Now I remember why...

... I started to pay to have my eyebrows waxed.

So it started innocently enough. I was in the bathroom closet looking for ... ummm.... I don't remember.. But while I was there looking for something, I saw the pot of microwave eyebrow, face and lip wax. And the little light bulb goes off (was I looking for light bulbs?) I should do my eyebrows! (Yes, sadly at times I am easily distracted) I will admit that since I'm not working some little personal grooming things only get done when absolutely necessary, unlike before when they got done weekly. Eyebrows are one of those things. I pulled out the wax and looked in the mirror. Yeah... they needed to be done and I could save $8.00 by doing it myself. Not to mention I had the time. So I closed the closet, totally forgetting what I went in there for in the first place and headed for kitchen.

Your first clue that things are not going to end well is when the smoke detector goes off when you heat the wax. I should have stopped then, but no... not me. So I grabbed the wax and came to my desk. Why my desk? The lighting is better here and besides, the bathroom is so small, I have no place to set the wax in the bathroom. So as I sat here stirring the little pot of smoking steaming wax (seems I heated it too much *blushes*) and blew on it to cool, I grew impatient. Well, in my defense, it *looked * cool enough.. I took the little spatula and tried to spread some of the molten lava on my brow.... only to wince in pain and drop the spatula. As it tumbled down my face, hitting my eyelashes, lip mouth and chin, it left a sticky little trail in its path of destruction.

I thought I had gotten all the wax off my eyes lashes... but sadly I was wrong. As I sit here blinking, they're sticking together. But on with the story. So now that I have little patches of wax on my face, I need to peel them off. Ladies you know the drill: deep breath, close your eyes and pull that sucker off. So after doing this, I have three very smooth spots on my face. This isn't right. What stated out as an eyebrow wax turned into a lip, and chin wax too! I apply more wax to the chin but once again I failed to check the temperature. It was still too hot to apply and slid off the little spatula... on to my t shirt and keyboard tray *sigh* My hands are now glued together from drops of wax, the tweezers are a sticky mess BUT!!! I'm getting a baby smooth face! After a half hour of this torture and hell, I go to put the wax away. Opening the closet again, I saw it. The cuticle cream that started all this!!!! THAT is what I was looking for!! I had the wonderful thought to do my nails tonight. Now I'm rethinking the nail thing. If the eyebrows turned out to be such a mess, I can only imagine what will happen when I do my nails. Maybe I'll use the $8.00 I saved on eyebrows to get my nails done!