Yesterday morning, Hite called on my cell phone to see if we wanted him to bring us some Krispy Kreme donuts before we left Dallas. I kind of feel like he meant it as a rhetorical question because he’s known Gulley and me for almost twenty years and surely he must have known the answer would be YES PLEASE.
And as if Krispy Kreme delivery wasn’t enough, he also brought hats for everyone.
Even Ella.
Although she turned down the donuts in favor of one of Will’s matchbox cars, which AJ discovered later in the day when bits of Hot Wheels began to filter out of Ella’s mouth and other places we won’t discuss.
We ate our donuts, said our goodbyes and got back on the road for the second part of our Texas tour.
On the way to Waco, we called Gulley’s dad and asked him where we should stop for lunch. After he made fun of me for being a socialite due to my disdain for public transportation, he suggested we go to George’s Bar. It was a brilliant suggestion, so we played “George’s Bar” by Pat Green on the iPod for the kids (really it was totally for our own benefit) and headed that way.
Will didn’t make it into the picture because he was still back at the car searching for his Scooby Doo croc and the rest of us were broiling in the heat. We desperately needed to get in the air-conditioning and eat something fried.
After lunch, we made our big stop of the day, the Mayborn Museum on the Baylor campus. I have to say that it was one of the best children’s museums I’ve ever been to and was definitely better than sweating at the zoo looking at a bunch of lame birds and a gorilla who looks like he’s totally over the whole being in captivity thing.
Although I will admit that children’s museums can stress me out a little bit because some of the rooms involve science and exhibits like how a liquid turns into a gas and it’s only a matter of time before Caroline will ask a question and my shocking lack of anything and everything scientific will be put on display for a bunch of other moms to hear.
“A liquid becomes a gas by a process I like to call MAGIC.”
Fortunately, there were other things that required little to no working knowledge of anything useful.
My own little Mona Lisa.
Here they are in a Native American habitat formerly known as a tee-pee.
This was just like a real school bus but without the ripped green vinyl seats that stick to your legs and a surly, chain-smoking bus driver. Actually, the driver was a bit surly but he gave up smoking for his 3rd birthday.
Look! It’s what the ancient bloggers, also known as “writers”, used to use back in prehistoric times.
On our way out of the museum, we let the kids stop in the gift shop to pick one small souvenir each. Jackson and Caroline chose a small bag full of polished rocks and quartz. Will chose some kind of clear, plastic ball filled with bugs. When Gulley paid for it and handed it to him, he hugged her and exclaimed, “Thank you for buying this for me Mom! It’s a blessing to my heart.” I believe he absorbed some Baptist by osmosis while on the Baylor campus.
Finally, we got in the car and drove to the last stop of our trip, Bryan/College Station. The motherland.
Once the car was unloaded (again) and we settled in, there were three moments that made me so happy.
The first was this darling little ladybug cupcake cake that Honey (Gulley’s mama) had bought so we could have a little early birthday celebration for Gulley.
The second was when Nena came in and announced that she’d been in a terrible mood, but got a new permanent this afternoon and it changed her whole disposition. I’m sad to report that I have no pictures of Nena and her new permanent.
The third was when Gulley showed me this incredible magnifying mirror that belongs to Honey. She’d told me about it after her last trip because she said she couldn’t quit looking at her pores in horror and was certain it caused her to stumble in the way of over-tweezing her eyebrows.
Listen. I thought she was exaggerating, but once she showed me that mirror I was like the reincarnation of Narcissus, except instead of falling in love with my own beauty I was completely mesmerized by the fact that I not only have a unibrow, but some stray eyebrows growing down the side of my face. I can’t even discuss the fine lines around my eyes, it’s too painful.
So here’s my scientific fact for the day; It is never a good idea to look at yourself in a mirror that magnifies your face to 15 times its normal size.
Also, Gulley and I had a lengthy discussion (seriously, I’m embarrassed to even admit how long we passed that mirror back and forth and discussed it) about how we both have one really good eyebrow and one that is always a little unruly no matter how much we try to pluck and define. Our hypothesis is that all women have this eyebrow struggle.
Is it universal or is it just us? Do you have one good brow or are they equally appealing? Or perhaps you have a hobby that doesn’t involve staring at yourself in the mirror and have never really noticed one way or the other.
Whatever the case may be, we need to know. The science depends on it.
