There is no doubt about it, eyebrows are a pain in the neck! I don’t know about you, but there aren’t too many things I want symmetrical, eyebrows are one of them, glasses being another! To me, if they are out of sync, or uneven, I’m not one bit happy. That being said, I can drive myself crazy trying to get them just right.

My eyebrows have been tattooed three or four times over the years, and each time they just don’t look like I think they should. How about you? Have you ever had your eyebrows worked on? or have you been happy with their shape, color, and style? If you’ve been happy with them, you are lucky.

The first time I had my eyebrows tattooed was many years ago, way before mycrobladding. When I went to this lady, who by the way came highly recommended, used an old school tattoo gun. Yikes! That was not only scary, but it was incredible painful. To add insult to injury, at the time I jumped in with both feet. I not only had my eyebrows tattooed, I had eyeliner, and lip liner tattooed all at once as well.

Apparently, my skin is very sun damaged, and extremely sensitive. Not apparently, it was, and still is sensitive. She had a cream to put on my skin that might as well have been Jello, because it didn’t help at all. Since she was working on my face, and I couldn’t move or she would make a mistake, my face was the only part of me still on the table. The remainder of me was ten feet up on the ceiling. She wasn’t happy, I wasn’t happy, but I started it, so I had to finish it.

I had red hair at the time, and I explained to her that it wasn’t going to be red for long. It was going to be back to dark blond. When I left her studio, and the dust had settled, my eyebrows were red!!! Not auburn, but red! I wasn’t too pleased about that, but I thought when I returned for a touch up, I’d have her brown them up a bit. Don’t panic, everything is fixable.

The Tattoo lady was located in Arizona, and I actually ventured out to Ultra Hot Arizona to have my tattoo’s done. My girlfriend was with me, and the heat wasn’t a concern. Today, it’s a big concern…..I wouldn’t consider it. I was only there for a short visit (to have my eyebrows tattooed), so we wanted to see, and do as much as possible in the time I had. We drove from Flagstaff all the way to Mexico. And what we realized was, our lips arrived way before the car ever got to the designated town we were going to visit.

If you have ever had your lips tattooed, you’d knowhow much they swell up, at least to three or more times their size due to trauma! I’d say just about every part of our faces were traumatized that day having faced that big old black tattoo gun. To make it even more fun our faces were all greased up so nothing dried out.

What a sight that must have been…

My girlfriend and myself went together, because safety comes in numbers! At least we both had each other to lean on.

On our drive that summer day, we went almost all the way to Flagstaff, and found a Renaissance Fair to check out. People were dressed in midivil attire, with ribbons, faces all made up, and clothes that made us feel like we had stumbled into a mid-evil Hollywood movie. The music was from mid-evil England, and everyone was over the top joyous.

That was just the beginning. When we finished there, and had gotten a break from the heat due to the mountains, and altitude, so we ventured south to Tubac.

Tubac was at the time a small artist enclave above Tucson. It was dirt streets, but only a few, with adobe houses, and wire fences around the properties. It wasn’t impressive, clean, or even very interesting. I remember thinking, now is a good time to buy property here. But it was an armpit of a small, deserted, desert town. Well we saw it, we drove around it, now we’re going to leave it.

And leave it we did! On our way to Mexico……. What a fun day we were having, time to grease up again. We don’t want anything to get dried out!!!

Now going across the border, what should we focus on. I did notice a few people turning to look at us. After all, our lips were bigger than ever, and they did arrive before we did.

I brought back silver mirrored balls for the garden, and a few other odds and ends for my yard, but most of all….. I brought back my lips. I had to get my lips into the car so we could return home.

It was a fun trip, and having a friend to share it with was the best. We still laugh about that visit. It was one of those times you couldn’t repeat even if you wanted to.

That was many years ago, and since then I’ve had bad tattoos, and good tattoos of my eyebrows. I’m still having trouble getting them to look halfway decent, but now days If they’re close, they’re close enough!

There is a lady on YouTube who struggles with her eyebrows also, and she said something that really helped me. She said, “Remember your eyebrows are sisters, not twins!” I hope this helps you too.

Thank you for stoping to read this crazy post on eyebrows. Life can be so funny, and fun if you can see it that way.

Until next time, Together we stand. Karen