October 15th, 2008
Today I went through a box of old pictures and notes and stuff like that from when I was very young. The box contained things like notes from middle school, really embarrassing emo poems I wrote in my angsty teen years, and horrifying pictures of me from 7th grade all the way up into college. I found a diary that documented my transformation from a normal 13 year old girl into a badly behaved 15 year old who hung with the wrong crowd and cussed like a sailor. Reading my words made me feel both embarrassed and more than a little anxious about my future. I have two lovely daughters and I am nothing if not terrified that they will go down the same path I once traveled and not make it out as blessed as I am.
Presently, I try not to do things I will regret and today I got a backward glimpse of how I came to be the person I am today. I know that I am who I am because of all of those experiences, both bad and good. So I can’t regret doing all of the stupid things I did. I just have to forgive myself and move on.
On a lighter note there is just one thing I have a hard time forgiving myself for. I noticed a recurring theme in most of the pictures…
My eyebrows.
Why oh why did someone not tell me that I needed to wax? I don’t even think I knew what waxing was until my freshman year of college. Finally one of my closest girlfriends took me to the salon and introduced me to the fine art of pain = beauty.
Here Ashley meet this woman…she is going to yank hair out of your face and you will be prettier.
Your welcome.
So yeah back to the lovely pictures of me with the big hairy strips of fur above my eyes. I found a picture of me and a friend at my very first sorority formal. In case you don’t know me…I am one on the right with the caterpillars on my face. It makes me cringe! Enjoy my humiliation!
Now…like most things waxing and plucking should be done in moderation. Once I discovered this wonderful practice of pulling hair out of my face, I went a little too far. I would start plucking and just plain ol’ go too far. My wedding pictures are a prime example. Not only was I fatter than I had ever been, I also had no eyebrows.
This is because I went a little plucking crazy. I am going to share a picture of this only because I am secure enough in myself to expose the truth. No not really….I am just glutton for punishment I guess. That’s what the “Sincerely Fro’ me to you” carnival is all about right? So here ya’ll go. The other side of the eyebrow extreme. Oh it’s going to be so hard to click publish. I better do it before I chicken out.
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That. Is. Too. Funny.
You are brave.
We learn from our mistakes, huh?
That is awesome!!
I want to start participating in this on Thursdays. It brings me a laugh every time!
Hopefully, see you next Thursday!
sometimes these Thursdays are indeed difficult at least IMO — glad you shared =)
my mom loves to torture me by making me pluck her eyebrows – from the age of 9 till today at 29. I’ve plucked her bald before because she made me mad (I’m ashamed now though!) and can happily say it always grows back, thankfully!
I am always nervous when its time to pluck the brows, whats to much whats not enough…
Eyebrows are a hard thing to control, there is a fine balance to those things.
Ouch! My friend tried to wax her daughters eyebrows a few weeks after I had successfully waxed them for her did an amazing job. Well lets say…the wax got away from her and well…she had a none too happy daughter! We ALL learn from our mistakes!
She never let her mom touch her eyebrows again!
eyebrows are tough….I am often on the wrong side, either too little or too much plucking and sadly when you cross that line there is very little you can do to go back to the other side!
HAHAHA! I’ve plucked too much on one side and had lopsided eyebrows before. You’re not alone. Too Funny! Thanks for sharing…
Eyebrows are overrated, anyway. I recently went and had surgery done on the siamese twins that mine had become. Now they are their own individuals.
LOL, I can never get mine just right either!
I have seen your wedding photos before and I never noticed the eyebrows until now. HAHAHA! I have some pretty embarassing pics too. I’ll have to tell you about them sometime!
You are cracking me up! I’m with Aimee, I have seen your wedding pics but had never noticed that before either, too funny!
Now, I guess something must be wrong with me when I ask….what was wrong with the first photo?!
I have on a few occasions done the eyebrow waxing thing. TOO.MUCH.PAIN. I suspect that this Greek girl probably should groom mine a little more.
So nice to meet you tonight. Hope Tamara and I didn’t scare you to bad.
Your blog cracks me up. I have so done the same thing with my eyebrows. Sometimes, less is not more! Ha!
Have fun tomorrow!
Oh, honey, I have so been there with the brows! I got mine done for the first time right before a wedding when I was 17. I ended up with a bright red patch on my very pale face–not attractive! I, too, am always one short tweeze away from being an over-plucker. Mine are already thinning. What IS it about it that makes us get carried away?
I still tease my sister because she decided to save a few bucks and wax her own eyebrows the day before her wedding. She looks perpetually surprised in her wedding photos. LOL
That is hilarious! I never noticed your bushy eyebrows…probably because I had the Brooke Shields look myself…