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Yes…I have one good and one bad eyebrow. But I try not to dwell on it.
I prefer to keep my eyebrow struggles to myself (YES,YES,YES WHY WON’T THE OTHER ONE BEHAVE?).
What is it with black labs? They are like goats and will eat anything!
i have one eyebrow that is 1/2 and inch higher than the other and they each have different arches and growth pattern….it makes it impossible to get them even and forces me to pay to have them waxed…
oh my goodness, yes! and I thought I was the only one with mismatched brows… good to know it’s not just me.
It’s probably a good thing I don’t have a magnifying mirror…
Yes, I have one good eyebrow and one that is not so good. One is arched perfectly and the other…not so much. And I think it’s a little higher than the good one, too. Glad I’m not the only one.
Two words for a magnifying mirror such as that: GOAT CHIN. Even the fairest of blonde maidens such as myself have this hair line on the jaw and chin. Some post 80′s trailer trashers act like it’s not there and let it grow ramped! Other’s get it waxed , tweeze or a combination of. But it’s there….it’s ugly …and when it’s magnified 15 times it’s OBSESSIVE!
oh my gosh, i don’t feel so isolated or weird now. i totally have different eyebrows and i think one is also higher. the weird one is also sparse on hair in one area. i prefer not to dwell on the eyebrows when looking in the mirror and if i looked at a mirrow that magnified that much i might just cry. it’s sad, but everyone has made me feel so much better. gotta go sneak a peak at my defective brows now while telling myself it’s okay to be different!!
After spending HOURS (not in one sitting)tweezing the stray eyebrows off my chin, I’m grateful for the unruly eyebrow that screws up my hope for facial symetry. Guess it could be worse … I could be a brunette.
YES! YES! My right eyebrow just won’t thicken up through the middle. It’s so fustrating.
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Yep…mismatched eyebrows here! Must be a universal truth!
eyebrows? I haven’t had good eyebrows since that time in college I over plucked? Maybe that’s that reason I’m never without bangs as camouflage.
Yes, only one good eyebrow!! Glad to know it’s not just me…
Totally have the eyebrow dilemma. I always have a bald spot on one that never completely grows in. Wasn’t that a fashion statement in the 90′s? Shaving part of an eyebrow? I’ll have to look into this….
Oh yes, only one good eyebrow. The other one sticks straight up on the inside corner like it was meant for Frankenstein’s wife instead of non-descript little me.
As to having to come up with Science explanations, read down a few of my blog posts and welcome to an unscientific mommy’s he..heck. he he
Ahhh, the cursed magnifying mirror! Almost everyone has different eyebrows– I don’t know if it comes from the fact that there is a vertical separation of your face right down the middle- which if you cover one half at a time you will discover your male half and your female half. True story, learned it in beauty school. (And they would never teach us useless crap that isn’t true!) Now you have some “scientific” back up!
After a 33 year struggle with my monobrow, I had the middle lasered and it has set me free!! I could care less about the rest of it – I even went camping without tweezers! Talk about a revelation.
Yes! I do have one sorry-no-good eyebrow!! One will do exactly like it’s supposed to and makes a perfect arch above my pupil. The other one, though, no matter how much effort the nice lady puts in to it, looks like I broke out the Nads and tried to do it myself at home! (Not that I’ve ever done that…okay so I did once…or twice.
Yes, one good eyebrow the other one stops short on the end. The sad thing is I didn’t even realize it until an “aesthetician” pointed it out to me at my last waxing – which, for some reason over 50% of the time I end up with an abrasion or some sort of surface burn after getting an eyebrow wax. Now THERE’S a topic! :0 Have a great day! The trip sounds like a total hoot! And Nena! I so wish I could meet that woman!
“Absorbed some Baptist by osmosis while on the Baylor campus”… truly may be my all time favorite line of yours. Seriously. Too funny.
Oh, I wish I had a Gulley… you two always have the best fun together:-)
Yes, one good and one bad. But the worst thing is that, now that I wear bifocals (of course the no-line kind), I can’t see without them to pluck. But I can’t get to the brows WITH them on. I do believe I NEED that magnifying mirror!
Both of my eyebrows are looking shabby. I think I need to see a salon therapist.
My eyebrows have never been plucked, waxed or touched until this week when I discovered Arbonne eyebrow wax. I purchased some after a make-over party I went to and was so happy that it made a neat difference in my eyebrows. They look fuller. I enjoyed this post. Caroline is a cutie patootie.
