but for beauty's sake

imagine lying back on a chair like the one in your dentist's clinic. the delicate skin on your eyelid is pulled down and stretched. another point on the forehead above the eyebrow is pulled the opposite way so that the area of epidermis (*= skin) is taut. now, a sliver of harsh thread is pulled across the eyebrow, ripping the hair from its roots!

ouch! 

did that sound like a torture scene from a psycho thriller? it was actually just a very dramatic and over exaggerated description of what happens when i go for threading to shape my eyebrows. and no, it is not all as bad as i describe - and it leaves me with nice, arched eyebrows that highlights my eyes (a very rational person once pointed my eyes are quite small, so it doesn't matter - i refused to heed the observation).

but back on track, i often wonder over just how much more willing people have become to undergo procedures that are not exactly a song by the beach - to enhance/alter their looks just that much more. and they are willing to put up regimens worse than those even within the israeli army.

i remember an episode from a make-over series. there was a lady with bandages on her face after major surgery, simultaneously put on a cabbages-and-water diet to lose weight, and kept away in some isolated appartment. day-in-day-out for about six week. 

at the end of it all, she was extremely happy with her new found beauty, and made the whole process seem matter-of-fact - and something we all should be doing - just like getting a haircut. 

i prefer threading.