September 20, 2009

I never had to fuss about my eyebrows. Fair skinned with dirty blond/mousy brown hair my eyebrows were just there. No uni-brow to worry about. I focused on my eyelashes using mascara to draw attention to my blue eyes, my best feature or so I thought. Now, however, I have lines around my eyes, incipient eye bags and mascara just doesn't enhance the way it used to. So I turned to my eyebrows to bring my face back into focus. And found they were migrating! There are no strays to pluck. There are only strays. There are long springy black hairs shooting up and out that seem to be eyelashes emerging from the wrong place. There are little short hairs growing backwards. There is it seems, a general rebellion in the ranks as the brow hairs spread out and meander around no longer deigning to lie together in an orderly brow like fashion. What to do? I stroke on some eyebrow powder attempting to create a delicate arch. Oh dear! Now my left brow arches nicely, but the right one is stubbornly straight and thick and distinctly lower than the right. A curve on the left, a deep frown line above my nose and a dash on the right. I have created a punctuation mark on my face ~/-

I decide my face has character.

I am interesting .............and old.