OH Lord…..I have one eyebrow that has that “old man” long hair that grows overnight and sticks straight out.
Let’s not even start to discuss hairs growing in other facial areas that should be limited to the male gene pool. thankyouverymuch.
So glad to know that I’m not the only one with dealing mismatched eyebrows.
Oh the eyebrows. Audible sigh. And sadly, plucking is simply not enough for me. I have to wax mine, myself. And more sadly, there have been two incidents over the last ten years which involved hot wax and the word “disaster.”
Several things:
1. I, too, heart the Mayborn Museum in a big way. We took the boys earlier this year, and had the best time
2. I’m a little concerned that the best three “moments” you could find to say about God’s country (aka B/CS)involved cupcakes, eyebrows and a permanent (although Nena is funny). Where’s the love for the sights as you drove in? After spending several glorious years there, meeting my husband, and visiting regularly (husband is from there), I can find oh so many things to still love and go way out of my way to enjoy.
And, 3. Why am I the only one concerned about this and not totally focused on my brows; albeit a little bit off and in need of plucking?
Thank you. Have a lovely day.
Facial hair on women is a horrible, horrible thing. All I can say is, “Thanks Eve, thanks a whole bunch.”
I would like to apply for membership to the “One Good Eyebrow” Club.
Why is this so??? Is this one of God’s ways of keeping us humble?
Excellent report from the Texas Correspondant and road crew.
First, I’m not a plucker. I really hate to pluck, but I do know someone who plucks her eyebrows every. single. day. No kidding. I’ve used the little pen lady razor thing that they once advertised everywhere. It has this little end thing on it that says “long” or “short.” Since the eyebrows can go a little long, I thought “short” would buy me some extra time. Extra time, it did. Hubs got home (he doesn’t generally notice beauty efforts) and said, “What the heck did you do to your eyebrows.” Ladies, it wasn’t in an impressed tone. They look all shaved off, as opposed to trimmed. It was awful!
I always think of the Gilmore Girls episode where they were at Chilton and Madeline and Louise were talking about beauty. I think that it was Maddie who said that she had overplucked her eyebrows and that she “looked surprised for a month.” No thank you!
Oh yes, the unruly eyebrow.
I used to pluck the GRAY eyebrows, until I realized I wouldn’t have any left if that business kept up.
Did I mention I’m 24?
I’ve always had one good one and one blah one. But my senior year in h.s. I had a minor skiing accident wherein I busted my head right above my blah brow. The ski slope quack-shack sent me to the real doctors in Denver since it was on my face and I got a “free” brow lift.
Now, the tables are turned and my formaly blah brow has become the good one. And the good one? Yep. It’s blah.
Both brows are bad and always unruly. I have an appt. to have the waxed today. By tomorrow, they’ll be bad again…promise.
Glad you enjoyed the Mayborn Museum on campus. I’ve spent many a day there w/ my children and w/ my pre-k class.
Did you get a Big O? ; ) If not, make sure P brings you back to George’s sometime so you can experience the Big O. It lives up to it’s name.
Know the trip is complete now that you had Krispy Kreme!
Awesome!
How could you entice me with the casual mention of Nena and not write more in depth or have a pic to share?? I have to tell you that my 84 year-old mom lives by the fluctuations of bowel adventures and good/bad perms.
My eyebrows are pretty good, but I did find out at my eyeglass fitting that my ears are not level.
Everything on my left side is superior to my right. Better eyebrow, better eyesight, better hairline, cuter toes, bigger bra-filler, longer leg, and I’m left-handed.
Go ahead and say it. Freak show.
My eyebrows are INSANE.
The beginning of my eyebrows are brown, but taper off to blonde=cannot see them. So I look like I have half brows. Lovely.
Not only are my eyebrows mismatched and my ears at different levels, but now, as I approach 50 (ugh), my eyelashes are thinning out. My lips are thinning out. My nose is getting bigger, and my earlobes are drooping. Keep that mirror away from me, because it’s painful enough looking in a regular one.
It must be universal because my left eyebrow always has like a little bare place in the middle. It’s like when Moses parted the Red Sea or something. Drives me bonkers!
It is true. My right eyebrow is comepletely insane. Often times, the end of it looks like a firework no matter how much a tweeze and coax.
It really is a burden I must learn to deal with.
Same here, one good and one bad eyebrow.
