Men…you may want to step away from the blog. We are going to talk today about two of the most painful, horrifying, demoralizing aspects of the female hygiene process.
Yes, we’re going to talk about eyebrow maintenance and facial hair removal. One of the most heinous and terrifying 20 minutes a woman has to spend.
Ladies, am I right? (said ala Paula Poundstone, circa 1984)
First of all, any of you women who say you have no hair on your upper lip are lucky mutants, or lying fuckers. Stand in whichever line applies. Let’s set up the bathroom.
On the sink vanity: The box of Hair Removal Creme (for the upper lip area), the hot wax (for the brows) , the tweezers, a washcloth, cotton swabs, and tequila.
First, and this is just my process, I have to be clad only in a bra and underwear. The less clothes I have on, the better. I don’t know why, maybe it’s the female version of Adam’s insistence that men should shit naked. Whatever.
Second step…warm the wax, in hot water, in the sink.
Now we will go with step by step instructions. Or in other words, 20 Steps to a Beautiful You.
1. Take a cotton ball, and apply the hair removal creme to the upper lip area, going all the way down to the corners of your lips. Wrinkle nose in disgust at the smell of swamp ass wafting up into your nostrils.
2. Sip tequila. Curse as some of the hair removal creme gets on the edge of your shot glass. Hurl the shot glass at the tub, shattering glass fragments all over the floor.
3. Get applicator ready, and squinting your eyes, mouth agape, apply the hot wax to the (hopefully) proper area under the brow line.
4. Curse wildly at the pain of hot molten wax being applied to such tender skin, as tears course down your face from the pain.
5. Swig from the bottle of tequila, since you have broken your shot glass.
6. Yell at hubs to tell you when 3 minutes is up, so you don’t forget to remove the lip creme.
7. Apply hot wax to the other brow area, curse, and throw the applicator at the mirror, where it sticks and hardens.
8. Wipe the tears from your face, effectively smearing the hair removal creme across your cheeks, thus enabling possible future abnormal hair growth spurts in that area.
9. Gag at the smell of rotten eggs, and go ahead and prepare the strips of paper to remove the eyebrow wax.
10. Curse, because the wax has hardened, and may not all come off.
11. Swig from tequila bottle again, and partially vomit in your mouth because somehow you have some of the lip hair removal creme in your mouth, and realize with some degree of horror that the implications of that are just TOO FUCKING AWFUL to imagine.
12. Yank the first hot wax strip from your eyebrow region. Scream, curse, and fling the hairy slip of paper at the mirror, where it sticks next to the hot wax applicator.
13. Swig tequila. Sway every so slightly.
14. Yank off the second strip, amazed at the lack of pain. Realize lack of pain is because the wax is still on your eyebrow area because it cooled too much. Pick it off with the tweezers.
15. Swig tequila, stagger backwards, and step on the broken shot glass.
16. Swipe off the rest of the lip hair removal creme, and throw the cotton ball in the toilet, where you will forget about it and the smell will funk up the toilet so bad the hubs will ask you later if you ate Indian food for lunch.
17. Throw all the creme, wax, and other paraphenelia away. Pick up the shards of broken glass, leaving a blood trail across the ceramic floor from the wound on your foot.
18. Emerge from the bathroom, dragging your bleeding foot, with cotton stuck to your upper lip, hot wax particles hanging off your right eyebrow, smelling like chemical ass, drunk as hell, clutching the bottle of the tequila, stagger past your hubs, and mumble something about doing it all to be beautiful for him.
19. Hubs asks what the smell is, and then says, “Oh yeah, the 3 minutes are up, babe.”
20. Take pictures for the trial. No (female) jury in the world will convict you.
