Sooo....Mr Heddi went to the spa the other day

[Heddi]

He read an article in a magazine (mistake #1---reading never did anyone any good) about how people are judged by their faces, and how Michelle Obama was considered "mean" until she got her eyebrows waxed and it changed the expression on her face and now she looks "nice">

Mr. Hed says that people have always said he looks Mean, and he's sure it's because of the eyebrows. I think it's because he hates nearly every person he shares air with (that's why I married him!!!). But whatev.

So we go to the FROO FROO salon affiliated with a company that sells TWENTY EIGHT DOLLAR SHAMPOO!!!! serious. To get his EYE BROWS WAXED.

dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn

It was a very nice salon/spa. The kind that played tinky music when you walked in and smelled kind of like a head shop would smell if it didn't smell like a headshop.

The Waxer lady takes him in the room and I go with him so I can laugh at his pain.

She has him lie down on the bed thing and before she does anything, has him pick a card of CHAKRAS because it's this "ceremony" they do to open and close with.

So he chooses the Heart Chakra. The lady tells us what Chakras are and we try not to laugh out loud because she hasn't put the wax on and we don't want it to hurt more than it should. Whooops...did I pull off the WHOLE eyebrow? mybad.

Oh and we don't tell her we're nurses and the whole Chakra thing is bullshit.

She tells him his Heart chakra is amazingly found in his chest.1!!

So she puts some stinky oil on her hand and "Thereapeutically" touches his head, forcing the negativity out of his body WOOSH!! it goes away. IS he feeling more "in touch with the world". No, I'm thirsty he says ha ha ha.

So she does the eyebrow wax. While she does this, she suggests that i read outloud the informational cards regarding the other 5 Chakras.

They read like badly written horrroscopes. I note that at the bottom of the cards are the trademark for the design and information. I didn't think that such things could be trademarked and patented, that's why BIGPHARMA!!! was against the healing power of CHAKRA!1

She waxes his eyebrows and I am disapointed that he didn't scream in pain. Why the hell did I come back here to this dark room, anyway? Oh and the soothing tea they gave me...NOT tea at all. It was just bark infused with hot water. :-/

So the "closing" ceremony happens===more stinky oil on the hand, more shunning of demons. Asking if he feels more connected with the world. I know he wants to say that he has to go potty.

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$15 for a brow wax and some mumbo jumbo....a rather interesting Saturday morning.

[TZ]

1. Mr. and Mrs. Heddi....

Woo magnets...:rofl:

[Warpy]

2. I always loved watching my fellow nurses when some woo addict

would roll in on a gurney. Oh, we were tolerant as hell, especially of all the Indian stuff we confronted so often it was second nature, but the expressions were always "Oh, another one. What a crock of stinking shit!" when the personal belongings would have bottles of vitamins and homeopathic crapola and Tarot cards and crystals.

We never bothered to remind them that the wouldn't be on their cans in intensive care if any of the mumbo jumbo had actually worked.

[mr blur]

3. Hmm, perhaps I should have my goatee waxed.

Although without the Woo accompaniment.

[Heddi]

4. They wax all kinds of things these days

The Waxing menu was extensive. They'd even wax the hair off your toes AND fingers (separate fees, of course).

[frogmarch]

5. So, tell us...

after his wax job, does Mr. Hed still look MEAN?

Love your posts, Heddi, and this was yet another goody. :-D

[Heddi]

6. well I never thought he looked mean to begin with

buttttttt

I suppose that he looks neater. She basically removed the wayward hairs under the brow so now it looks like he has a more defined naural arch. I think it looks good, but that's not to say pre-wax he looked like Noel Gallagher or anything....


The woo woo waxer said "you'll start to look like a meterosexual" and I think "START? Honey, he's been getting his hair dyed and foiled for years, before Meterosexual was even a flicker in someone'e eye"

but I didn't say that. I just thought it with my Smart Ass Chakra which was in overdrive that day.

[frogmarch]

7. I almost responded by saying

wow, Mr. Hed sure looks a lot like Noel Gallagher! Then I realized the picture you posted was of Noel Gallagher. If it's indeed your husband, wow, Mr. Hed sure looks a lot like Noel Gallagher!

Mr. Froggy could do with a brow wax, but he couldn't care less. At age 66, he still has a full head of beautiful hair, but what does he do? He goes to the barber every month or two and gets a buzz cut. :eyes: I wish he had a bit of metero in him, but oh well, at least he showers regularly and stuff.

At the woo woo waxer place, was there a tank filled with those little fishies that eat dead skin off feet? I don't know why the thought of that creeps me out, but it does. Eww.

[Heddi]

8. The exzema fish creep me out too

I don't think they had those. I don't know how they can be legal, from a health-department standard because you can't "sterilize" fish after each use and I have to believe that's a way to transmit blood borne pathogens and disease. Yech.

Even in the hospital, when we do leach therapy (we do!), the leaches are one-time use, sterile (as in can't make babies-sterile and born and raised in sterile environment-sterile), and once they've sucked enough blood and get engorged and fall off, we dispatch them in a bottle of alcohol and put them in the biohazard box so they can be incinerated.

Whenever I see those skin eating fish on TV I want to just vomit. If I ever saw them in person, or if a fish ever started eating MY skin I think I would simultaneously have a stroke, heart attack, lose my bowels, pee myself, and have a concurrent coughing, sneezing, and farting spell. In other words, my body would explode organ by organ, cell by cell, just from the freakishness of having a fish eat my dead skin :scared:

[frogmarch]

10. I'd considered that too. I wondered how

many diseases could be spread by the skin eating fish. Gross.

Leech therapy? Despite all the precautions taken at the hospital where you work, the thought of leech therapy creeps me out too. :wow: I think even more so than the fish.

[Heddi]

12. The leaches are great

People grow quite fond of them after a while

[Odin2005]

9. The Chakra BS is ridiculous beyond belief!

[Heddi]

11. You just need your Bullshit Chakra re-alligned

For $45 we can get you started....