Facials, Makeup, and Waxing, Oh my!

We are in the tail end of our book work at school and this is exciting on a couple different levels.  One is that we get to spend more time doing practical things like working on our mannequins and on each other.  The other is that we won't have to write out such exciting questions as "True or False - It is important to ask your client what they want."  We have now completed our facial, make up, and waxing chapters.  Facials are interesting, I find myself to be fairly comfortable giving them.  I have never had a problem giving massages and my soft hands have been cultivated from years of avoiding physical labor and sitting on my butt and clicking a mouse for the last seven years.  Receiving them is a different story, I am not a huge fan of having my face touched.  I could blame that on being slapped around as a kid to garner some sympathy at this point of the blog but I am happy to say that I was not abused as a child.  "Carol" gave me my facial and didn't do a bad job but she is a little bit more rough around the edges then I am.  She is a farm girl at heart, does farm work, has horses, gets up before the crack of dawn just to intimidate the sun every day...  She got better as she went along but at first it was like she was punching me with her thumbs and I was getting worked over inside the UFC octagon.

Make up was next and I am not ashamed to say that this was the most awkward thing I have encountered at school.  The girls in the room all seemed to be communicating in their own language that I simply didn't understand.  I nodded when I thought I should and tried to fake my way through it, not letting on how lost I was.  A couple of the senior students were kind enough to be our models and I immediately apologized to the one that drew me.  I find its much less awkward to apologize up front rather than after you have made someone look like a clown.  I dabbed, I brushed, I blushed, I lined, I blended, I did it all....  Awkwardly.  My number one goal was to not stab the young lady in the cornea and do serious damage.

luckily I accomplished my goal!  No (permanent) damage was done.

Next up is waxing.  I am not sure who came up with the idea of putting hot wax on your body hair and then ripping it off but I am pretty sure alcohol was involved.  This too is one of those that is better to give then to receive.  I am not ashamed to say that this was my first waxing and I had my eyebrows done.  It hurt!  Probably not as bad as the poor girl who's lip I attempted to wax or as bad as the girl in the video we had to watch who got a bikini wax.

I read a while back about some guys in Ireland who were raising money for charity by waxing each other.  One drunk guy decided he was going to one up his friends and go for a full Brazilian.  Keep in mind there was not a professional in the bunch and that this fundraiser took place in a bar.  Anyway, one of his friends ended up taking off 7 layers of skin off of one his "boys".  That waxing was followed up by a trip to the hospital where doctors were able to laugh at him and barely save his testicle.

(this is where I normally search google and insert picture but in order to keep the blog PG we will skip it this time)

Needless to say, I am glad we don't do that type of waxing at the school.