Wax

If you all know me well, you know that I have always been very concerned and bothered by Taylor's unibrow. Ever since she was about 6 months old her brows have been very dense and very "hairy". They bother me.

I know far too well about how kids can be mean and tease when it comes to facial hair on girls. I got a lot of this growing up while in elementary school. Hair on my arms, on my legs, upper lip, eyebrows. So I'm very sensitive to this especially when it comes to my daughter. I don't ever want her to have to endure the ridicule I went through as a child.

In the past I have waxed my arms. I went to a professional to do this and about 6 weeks before my wedding she had the was up too hot and burned my arms. Fortunately it didn't show to well in my wedding pictures. So from that point forward, I had been using Nad's whenever I wanted to remove the hair on my arms. It's a cold wax that has reusable muslin strips and there's very low pain associated. Very messy but VERY effective! So as I got older and life became more busy with my own children, I put the Nad's aside and just moved forward with the hairy arms and would get facial waxes regularly.

About 3 months ago, while walking through Target, I came across my favorite Nad's product but this time, they were in strips!!! Yes, pre-measured facial hair removal strips. So of course, my mind went upon Taylor and her brows and I bought the product a few weeks ago. I had cleared the use of this product on Taylor with Tony as he knows how sensitive I am about our girl.

So tonight after Taylor's bath, I got brave enough to try them out on her. Periodically before this, she would allow me to tweeze some hairs but I could only get 2 or 3 baby fine hairs before she ran away and wouldn't allow me near her with the tweezers. So I figured that the pre-measured strips would be just the product I needed to clean up her brows.

Here are the before and after shots: I think they turned out pretty well. Of course, I need to do more shaping but for now...this will do! I know, it's VERY vain of me and probably pretty snobby and will probably give my daughter a complex for the rest of her life BUT, I would rather have to deal with this problem than to risk her coming home in tears and be self conscious because some horrible child made terrible remarks about her facial hair. I know...I've been there and really...those words and laughs hurt a LOT more than the process of waxing or tweezing!

BEFORE:



AFTER:


Does Nad's Hurt?

Whirlwind weekend

Thursday I was home sick. So much so that I couldn't log into work. Body aches, chills, slight fever, congestion. It was crazy because the weekend prior I had the same thing. I think it's attributed to partial dehydration (it's been getting warmer here in the desert) and I haven't been drinking as much water as I should be.

The boys were out of school for Rodeo vacation. Jackson had Wed-Friday off while Anthony had a half day on Wednesday and all of Thursday and Friday off. We had one of Anthony's classmates come and spend the night at our house. Fortunately Tony was able to handle/play with the 3 boys while I collapsed w/Taylor in my bedroom. On Friday, I was feeling a bit better but knew I had to continue high water intake. That evening, Jackson had his karate graduation and advanced to a Yellow Belt. Saturday was Anthony's karate graduation and he advanced to a Red/brown belt. They both did great!

My uncle David was in town helping my mom and dad complete the rest of their house remodel. Saturday night after all of our errands we went out to dinner with him at Jackson's favorite restaurant "The Peanut Place" (Texas Roadhouse). Then we came home. Sunday, we woke up early and took the boys for their tennis clinics and came back to my mom's house to set up the kid's playroom. :-)

Of course I'm back to work and Daylight savings time occurs in 1 week. Usually that means that time and the rest of the year will ZIP on by for me! I'm sure that March will be just as busy if not busier for us than February. It's crazy how that happens but it seems like every weekend in March we have something going on. Where's the downtime????