Wednesday, November 3, 2010

do you smell burning hair?

due to a wonderful combination of genes/medication/hormones, i have been blessed with rather rapidly growing hair. even my eyebrows grow long at an alarmingly fast rate. i can wax one day and they will be back a week later. WAX! i say. WAX! i am sick to death of waxing, so i decided to try laser hair removal, now that the lasers are supposedly better.

all has been going well, until today, when andrea-the-new-girl tried to take out my entire eyebrow, instead of just the stray hairs above and below it! seriously, she zapped an entire section of my brow! she twitched a bit, then said in an all-apologetic voice, "Oh, sorry...I sort of knicked the edge, but it won't leave a hole or anything."

once i got out to my car and saw it in the mirror, i realized it was WAY more than "the edge" and i'm really hoping it didn't actually penetrate the thickness of my peter gallagher brow to kill the roots. it is all singed and poking in about 27 different directions. yay for me and my attempts to not look like a caveman. ugh.

okay, this is awful photo quality, but i had to take it with my computer because my camera battery is dead. you can actually see a hole among all the scattered/singed hairs.



i'm pretty sure andrea probably about peed her pants. i know i almost did. can i get a refund?

***okay, my camera battery is charged now, so here is a better photo, with a comparison of a "what it should look like" photo...see all the singed hairs, and they are torched into that position...I've tried to smooth them out. hopefully it won't last long and they won't just fall out. ignore all the other flaws on my face and brow, please.

what it should be, before shot:



what it is, after the laser slip, for reals, it's stuck like this. jealous?:

11 comments:

Kristina P. said...

Oh, it totally doesn't look that bad! Uh, yeah.

Nat Heaton said...

Ouch...that is crazy! I'm jealous you are doing laser though!!

Rydgd said...

stupid new girl. i think you should get to zap andrea's brow. eye for an eye - brow for a brow, i always say.

Cristy said...

So unprofessional! She should have offered you a refund for the session right away. I hope that your eyebrow returns to normal and that your next appointment goes better.

andrea said...

You should at least have received a discount.

Back when I was single and working I did some laser treatments on my armpits. I only had 2 of the 6 recommended treatments, and it doesn't look like I had anything done at all. I felt like it affected how my sweat smelled for a little while. After I'm done having and nursing kids I'd like to save the money to go back and finish up with more treatments.

Catherine said...

Danelle...seriously...you always have the best stories. I would definitely ask for some money back.

caplansinbotswana said...

Why do you have a before picture of your eye?

Shay said...

You are brave...I don't know if I would dare laser anything...BTW, Your makeup looks really pretty in the before picture. It sounds like Andrea is better at sugarcoating than she is lasering.

Autumn said...

Bwahahahaha! I have SO been there! I've never had laser treatments but my good friend used to wax my eyebrows. One day as she ripped the wax off my eye she says, "oops." Ya. Not the thing that you want to hear when you're dealing with things on your face! Good luck with the regrowth! :)

Marcia said...

At least it wasn't your eyeball. That is a little bit SCARY!

Danelle said...

Marcia, that is SO true! I wear protective glasses during the session, but at the angle she was at, she totally could have blinded me. Yikes.