Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Moustache

The foot scrubbing lady from the previous post persuaded me to have my eyebrows threaded. Then she said, "I will remove your moustache."
What moustache?
"Madam has a moustache."
I'm a Celtic red head. There's hardly a hair on my body, and what's there is fine and fair - the waxing woman charges me less than everybody else. If I have hair above my upper lip (I cannot write 'a moustache') it is also fine and fair.
"No thanks."
She's insistent. "Madam has a moustache."
Of course doubt begins to seep in. Maybe there is a moustache and I haven't noticed it - is that possible? Maybe it's only a few stray blond hairs...
"All right, then, thread the moustache," I say.
The tartlets wake me this morning and the oldest one says "What's wrong with your face, Mummy?"
I dash to the mirror to discover, to my horror, a rash on my upper lip, where my 'moustache' was wrenched out by the threading lady.
Now I really do have a moustache.
And the added worry that when the hair starts to grow back it will be a bristle.

5 comments:

  1. Oh no......I hope it calms down. Witch doctor, something? Stupid woman- not you, the threading one. Good luck

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  2. A hirsute girlfriend of mine used and probably still uses a pair of tweezers. Much cheaper.

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  3. You poor woman, I never go near a salon if I can help it, waxing eyebrows is agony.

    Hope you're better soon.

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  4. Youch! Tried threading for the first time this year - it seemed so fashionable and new and raved about. Never again. Shan't compare it to the pain of childbirth but I'm sure I never had tears of pain runnign down my face during labour. 'You have natural beauty' the nice oriental lady says as I'm leaving with mascara-streaked face. Yeah right. Didn't change my mind. Not going back. Ever.

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  5. Oh gosh - OUCH! Sadly, I have to report that the further I got past 50, the hairs on my legs began to migrate to my chin instead! I would be lost without my trusty tweezers now . . .

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