Um BOTH eyebrows have their own deficiencies…especially after the thyroid problem and losing some of the much needed hairs! is that tmi?????
LOVED the got some Baptist by osmosis comment…that was hilarious! I have loved your TX tour too!!
Suzanne
I don’t have one good eyebrow; I have two thick, bushy eyebrows, that I tweeze constantly so that they don’t become a unibrow like they were for the first couple decades of my life.
However, my husband and son both have one good eyebrow and one wonky one that, try as I might, I cannot make look symmetrical with the other. Oh well, as least they’re boys!
A wise woman once told me the truth about eyebrows:
“Honey,” she said, “They’re not twins, they’re sisters.”
Six words that changed my eyebrow outlook forever.
I have a major unibrow. You should see my 2 day old picture. It’s shocking.
I too must confess to UBS (unmatched brow syndrome) *sigh*. But I wear my hair in long side-swept bangs to cover the right one…so only my hairstylist and aesthetician know the truth!!!
Now, my bigger problems are the un-even D twins! Debbie and Diane have never been evenly matched!!! Hrumph!!! That presents a much more difficult situation to hide.
Suppose I could let my chin-hair grow into a ZZ-Top type of beard…
I have one good eyebrow (that will even do the perfect Scarlett O’Hara arch) and a rebellious one. I figured it’s a symbol of my God given personality. However, it’s nothing I can’t fix with my BeneFit Eyebrow Duo Kit (the eyebrows, not personality).
As for the eyebrows growing on the side of my face, I get those waxed. After 27 years, I’m no longer afraid and CONVINCED that it doesn’t make the hair grow thicker or longer. I read somewhere that J.Lo does it too (and probably every other Latina, Greek, Italian and Eastern European celebrity out there). If I could only contact Nikki from last season’s of The Bachelor (Jason) I’d tell her all about it. And then maybe she’ll finally get a man to stick around.
Oh, girl, I sooooo agree! I think all women deal with the eyebrow issue, haha!!!
Yes, one eyebrow has more issues than the other. Amazing what you can learn on a blog!
Don’t even get me started about unruly eyebrows. They’re not horrible or unified, but definitely have a mind of their own. Once I was waiting in the lobby of my hair salon, and a woman came out, looked around, zeroed in on me, and asked if I was the woman waiting for the eyebrow wax.
Apparently I was the obvious choice.
That was a proud moment.
“Actually, the driver was a bit surly but he gave up smoking for his 3rd birthday.”
I cannot tell you how hard I laughed at this. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again….I LOVE Will stories. I don’t know why he cracks me up so much, but I’ve been intrigued since you compared him to Simon Cowell.
I do believe both my eyebrows are equally horrible but I’ll need a magnifying mirror to make a certain determination.
I believe I only saw one comment about Big O’s – did yall drink one? I can appreciate the introduction of some Pat to the little ones at a young age. And esp his “older” stuff!! Nice choice.
Pure hilarity.
I am also a sufferer of the one good one bad brow phenomenon. It’s a sickness to get me in front of the mirror with tweezers though, I always overcompensate (read: overpluck) the bad brow to try to make it match, then I have to pluck the good one, and I end up with 3 little hairs. I have learned to leave certain things to the professionals to deal with.
Caroline is so adorable! I love the typewriter photo, she’s a little ham!
I also want a Gulley. I used to have one in California but I haven’t been able to replace her since I moved to Boston almost 9 years ago.
On another note, I am going to be in Houston and Austin in October, I want to take a mini detour to San Antonio (Have to see the Alamo!
Have a great day!
I don’t know about the eyebrow thing, I honestly don’t think about mine that much…maybe I should get one of those magnifying mirrors so I can check…
My favorite line is “Native American habitat, formerly known as a tee-pee” haha! love it! and of course your blog made me laugh today. Thanks!
Two things:
I received a Big Eyes 5x Flexible Vanity Magnifying Mirror for Christmas. When I looked in it I was SO embarrassed that I’d been walking around with all that hair on my face! What other body changes do I have to look forward to that mother never told me?
And…Where did Honey find the ladybug cupcake?
Left eyebrow: my rebel without a cause.
Yep. I have one eyebrow that’s better than the other. And I also cannot handle magnifying mirrors.
Hello, my name is Mary, and I’m an over-tweezer.
I have those same A&M tumblers! I love ‘em!!
