the blog, no worries.  They're still there.  They are mine-just different every day. 

So now I'm more self conscious than ever & am ultra attuned to other people's brows.  I had never even given them a second thought before & now completely believe eyebrows totally define a person's face.  I'm constantly pining for beautiful and shapely brows like Taylor's, Blakely or Nicki on the Bachelor, and @the818 who I follow on Instagram.  I need a real eyebrow intervention.  And one that really teaches me what looks best for me.  I want a beautiful nice arch, the right length, a good color, the right thickness & width, and something that stands out, but is subtle at the same time.  And, something that doesn't take more than 3 minutes each day.

Is that asking too much??

Until then, I'll just keep trying different things and keeping you guessing.