<p>Now this discussion is one I like! Both Ds and I wax our eyebrows…just have it done at your hair salon…price ranges between $15 - $20 around here depending on expertise/level of person doing it. We like to have ours done in the spa area of our salon, more relaxing than at the stylist’s chair and it is the same price. I’m not much of a manicure person but absolutely have to have pedicures on a regular basis. My feet have become very dry since menopause and I’m not good at daily maintenance with pumice and lotion so off I go to the salon/spa! If I didn’t go I would have gross cracks in my feet…probably TMI! I have been coloring my hair since I found my first batch of gray hairs at the age of 16! My aunts on my dad’s side were all white/silver in their 20s. I usually do it myself every 4 weeks since my hair grows back quickly. I have the salon do foil and color about three times a year so I have some dimensional highlights. I can’t imagine letting my hair go gray. :eek:</p>
<p>Edit: It is 40 degrees and sunny here today! Love it! Bought bathing suits for girls at Target today for $15!!! Yay!</p>
<p>D has done it several times (don’t quite know why, since she’s a blonde). I’ve done it once. I don’t want to sound ethnocentric, but I don’t like having something done to me that shows by someone who speaks almost no English. (I didn’t want her to wax between my brows because I don’t have a unibrow and I didn’t want stubble; couldn’t get that idea across.)</p>
<p>Well I feel like a diva after reading all of your posts. I have my hair colored every 6 weeks and trimed. Facial every 4-6 weeks with an eyebrow wax, pedicure every 4-6 weeks during the sandal months - less often during the winter when the toes don’t come out except for yoga and pilates. Manicure maybe 2-4 a year. I can’t help it. I like to primp. It’s ME time.</p>
<p>I’m right there with you RM. I’ve been getting my hair cut and colored every 5 weeks for several years. I personally think it looks great I also get an eyebrow wax when I get my hair cut. I LOVE my stylist and look forward to the couple of hours in her chair. Definitely ME time!</p>
<p>I always get a pedicure before vacation and regularly during the summer; manicures maybe 4-6 times a year. Wish I had time to do it more frequently.</p>
<p>I need to try something to whiten my teeth, but I am impatient - I want to see the results NOW!</p>
<p>This discussion makes me want to do something! I am getting my hair cut on Friday - so I will have my eyebrows waxed also. Is anyone else losing their eyebrows? Mine are so thin. I guess eventually I will have to learn the proper way in which to pencil some in. Oh my goodness - I have seem some doosies around this town. It’s so noticable! Looks like it was done with a crayon. There is one lady that I’ve seen who does a little curly thing at the outside edge with her jet black crayon. How she thinks that looks natural is beyond me.</p>
<p>I have had a manicure 2 times. Never had a pedicure and had a massage once (I really liked it.)</p>
<p>Sabaray - Hubby and I have been to Bermuda around 6 times. Love it! Stayed at Southhampton Princess the first time. Stayed at Surf Side Beach Club every time since. It’s a little apartment-type community situated around a pool. Has little kitchenette which saves us some money on breakfast and lunches. Right on the ocean - or I mean right on a cliff over the ocean.</p>
<p>Eddieodessa are you losing them or are they just lightening. That is what is happening to me – think they are turning grey. I get them colored also to darken them.</p>
<p>I have had my eyebrows waxed since I was about 15. I definitely had a unibrow and had dark brown hair… not good. Now I mostly just do it myself because after years of waxing, they don’t all grow in and so it’s a pretty easy process. However, now I have to get my lip waxed especially in winter. Frankly, I’d be up for laser treatments there. I am not big on the facials although I should be. I actually had stopped coloring my hair about two years ago (started when I was in my late 20’s at the first sign of gray) because I honestly felt I should have looked better for the kind of money I was spending. Why I am going back to the upkeep, unsure, but we’ll see what he comes up with today. If H doesn’t notice (with all this white around my face currently) he will be deemed blind. :)</p>
oh yes, the dreaded “male blindness syndrome”. it tends to afflict my H also when I get my hair cut… or when the front walk needs to be shoveled. H also occasionally succumbs to the related disorder “male deafness syndrome”. that one was pretty acute when we had crying babies in the middle of the night.</p>
<p>Anxious, that is interesting info about thyroid and eyebrows. My brows seem to be getting shorter, so i’ll have to check into this.</p>
<p>I’ve never colored my hair, which is brownish-red and wavy. Now that i am getting gray, the hairs are WHITE and CURLY and stick up on the top of my head! Right now I am pretending that this is natural highlighting, but the trend is a bit alarming.</p>
<p>I absolutely hate having things done to me…a manicure or facial or massage or hair cut is just as unpleasant to me as a trip to the dentist or gynecologist. It certainly saves money on personal upkeep. I have my haircut only after it looks bad for a while and I dread the appointment.</p>
<p>Spa Day sounds great!!! I suppose that as the weather heats up (will it EVER??) I’ll finally have to start shaving my legs again…Daniel Boone here! :)</p>
<p>I used to end up wearing a hat after haircuts when I was a kid. I have very thick hair and I honestly think people lose themselves in the “thinning” process. So I do a lot of reminding that while I have a lot of hair, I rather like it. Now I go in to the process with a lot of high hopes and just HOPE I don’t end up crying. Today’s appointment is with someone I have never gone to today. A risk, I know. But I’ve watched his work and I seem to always like the way the people in his chair look… the website says he is very good with thick curly hair and creative color. So while I won’t be going for purple or blue streaks, I am hopeful he will have the cure. If not… it’s only hair and it does grow.</p>
<p>Spa day sounds great. Sign me up. Eddie, you’re in charge of finding one in Bermuda. H and I were there for our honeymoon 20+ years ago and I am dying to go back. I’m going to look into your recommended accomodations. </p>
<p>Bit of a frustrating week. If I thought the aid office was frustrating before D matriculated my frustration has doubled in recent days. She wrote to them about an issue in early January- called- no response until yesterday when she was notified that she had a “past due balance”. Evidently that’s the way they resolve questions regarding aid. I know they’re overworked but some kind of explanation as to how they recalculated things and the like would have been great. Anyway. Rant over. </p>
<p>Haggling with son’s school as well; trying to sort the financial matters out. Bit of a frustration there as well. S entered a rehab facility a bit over a week ago; permitted three phone calls a week now and I guess I should be glad he chose to call me last night. </p>
<p>So, when does the plane/bus/train leave for the spa?</p>
I have been coloring my hair since I found my first batch of gray hairs at the age of 16! My aunts on my dad’s side were all white/silver in their 20s. I usually do it myself every 4 weeks since my hair grows back quickly. I have the salon do foil and color about three times a year so I have some dimensional highlights. I can’t imagine letting my hair go gray. :eek:</p>