I totally have a good and an unruly eyebrow! I think it’s like a law of science..er…beauty. I also have one eye that’s smaller than the other. Whenever anyone takes a picture of me I always try to have my larger, “good” eye facing the camera. Unfortunately, this eye has the unruly eyebrow! Life is truly unfair.
I don’t know about one eyebrow being superior to the other, but I know my cheapness and refusal to let someone else jack my eyebrows up when I can do it myself for (almost) free, creates many a sad sad moment… I wax and tweeze them myself and every time I do, I risk disastrophy of the highest order. I just know that if I’m going to be mad at anyone, I’d rather it be me.
Great posts on your trip! My ‘eye-brow lady’ told me that they are different because I sleep on one. The unruly one is the one I don’t sleep on! It just gets crazy at night while I’m sleeping. I laughed out loud when you talked about the hair growing down your face! TOO FUNNY… and unfortunately – I know that problem too well!
I love Geroge’s!
I wish you’d take the kids to Austin so they could see what a truly wonderful city is. College Station is lacking…
Hook ‘em!
Couldn’t we just talk about the deliciousness of those cupcakes instead of irregular (guilty as charged) eyebrows?
Maybe you should revisit the Baylor campus and pray for healing and symmetry.
Okay- I’m in love with Nena- if Gulley ever decides to sell her in a garage sale, let me know.
Totally with you on this one!
My mom has a mirror like Honey’s.
And, yes, I have an eyebrow I prefer over the other. One arches beautifully naturally & the other could care less.
My eyebrows are equally unruly. And I love my 10x magnifying pocket mirror. It’s the only way they stay in shape.
I agree with your eyebrow theory! I have the same issue with my brows!
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I absolutely have the same problem with my eyebrows and I can’t tell you how encouraging it is to know others have the same issue.
Awesome to see some more Baylor love on your blog. Isn’t the Da Vinci exhibit fun?
Aren’t those mirrors amazing? I’ve lost hours in one myself. Mainly because I had no idea I could see my pores as large as the top of a pin before. It should be an exhibit at a museum!
I too have one ruly and one unruly. Which is the reason for big sunglasses!
I swear my left eyebrow has a cowlick right in the middle.
I have a heck of a time with my eyebrows! First, one is higher than the other and there’s nothing I can do to fix that. It’s just the way God made me. I have to buy sunglasses that are big enough to cover both or otherwise it just calls attention to the fact that they’re uneven! My other issue is my eyebrows are strawberry blond and it’s almost impossible to see all the little strays. Very frustrating.
The Good Eyebrow and The Prodigal. Apparently, it is indeed a universal problem. Perhaps that Bad Brow should visit Baylor and absorb some Baptist by osmosis? It might help.
My eyebrows are blonde. Like BLONDE. And you can’t see them. Yes, I look weird. So I dyed them with Just For Men mustache and beard dye (because it comes with a little brush that makes dying small places easier). Except not only are they blonde, the are really scarce. So you still couldn’t really see them.
So to answer your question, I don’t have one random eyebrow. I have 2. I’m kinda eyebrow bald.
Nice.
I totally have a stray unruly eyebrow that no matter the grooming is always a little “off”! I would spend hours with a mirror/magnifier like that!
I used to have good eyebrows, but with the onset of menopause they have thinned out and have become unruly, I’m not sure what to do with them at this stage I keep joking with a friend of mine about becoming one of those women with the “black magic marker” eyebrows. I don’t even want to look in one of those mirrors!
Oh yes, the eyebrows and the magnifying mirror. I freak my husband out on a regular basis by staring at my pores and plucking plucking PLUCKING away at random hairs. Good to know I’m not the only one suffering from a dilemma I like to call “eyebrow sideburns.”
I´ve ever commented, but this was hilarious! My MIL has not one, but TWO of those magnifying mirrors hanging on her barthroom walls, and I can´t decide if they are horrible or amazing! My left eyebrow has nice shape, but my right one has a mind of its own!
not lying… just had a fight with my right eyebrow last night. it just won’t get along nicely like the left one does. i stopped short of giving it the line that my mom gave to me and my siblings: “If Donny and Marie can get along so nicely, why can’t you?!?!?!”
Hope you enjoyed your time here in Waco. My boys’ Grandmother lives by George’s.
Oh my, yes. I have one eyebrow that always lives in the shadow of its perfectly-shaped and almost maintenance-free sibling. It’s not just you.
