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"The mall play area is loudest, most chaotic place this side of a Scottish soccer stadium on Free Beer and Crobar Night, and only slightly less dangerous."

I am crying over the beauty of this sentence. You are a wordsmith, and I am jealous.

Ouch! I've always wanted to try waxing, but I guess I'm just used to the plucking. I've been doing it for, well, over a decade now. I'm just a plucky chick!

P.S. That fucking song is going to be in my head until I fall asleep.

P.S.S. Speaking of faces, the Black Keys rocked mine off tonight.

I am also quite Plucky... I'm so plucky, I keep tweezers in my pocket just in case I discover a stray that needs to be yanked.

I've had one "professional" leg-waxing, but it'll be a while before I give in and try that again -- I don't want to hear my "professional" say anything like "Oops, Huh-oh, Does that burn?"

;)

I'll tell you a secret - I can't pluck because it makes me sneeze and cry at the same time. Making an appt. to get waxed is just too much trouble and they don't like me bringing the boys. So I shave. They sell these little tiny razors on long stems that are perfect for the eyebrow. And I use a regular razor for the mustache because it's quick and I'm lazy. Now, I'm fair-skinned so that might make a difference.

My unibrow and mustache never bothered me but apparently they bothered other people. I let a friend pluck my eyebrows when I was in college, so now I have to keep on doing that. And I started using Nair for the mustache after some little kid said, "Look, Mommy, that lady has a mustache!" This is all too much trouble for me.

how bad am i? i've given up on caring about my wayward hairseses... make up kara used to pluck obsessively... but i'm wondering if the pendulum will swing and i'll be just like katherine helmond in 'brazil' when i grow up? teeheeeheeee.

and a mall playground? there is such a thing? you could be lying and i'll never know. after your description, i can assure you that i'll never ever go check out your story. sounds like sheer hell, in more ways than one!

My eyebrows have begun to go gray and have thinned out to the point where I have to crayon on the outer half of them. And they grow in a quasi-Mr. Spock style with some of the hairs growing straight up so I have to trim them back into line as I can't afford to lose more eyebrow.

Makes me want to shave them off and see what I'd get when they grow back in.

Three words: Laser hair removal.

I can't sing its praises loudly enough. Ree-diculously expensive, slightly painful, and worth every penny.

No - women just can't do the Bert. I've debated at what age I can force plucking/waxing on my daughter.

Lord that you mentioned Frida - that just reminded me I need to pluck like hell!

I had my eyebrows waxed just once. Since I also tend to sport a unibrow, they had to wax between my eyebrows. Apparently I have sensitive skin that doesn't take kindly to having hairs ripped out of it and for the next three weeks, I had a huge crop of zits directly over my nose; one for each hair follicle. It was so unattractive - I think I'll stick with the Frida look.

Ginny, I had the same thing happen the one time I had my chin waxed. I still have scars from the zits. Never, ever again. I'll stick with the tweezers in that area.