Oooouch!

I can't do my own brows. Serious. I have all the right tools and I can fix someone else brows but I just can't do mine. I feel sorry for my pink tweezerman... whenever I look at it.

Usually I get my brows done when I go for facials. However, I find that it's hard to get a good beautician who does it right... just can't get the right service for what I pay for. Most of them use shaver which irritates the fragile thin skin on my upper eye and I hate it. On top of that, on a very high occurrence that I'll leave the place with not quite even brows. It's not my perfectionist talking, it's unfortunately true that most of the time the beauticians screw up.

There is only one time that I found someone who did it right. She tweezed my brows into perfect arch. However, I resorted to not to go back and contribute into her pay because she is such a bitch.

I've been really lazy lately. I frequent facial lesser, look at the mirror lesser and let myself go... alright... haha... just kidding... I decided to let my brows to grow back and try out Browhaus. It's backed by Spa Esprit and they are professional in fixing the brows - on the surface... they should be good.

Keeping my fingers crossed, I stepped into their branch at Paragon. I crashed the branch instead of making an appointment. It's a small shop hidden behind Spa Esprit.

They were really busy even on a Wednesday afternoon.

Ooops... it's a 2 hours wait for the next available slot for tweezing but they have threading in 40 mins.... 2 hours vs 40 mins... I just couldn't shop around at Paragon for another 2 hours with my little monster - I might end up buying that expensive designer sleek looking baby high chair... so threading it was!

So after spending 40 mins wandering around and contributed the pay for some sales assistants, I went back to Browhaus again. Two ladies left happily despite having some red patches on their brows and wiping their tears from the sockets of their eyes. I was being ushered to lie down on a chair by an Indian lady. She promised me that my brows will be really nice after her magic work.

Apparently threading is an interactive work. The customer has to help to pull the skin for the thread to run quickly to root the unruly hair and it hurts... really bloody painful. Ooooh... I did my upper lip as well. When the thread ran through my upper lip, I really felt like giving her a punch on her face.

She did the magic and from her satisfied smile, I was assured that she's proud of her handy work. Then, she passed me the mirror, gave me the biggest smile and said in awe: "It's beautiful..."

I was hoping that I would not end up like the ladies - red patches. Damn it... I ended up having patches of swollen skin on the socket of my eyes and at the corner of my lips. Worse, my brows were not beautiful... those were uneven brows and complemented with my tan skin, with the new arch of my brows, the first thing came into my mind was the statue of the goddess on the roof of a Hindu temple.

I look Bollywood. She really needs to go to get her eyes checked. My brows were uneven and they were NOT beautiful...

When I went to pay for the service, unwillingly, I had to listen to 3 different pushy shop assistants telling me 5 times on how I could save 70 bucks by signing up the package which could be used for 2 years.

I was in pain. I wasn't happy. I just wanted to get out of that place. So... I paid 22.70 SGD inclusive GST for my Bollywood goddess look.

On the next day, I met up with a friend and coincidentally her sister also went for threading (normally she goes for tweezing) at Browhaus at Wheelock Place and her brows look just like mine. Maybe Bollywood goddess look is the next IT thing?

Btw, the swollen patches on my skin subsided only after 3 days. I think I really need to put my pink tweezerman into good use...