I’m concerned…
Did you not stop for kolaches in West, Texas? It’s the whole Czech village, exit 353, I think. (Not that we’ve threatened our houseguests with no-entry if they come empty-handed or anything…)
Some times we think about driving up there from the Austin area for a dozen of their mixed berry. mmmmmmm…
My eyebrows are usually pretty good… except that right now they’re falling out for no good reason, along with the rest of my hair thinning out. Something tells me it’s time to head to the doctor…
What’s a permanant?
The only thing I can tell you about eyebrows is when you hit 50 and need to wear reading glasses, it is really hard to pluck your eyebrows wearing glasses, so those magnifying glass mirrors might just come in handy.
I had no idea eyebrow deficiencies would be so universal?
I bet if *someone* in Waco had known you wanted to stop at the museum, *someone* could have gotten 5 guests in free with her membership. Just sayin’.
Looks like y’all had a great time!! There’s nothing quite as…adventuresome…as a road trip with 3 kiddos.
mismatched eyebrows…my mom, me, my daughter! Just think of it as the new normal.
I have one good and one bad and they seem unevenly shapened to me but when I try to tell whoever is waxing them that, I am somehow always wrong. But I’m the one who stares at them all the time, wouldn’t I know?
1. Yes, one good eyebrow and one evil eyebrow.
2. Those mirrors are evil.
My left eyebrow is so cooperative. The right one, though, is crazed. I thought it was just me, so good to know I’m not alone.
Wait until you hit 57 (my birthday was two days ago). Those mirrors will take on more evil than you can imagine as you still enjoy your youth!
Ugh and OMG! I have one wonky eyebrow AND a goat chin. Now where are my tweezers…..
My eyebrows are a hot mess. I stopped waxing them five years ago so they could fill in and they look pretty much the same-they just don’t grow anymore. I am 27 and my eyebrow future is bleak.
Love reading your blog.
You make me laugh!
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Oh my gosh! I have that magnifying glass. It wigs me out how many hairs I find that you didn’t even know were on my face. And the lines…. Am I supposed to have this many at 38?
Love the updates!
Yep, 1 bad eyebrow, one foot a bit longer then the other, one boob a little bigger, one ear a little higher & sticks out more. We are all lopsided in some way, no one is “perfect.” Thank God cuz wouldn’t you hate them?
Add me into the mismatched eyebrow club.
And Hope Noelle? The gray eyebrow thing? AHHH! I’m 23 and had to quit pulling out grey hairs because I was getting bald spots. Now you’re telling me that my eyebrows are going to follow suit? I need to lay down.
yep. ol’ lefty is my fave cause she grows less hairs. but that dern right eyebrow is a beast. i totally looked like brooke shields when i was in 8th grade. but only in the eyebrow department unfortunately.
Yes! My right eyebrow is far more cooperative than the left. Is there a club to join or something?
I was just this morning lamenting the goofiness of my right eyebrow, & thinking of the disservice I had done myself with that flip-over magnifying mirror I bought a couple of months ago when I rearranged my “vanity” set-up. Wish I could get the hair on my head to grow as black as the ones appearing on my chin! OY.
I thought it was just me too! My left eyebrow has always been rebellious to my tweezing efforts.
right now i’m sporting one brow. i wouldn’t call it good, and as soon as i have a free minute, i’m going to divide it into two mediocre brows.
You are not alone in your eyebrow struggles. Honest to pete, I have one eyebrow that would be about an inch “tall” unless I pluck religiously. One is always a little outta control, but I make semi-regular visits to the overpriced waxers Katie and/or Danielle, and they fix me up. I pluck in between visits and usually mess it up again, thus starting the cycle all over again.
Yes, I have one good and one unruly eyebrow. I also hate plucking and do not do it well. I used to get them waxed but with 3 little boys I don’t have to time to do that anymore. I bought an eybrow trimmer/shaper thing at Sephora and lets just say that when it was all said and done I looked like Vanilla Ice.
