Yes, the eyebrows went. First the eyelashes, then the eyebrows. Makes no sense to me since I still have the weird growth of hair on my head, chemo-style. But there you go.
The thing about not having eyebrows is that NOW I really look like an alien. Oh yeah.
So I need to make some semblance of eyebrows on my face before I go out in public. Now, there are these things called “eyebrow stencils” that you can pick up at any drugstore, and they looked perfectly reasonable and like they’d work really well. Only, they don’t. Well, they didn’t, for me at least. Using them made me look just really . . . weird. I don’t know if it’s because of the shape of my face or the normal shape of my eyebrows or what. But THOSE are just not MY eyebrows. So I tried some eyebrow pencils and . . . . well, let’s just say Drag Queen. Yes, I was starting to look like a Drag Queen. Not a good look for me. Took off those eyebrows.
The eyebrow stencils came with a kit which included some stuff that looks very much like eyeshadow. Maybe they call it eyebrow shadow; I don’t really remember. So I used that with a small brush and that seemed to do the trick. I used two different eyeliners with my eyes and that worked better than just one eyeliner like I used the other day.
It’s trial and error, this getting ready when you wake up looking like an alien, I’ll tell ya. Also, covering up the zits and all. What an ordeal! PLUS, I had remembered that I had a lighted make-up mirror from Back In The Day. Well, I’m really talking Back In The Day. This thing must be from when I was 17 years old, NO KIDDING!! It was lacking a piece to prop it up so I rigged it with a fork. As soon as I can, I’m going to go out and buy myself a new lighted make-up mirror.
My co-workers — who, believe me, would tell me if I looked like crap — told me that I looked fine, that you couldn’t tell that the eyebrows were fake, and the eyes looked fine. So I got the ultimate OK. I’m just going to have to wake up 15 minutes earlier than I normally do or something each morning just to change from alien to human each day. Sheesh!!
Ah well. Tomorrow is my day to stay home and sleep all day
in my doggie pajamas
looking like a freaky alien.
So there.
My eyebrows are all that’s left (they were pretty bushy to begin with). In fact the makeup artists at the class wanted me to get them waxed which I found terribly funny.
