A Pampered Weeked
Well, it was a rainy cold weekend here in Beijing. So, instead of just staying at home in front of the television listening to Tagalog, watching DVDs, or playing with my computers, I decided to get out and do a bit of, well, pampering. Or, to be more precise, self-cleanup.
So, this weekend I got, in no particular order, the following done:
- Haircut
- Manicure
- Pedicure
- Eyebrow shaping
- Ear-hair removal
Okay, lemme address the eyebrow shaping. The unibrow gene runs strong in my family. Yep, it'd cross my nose in a bushy mess if I didn't do something about it. And, well, since I'm not lucky enough to be a Russian Cosmonaut, I do something about it.
Folks in the States would do this by tweezing and waxing. Here, it is done only by using tweezers. I think I have a fairly high tolerance for pain (and sometimes enjoy it), but lemme tell you the area above my eyelids hurts like damnation when they pluck it. Argh. Make it stop.
The ear-hair removal was actually done as part of the eyebrow shaping. For those youngsters out there who might be questioning what this is or why it might be needed, well, just wait.
Sooner or later, you'll also start to sprout your own little forest around your ear canal.
