Sunday, May 3, 2009

The art of eyebrow sculpture


I'm not going to pretend to be a fashion expert, but today I want to share with you my recently discovered talent of eyebrow sculpture. You would be forgiven to think that I have taken to making tiny sculptures of eyebrows, like this one:

But no. Courtesy of Whitney, I had the pleasure of encountering a Nads Facial Wand. Now typically, a masculine manly man like me would not have the opportunity to encounter such a product. Why? Because this is in fact a woman's hair removal product. It is a well known fact that men have an inbuilt phobia for any form of cosmetic product aimed at women. But I'm also no typical man- I am brave enough to experience all that life has to offer and that includes hair removal products.
So Nads and I have had mostly a hate-hate relationship. The history of this is well documented, yet such documentation is strictly withheld from the public domain (although I'm sure it'll find its way out soon). It basically involved a night in Sydney where I completely set my sights on removing my stomach and chest hair (which is possibly upwards of 76% of the entire world's hair content), and the product of choice was Nads. It didn't need heating, which to me at first sounded amazing: no heat AND hair removal? Could one ask for more?
It turns out, the answer was yes, and it was exactly heat that I would have asked for. The thick viscous gel, along with the plastic nub of an applicator caused me intense pain which, to put in perspective, made me look forward to the hair-ripping strip removal to distract from that applicator. It's a long story with many photos in storage documenting every blood-curdling scream of hair-ripping pain and it's not important to go into too much detail. Needless to say, Nads and I were not on speaking terms.

It turns out however, that the face is much less of a push-over when compared to my stomach. The applicator was one which, if it were a person, I would invite over for lunch and treat to a few city outings. The tiny little waxing strips would also be treated to, say, some fruit loaf at a cafe. For those who know me, this kind of treatment is quite difficult to extract from me. But the number one winner out of all of this was my ego. To be frank, I am an eyebrow sculpting genius:

If that's not a fashion success, I don't know what is.

Note: Please contact my agent if you require eyebrow waxing - it is EXPENSIVE if you get me to do it because I'm quite probably the best eyebrown sculpter out there. :)

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