Definitely have the one unruly eyebrow problem; fortunately I have blond brows so it’s not quite as noticeable as if they were darker. And sadly I am not as sophisticated as Honey’s fancy mirror – I haul my 30 year old (currently big pregnant) self up onto the bathroom counter so as to sit as close as humanly possible to the mirror for eyebrow examinations.
isnt the mayborn museum awesome (I have a museum studies degree from there)…too bad TAMU doesnt have a museum or even an art department;;;; i’m sorry i couldnt resist (I actually used to work at Stark in the MSC at TAMU..it really is a great gallery but the largest collection i “worked on” while there was in the vet school and i actually cataloged a piece of art titled “picture of a cow looking at a cow”;;; the jokes related to both schools are endless;
I do have one good eyebrow and one that never cooperates. I had thought it was hereditary because my mom has the same one good eyebrow.
I also have one good side to my hair. The other side never does what I want.
My eyebrows keep me in a constant state of frustration. My facial hair, in general, is a never ending battle. Sigh…
Though my eyebrows certainly have issues at times, my chin is the “elephant in the room” so to speak, and I have been know to spend the better part of thirty minutes plucking, plucking, plucking.
Glad you stopped at George’s, home of the Big-O!
OMG, I have a 15x mirror, and I am like a crack head with it. I have to tell myself to put the mirror down and walk away. I had no idea that I had fuzz on my top lip. And I also have one brow that cooperates and the other not so much.
My eyebrows have two different arches…it’s quite impossible to make them look the same.
I use one of those lighted magnifying mirrors every day to do my makeup. You really can start to go crazy finding blackheads and plucking stray hairs. But it’s great when you’re putting your eyeliner on!
Yes I have one unruly eyebrow. Why is that?
I have one of those mirrors and I rarely look in it….and you know why.
My daughter has the same dress as the one your daughter is wearing in these pictures but hers is pink. I make her wear a tank top underneath it, too. What is wrong with children’s clothing designers these days?? My daughter does not need to wear a v-neck!
I have an eyebrow story for ya…
once right after Noah was born, my mother in law gave me $10 and a card to her favorite beautician. She said I should go and get my eyebrows waxed because I “used to keep them so nice!”
Used to–being the operative word.
Then I waxed more than just my eyebrows–I waxed frustration to my Chris at work over the phone for the next 20 minutes and vented my horror for such a gift.
I have one beautiful, perfectly groomed eyebrow and one that has hairs growing all cattywampus. I’m glad to know I’m not alone. Surely there’s a Facebook group for us.
First of all, love Caroline’s tattoo.
Secondly, YES, I have a crazy eyebrow. And what drives me batty is when a random hair decides to grow straight out and must be plucked, even though it might possibly leave a teensy little bald spot that the other brow hairs may or may not cover up. See? Issues.
YES. one eyebrow wants to stick straight up in the middle.
When I was little, whenever we went to a museum I always got shiny rocks.
Yes yes yes!
The mismatched brows, they are a curse.
Not only do I have my dad’s brows, but they are asymmetrical. Dern!
Left – good
Right – unruly
I thought it was just me. Now I know I’m part of a club! I’ll sleep better tonight…
One of my brother’s eyebrows has a cowlick. My eyebrow issues pale to that. George’s has great food! And you’ve gotta love a place that brags about Bush and Pat Green in the same sentence. : )
I am in love with the fact that you played “George’s Bar” on your way to George’s bar. It makes me feel so much better about that fact that my then 4 year old knew exactly how many “gotta, gotta”s there were before you get to the “yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well I’m still here” part.
Have you ever heard of threading? I promise you, once you get your eyebrows threaded, you will never go near wax again! It makes both my brows behave.
When I let my eyebrows tap into their wild side, they begin to look the way children draw birds in the sky in, say, third grade. You know, those two connected humps that are supposed to be the wings in flight. WINGS IN FLIGHT! Doesn’t that sound much better than uni-brow?
Blessings,
~Toni~
Oh my gosh, I thought my momma was the only one who had that mirror! She swears by it. It is truly scary. I’m not ready for it yet. Too depressing.
You want the science behind how liquid water turns into water vapor, or was that just a rhetorical thought?
I do have one eyebrow that I favor over the other… that just sounds odd. But I’m thinking it might have more to do with the fact that i’m right handed and less to do with the actual eyebrow being better than the other. Does that make sense?
Yep, universal! One good brow – the other grows STRAIGHT UP at certain parts! Although my mom SWEARS (oh, she does) that she knew none of us were switched at birth based on this one fact alone!
WOW that looks like fun!
We were just at my parents house over the weekend and my mom has one of those magnified mirrors is her bathroom. I was looking at myself and swore it looked like I had skin cancer all over my face. Not a pretty sight!
