Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Routine Maintenance

Even though you can't drink the water and there are cows everywhere and you have to do your laundry on a rock, you can't just let yourself go.  But it sure is hard to find a place to get your eyebrows done here.  It's easy to pantomime food and find a restaurant, but acting out "eyebrow waxing" to people on the street requires some serious dramatic talent.  

Eventually I was directed here: "ONLY LADIES & CHILDRENS."  Works for me.  

I asked them if they did eyebrows, and gestured to my forehead.  They nodded yes and asked if I wanted my "face" done too, and gestured to their cheeks.  Ouch.  

So I would highly recommend threading.  I've had it done in the US, and I find that there's a lot less screaming and weeping involved, compared to waxing.  I don't exactly understand the physics behind a twisted thread yanking hairs out, but I did find a video about threading on YouTube and successfully removed a hair on my leg with a piece of string.  

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