This is me Ellie...Having so much fun with this story!
My husband who has a very strong presence, has white hair, mustache, and a beard... When he is in a picture, his features blend into a white glow, almost a blur...
I suggested, Ha Ha, not really, , "I want to make your eyebrows darker so when we take pictures your handsome face has definition".
This should have been a no-brainer for me. By-the-way, I am an aesthetician, I tint woman's and men's eyebrows, and lashes in my studio...
I use the real stuff...
I know how my product works, I'll tell you it takes a lot longer than 5 minutes to grab the color, more like 20-25 minutes'.
I bought a product called, 'just for men', that is supposed to enhance the eyebrows, mustache, and beard. It takes 5 minutes and they say to use a timer, I did that, I did not leave it a minute longer.
I chose a medium brown. I knew black was out of the question...
They did not have blonde which would have been the smarter choice.
It comes with a brush, you mix two products together, apply to the area to be darkened, and wait... I applied some on his eyebrows, a little above his sideburns... and set the timer...
When I removed the tint with warm water using round cotton pads, his eyebrows were scary dark.
They weren't kidding when they said 5 minutes...
At this point I am sick to my stomach, the area above his sideburns now looked like he had on black earmuffs.
OH MY Gosh!!!! What have I done...I think he noticed...The look on my face that something went wrong...
He looked like the director, Martin Scorsese who has white hair and very dark eyebrows. Not very attractive...
No matter how much I wiped his eyebrows, they were not getting any lighter...
When all else fails 'READ THE DIRECTIONS'....LOL
That is just what I decided to do after the fact.
The directions; to lighten the dark brows, you have to mix hydrogen peroxide and shampoo to get the brows lighter.
My husband took it like a man...
Part of me wanted to laugh and part of me wanted to hide...
I made sure the look on my face did not alarm him too much.
He got out his Lava soap instead of shampoo, which is a strong mechanic soap, mixed it with the peroxide, hoping to lighten it immediately, it wasn't doing the job quick enough.
I apologized for experimenting on him, and that he has to live with the consequence of my goof up(s).
I said to him, "I am only trying to keep us looking good", not that he cares, he just loves me.
I called him the next day from work to see if anyone made a comment, regarding his dark brows. "NO!!! not one person", he said.
Oh, I was so relieved, still hoping it will fade quickly. He did continue to say, "no one said anything because I put a brown paper bag on my head, made 2 holes for my eyes", in fact, he went on to say, he put two bags in case the first one blew off. LOL
This beautiful man said to me "I feel like you are a little girl and you are playing with me like a little doll". I am pretty sure most wives usually have an opinion on what her man should wear or look like.
I just took it a step further, with my expertise in coloring brows and lashes. Oh, by the way, my husband said, "I can't wait until you decide that you like what I look like".
After all is said and done, I asked my girlfriend if she noticed anything different about Dewain, she said with a question, "did he shave his beard"?
My husband could have responded differently to this whole botched up color job, but no, he is secure in who he is, it is me who is doing all the changing. Let's face it, he is used to me, he should know who I am by now. By the way, we just celebrated 50 beautiful years together...
Next week I am going to convince him to spike his hair!
OH by the way, I convinced my darling husband he needed bonding blanket infused with all my love, this way, he won't forget the gal who plays with him....LOL
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