THREADING TROUBLES

No pain, no gain, they say. Becoming beautiful isn't any easy task and any women can guarantee this fact. You know what I mean if you have been through a process called waxing. Well, I usually keep my decibel level to an absolute minimum, usually on silent, there are some who believe in screaming their hearts out to ease the pain. I thought, after ten-fifteen times, the pain ceases to register, but maybe I am wrong...

But threading, my dear mates, is a different ballgame. Ten, fifteen or fifteen hundred times, the pain does not seem to diminish much. So before each time, I need to visit a salon for the holy ritual, I go through much mental preparation...not that it helps much. I still end up shedding tears of agony every time, no matter how much I try not to.

Moreover, threading is an ART. One wrong move and the shape of your eye brow gets, shall we say, F&$K** up for the next twenty days. Let me tell you how - year 2007, my usual salon (of those days) ended up shaping both my eye brows in different directions. My optimism that nobody would notice did not help much. About a week later, sitting in a coffeeshop, the person in front of me suddenly went, "Um, where do you get your eyebrowsdone? "Er,why? "Don'tget it done there again, it's hopelessly out of place." Oh dear!!!

I am always on my eternal search for that perfect salon, which can shape my eyebrows the right way. Hasn't happened yet. Too thick, too thin, too short, too wrong...it's somehow never ok. The greatest debacle of course occured yester day when I paid 90 bucks for my eyebrows. Is it a lot, you ask. Well, I usually pay 30. And all this, in the quest of that perfect pair of eyebrows. Across geographical barriers, my search continues...

And upper lip threading is quite another story. It's not unlikely to hear the screams and see tears fall evertime the threads moves swiftly over the lips. And manipulating the skin and holding it tight doesn't help much...

But I, and many others like me, despite the pain and anguish, continue to do it, month after month. because we are told it makes us prettier and cleaner. And no pain, I suppose, can deter women from their questy for eternal beauty.