Eyebrow issues

Seven days.

That’s how long it’s been since I have touched my eyebrows. I must admit that I almost have a panic attack every time I look in the mirror, but I am going to stay strong.  I can wait another three weeks.

Since I was old enough to be teased about my eyebrows, I have tweezed my eyebrows. Every. Single. Day.

Actually, that’s not exactly true. I managed to go “tweeze-free” for 17 days during a service trip to Tanzania (I didn’t want to appear vain people!).

Otherwise, my brows have been tweezed or waxed with borderline OCD regularity.

You see, along with my father’s green eyes and olive skin tone, I also got his grotesquely bushy eyebrows.

The other bad news was that during those early, unfortunate years of self-image obsession I lived with my bachelor father.  So pretty much all of my grooming habits were left up to my discretion and a few magazine articles from Seventeen.

Draw an imaginary line from the nostril to the brow. Start there. 

What kind of advice is that? Do you have any idea how many angles one can make from their nostril to their eyebrows. Not good advice, Seventeen. I needed pictures. I needed tutorials. I needed Youtube.

Sadly, I even used a razor once.  It was a disaster.

Once I learned the beauty of having my eyebrows waxed, the tweezers were only used for those in-between times.

But I know I need to be rehabilitated if I want to have some shape and arch to my eyebrows again.

And according to my artist and friend, Joy Sakalosky (owner of Via Mia Spa in Omaha) I have to wait four weeks before they will be ready to shape and arch.

I am really hoping I can make it another three weeks. If not, do any of you know of a good Eyebrow-Plucker’s Anonymous meetings?

Any of you struggle with this? Or am I the only one?