As I watched an episode of “Grownish” on demand, Chloé x Halle’s characters were in need of making extra income. One of the girls came into the scene with a band-aid on her eyebrow, when asked what happened she mentioned she tried to wax her own eyebrows and made a huge mistake. After I saw this scene I was reminded how I had my eyebrows and skin ripped off my face from my first college roommate. You may be asking yourself how that would even happen, so let me tell you.
Being 17 and in college at the time, I had very little money, even from my mailroom job at the school. My roommate told me she use to do hair and she knew how to wax from a salon she worked at back in her home state. I had/have thick eyebrows, so needing to maintain them was a must and I let her do it. Feeling how extremely hot the wax was, she assured me it’s normal and don’t worry. She rips off the paper with my skin and eyebrow hairs attached to it. She did the same to the other eyebrow as well. After I was allowed to look in the mirror I screamed bloody murder and ran out. The next day I had a new hairdo...bangs. Between raw skin on the top and bottom of both eyebrows (or what was left of them), the bangs were a must. I also had burn marks because my friend, Greg, decided to torture me and apply alcohol to the ripped skin. Therefore, I channeled my inner Tootie and rocked those bangs like my skin wasn’t missing underneath.
Minimum wage should have been increased back then. If I made more than $6 an hour in that mailroom, I would have been able to go to a professional and my eyebrows would still grow in certain areas. I beg of you to never ever let a friend do your hair or eyebrows unless you can see pictures of their work. Granted who would do that nowadays since we live in “social media la la land”, but you’d be surprised what desperation and eyebrows that grow like wildfire will make you do.
I didn’t have the whole haircut, but I cut some thick bangs like her. Only difference is mine covered where my eyebrows were. Thanks Tootie, for the inspiration.