eyebrows

It just didn't seem appropriate to write about this in my previous post....

Honestly, I don't really mind losing my hair.  I mean... I do... but I don't... what I really hate is losing my eyebrows.  That's when you really start to look, well, sick.

It took a while.  The hair on my head fell out in July.  Everywhere else pretty much too.  I haven't had to shave my legs in months.  Thankfully, I still had my eyebrows.  Until last week that is. 

Now, I didn't have very thick eyebrows to begin with.  In fact, I somewhat took pride in the soft, fair eyebrows I was blessed with.  Sure, I plucked the stray hair occasionally... and even broke down and began waxing them periodically.  I mean, what's a girl to do when the pedicure lady gives you "that look" when you tell her "no thanks" to the "eyebrows?" question (even the strongest of us crumble!) 

Anyways, I attended a program by the ACS this week (Look good feel better).  Honestly - I went for the free makeup.  But it turned out to be a pretty nice evening with Gail, Tanya, Kim and Robin... and of course, Gail.  In addition to a bag full of goodies, Gail gave us lots of great tips and tricks and we had a good time playing make up and trying on wigs.  I even came home with a new wig. 

Yes, it makes me look like a 50 year old librarian.  I'm still not sure I'll ever really wear it in front of anyone I know.  I did wear it on my trip to Indianapolis yesterday.  I figured, I was meeting a new client who had never met me, so why not try it out?  Unfortunately, the client called in sick (I didn't find this out until I landed in Indy!) and we did the meeting by conference call (me, sitting on the ground in the Indy airport... waiting for my flight back to Philly).  But I did spend the entire day in the Indianapolis airport wearing that wig (and we did get the project!).  I felt mildly fraudulent and incognito, but hey... nobody really obviously stared!  And nobody came up to me to talk about my cancer.

Back to the eyebrows.  One of the things Gail insisted on was eyebrow makeup.  I've tried this before and it always looks ridiculous.  But Gail had some kind of eyebrow magic: Anastasia Eyebrow Ex-press (check out the beautiful brows in the picture above!)  I felt so great that I went to the store today and bought it myself.  Of course, similar to my many experiences with my hairdresser, I can never get it to look as good when I do it myself.  So here I sit, typing this with crooked eyebrows! 

At least I know Mike loves me for who I am... bald head, crooked eyebrows and all... and for now, that's who I'll stick with (but I will keep practicing my eyebrow magic at home and maybe someday... will venture out wearing my brows with pride)