Itchy Eyebrows
Someone asked me the other day why I do my own make-up. It all started with itchy eyebrows.
Have you ever had itchy eyebrows? Constantly?
I did.
Every time I scratched (which you can't help doing when something itches), a little more of the color so carefully applied that morning would come off under my nails or get smudged around the brow area.
By mid-morning, it would all be relocated to other parts of my face and fingers. At one point, I had to face the fact that it just might be the eyebrow coloring product I was using that was causing the itching. Ok, that's solvable. I'll just go shopping and pick up a different brand – again, and again, and again, and again.
This One Is Guaranteed Itch-free, Ma'am
It's a little weird having itchy eyebrows. Not your typical everyday thing. You invariably start to feel a little 'difficult' when you're standing at a make-up counter asking whether or not this product is going to be better than last 6 brands you tried without luck.After a while, you tend to get a little testy with the sweet young thing behind the counter who has never experienced itchy eyebrows and is promising you that 'this brand would never make your eyebrows itch' – all the while noting the forced smile and expression of disbelief in her eyes.
Well, who the heck could blame her? If it were me, I would have sworn one of my friends had put someone up to playing a gag on me.
Eureka! I Found One!
The one time I came home with a product that didn't make my eyebrows itch, I was certain all my problems had been solved.Finally! Yes!
Until I returned to purchase the next one a half year later. "I'm sorry ma'am, that company decided to restructure and dropped their make-up line a half year ago" with an expression that clearly read 'which planet did you just drop in from?'.....Arghh!!!
The Problem Revealed
The ingredients list on the product from the 'restructured company' – by chance or by design – showed no perfume in their eyebrow pencils.I started comparing.
All the other brands had perfume.
Now, maybe there's some kind of feminine eyebrow secret that they've been hiding from me, but I gotta ask – perfume in an eyebrow pencil?!
Perfume?!
Do eyebrows have some disgusting smell that needs masking? Do they need perfume?? I don't get it!!
And So It Began
I haven't had itchy eyebrows since. I've also been making all my own make-up since. It's fun to do, but admittedly also takes a bit of patience and practice.I don't have any immediate plans of creating personalized make-up for others, but am happy to share my make-up making experiences with readers of this blog.
My next make-up story will be about a big old gob of mascara that got in my eye, and didn't even sting or hurt. Guess which brand that was? :)
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