I SERIOUSLY can’t believe others have the eyebrow thing…..I thought I was all alone on this.
I have one AWESOME looking eyebrow. Well groomed, perfect arch.
The other…..not so much. I try hard to re-create the beauty, but it isn’t working.
WHAT IS UP WITH THIS????
Find a cure Big Mama!
Kelly in Michigan
eyebrows? i leave all the decision making and talent to make them look “the same” to the woman i pay to wax them every two weeks. body hair? she also waxes other various parts of my body and it’s all a good thing she does.
that little cake is adorable.
mari
Sorry- had to add that these comments are THE FUNNIEST THINGS I’VE EVER READ.
Everyone should read every single one……LAUGHING MY EYEBROWS OFF!!!!!!
YES! Me too! I recently started plucking my own brows, it really all started with this one vietnamese nail lady telling me totally out of the blue ‘You look like clown’. Because my eyebrows are round. Gah! It never bothered me before, then I became obsessed. Its true! I always had this surprised/happy look on my face, and I never realized it. But no matter how many photos I would bring in of JLo and Jack, they said that it was a total lost cause, it was just my natural brow shape. Now that I do it myself, I wrestle them into an angle. The secret is keeping them long, so you can brush them into shape. My left brow is perfection! Totally mysterious. My right.. not so much. Its frustrating! But at least one perfect arch is better than looking like a total Bozo.
Okay I feel soooo much better about my eyebrow issues now. My left one is perfect but the right one seems to want to grow straight up. No matter what I try I cannot tame it so if you figure that out I’m going to need a follow up post.
It has always bothered me that my eyebrows do not match exactly!
it’s my left eyebrow that’s out of control. tweezing does nothing to help, either.
I am in such horror when I sit down and look into my regular mirror, that when I go to my parents’ home and gaze into my mother’s magnified mirror, I need medication to get me through the rest of my visit. It’s that awful. And each bathroom visit gets longer and longer, until finally, I break. And not because I’ve tweezed my eyebrows away, but because I’m just exhausted with myself. With every pore. Every blemish. And then I start thinking the crazy thoughts of regular visits to the dermatologist/aesthetician/plastic surgeon (not for procedures, but for therapies, you know)…oh, the crazy thoughts that come from those stupid magnification mirrors invented to help you locate those hard-to-reach-hairs and pluck them!!!
Is it possible to have two good eyebrows when you’re right handed and you have to reach across your line of vision to pluck the left side? That’s like begging for a crazy left eyebrow.
I definitely have a good and a bad brow!
i am totaly in the minority here I havent ever paid that much attention to my eyebrows, i am usually so overwhelmed by my da*n cowlick in the middle of my bangs i dont even notice the brows. but the lip hair thing i have developed since second pregnancy I could totally do without.
steff
I totally have the one good eyebrow and one bad! And somehow it rotates?! Don’t even ask me, it’s a mystery. Sure makes it hard to remember which side my profile looks better from though!! UGH!
Oh my gosh, so yesterday just before I read this a girl at work complimented me on my eye brows and asked me where I got them waxed. I laughed out loud! I told her I pluck them myself every day of my life while sitting in the bathroom sink with my face up close to a 10x magnifying mirror. She was hoping for a magic cure. There is none. I would have a uni-brow if I wasn’t so regimented. My dark hair doesn’t even let me go a single day! And yes, even though she complimented me, my right brow has a mind of its own. It is far shorter than my left because apparently the end just doesn’t grow. I cannot bare to pluck the left to size because it looks better. I keep hoping the right will grow in! This is where my side sweep part comes in handy.
Also, I high school my friend and I’s moms used to hide our tweezers from us because they thought we were getting our brows too thin & far apart!
I have two fraternal caterpillar eyebrows crawling across my face. I call them fraternal because they look NOTHING alike. I think one was adopted.
Two good eyebrows. Sorry. Actually, they are so naturally thick and wide, I have a lot to work with to even them up.
It is universal and my answer to this problem was to get embellish with permanent make up, otherwise known as tattoo. I am so happy with the results, my eyebrows match and they always look fabulous! SSHHH don’t tell anyone!
Well, if it’s for science…
left eyebrow bad. Right eyebrow good.
I can get my right eyebrow to look decent but then my left eyebrow does bad things to get attention. Time marches on and before long you realize it’s marching across your face!
~Meredith
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