The Price Of Beauty, Pain
Monday, September 29, 2008
I have a very low threshold of pain.
For the first time in my seventeen.point.five years of life, i experienced threading, the removal of unwanted facial hair. And god it was painful! Well it's understandable since it was my first time, they say it gets better after that, but i really wonder if i'll have enough courage to want to do it again. By the end of the session, i was practically in tears.
I started off with biting on my fingers, and than it was kicking myself because my hand was obstructing the person, and than eventually i just started tearing, abit. A 10minute process became 40minutes because i kept stopping the person whenever i felt a sharp pain, which is probably once every few strokes she makes with the thread. Every single stroke was like having a knife slicing at my skin(at first,really). Again and again and again. But it's true, it does get better. After the hair of a certain area gets removed, you stop feeling the pain. And your skin feels smoother, and fairer too.
Luckily for my eyebrows, they shaved it instead of pluck it. If it was the latter, hohoho... I don't care if shaving means the "brow-hair" will grow back faster, i just don't want to feel the pain. I've tried it once (plucking, the week during prom last year) and i'm never going through the same process again. Anyway shaving's practically painless, and a lot faster =) which suits me well.
But come to think of it, if threading and plucking of your brows are already this painful, what about people who goes through waxing? I can NEVER understand why women subject themselves to such tortures just to look better for awhile, only for the beauty to fade away after a few short years, or months, or weeks, or days! Whatever happened to inner-beauty, The one that will stay with you forever?
I know i know, having said all that, i still did rebonding, plucking/shaving of my brows (twice) and threading (FIRST time only okay). But i did what i did today only because my mum had a free package deal and she didn't want to waste it (I wouldn't have tried it myself). After all, no harm trying right? But i'll stop at these three. I'm all for natural beauty :) so plastic surgery of any kind is out for me. Sure, you'll look beautiful after that, but the process of recovery and the pain that goes with it, send shivers down my spine. And this is why im not getting braces, yet. It hurts, and imagine the ulcers that comes with it. Arrrr...
Anyway, being pretty doesn't make you a better person. But being a better person makes you pretty (me thinks.) I'm not saying that all pretty people are mean (though some really are) la, there are ugly-but-unkind people out there too (and their unkindness just made them uglier by a million times)! I guess, what i'm saying is, outer-beauty isn't everything. What's the point of being pretty when people recoil from your personality? All you've gotta do is, be yourself, be kind to others, and let your pretty-ness shine from within :) Though being pretty does give you certain advantages.. that the average and below takes harder to achieve.. OK! Back to topic! LOL
As for painless beauty treatments such as manicures (i've done it either once, or twice only la), i only go for colours like light pink HAHA nothing outrageous for me, so it's kinda wasted. And if im doing it myself (hardly) it's TRANSPARENT LOL i just like the shine =) I've never done padicure because i'm almost always in covered shoes.
Lol but i do wash my face daily and apply toner (sometimes) because i don't like pimples, and i enjoy facial masks once in awhile =) I like the hydrated freshness and the smoothness after that. But yeah, that's about all i do, if anything, to improve slightly on the way i look. And i don't apply make-up, at all. I'm not gonna say i won't in the future, because i probably have to, for work and all. But given a choice, i would rather not LOL Bleah, let's stick with simplicity :)
Oh god, why am i not born pretty?
But i'm still beautiful in my own way ;) *buck-tooth-smile*
Oh and nick and ta wanted to surprise me at work today :D but today was my off-day :( But i appreciate the thought though :) Try again next time! =P
~(8:25 PM)
