WOMEN, BEAUTY & EYEBROW THREADING

 Beautiful eyebrows used to be a simple matter.  Young women plucked their bushy eyebrows, and older women penciled in their thinning/grey eyebrows.  But now, this is the decade of eyebrow threading.

Walk through any metro mall, and you will see at least one kiosk where you can have your eyebrows threaded.  This, by the way, is an ancient practice originating in Asia centuries ago. In the past few years, women  from India have been brought to the US by some enterprising businessmen in their country to perform this procedure.   A cotton thread is used to twist the eyebrow hairs, removing the strays and shaping the brows.  Yikes!  It hurts.  But once a person  has their eyebrows threaded, they are supposedly so hooked on the way they look now that they keep going back for more every five or six weeks.  It only costs about $15, so I guess if you are willing to spend the time and around $150 a year, it may be worth it, if it makes you feel better about yourself.

If you haven’t seen anyone getting eyebrows threaded, you probably imagine that the clients would be young, good looking women who want to look even more beautiful.  Not true.  I’m always amazed at the ordinary women of all ages, sizes, shapes, and skin color enduring this painful process. I’m guessing that  if you don’t like your looks very much, you think this will help.   And will females suddenly find they’re attracting more male attention after they’ve shaped up their eyebrows?  If not, you can always add eye extensions, but that gets a lot more pricey—around $40 to $80 every three weeks or so.  Wow, now we’re getting in to expensive territory—a minimum of $700 a year.

It seems to me that the whole fad is placing entirely too much emphasis on a woman’s appearance, and means that if you want to keep up with the competition out there, it’s going to cost you plenty.  Obviously ,at my age,  I will never spend the time and money on any of these  procedures.  And I’d hate to think a younger woman couldn’t find a boyfriend or get a good job unless she threaded her eyebrows.