Eyelash Emergency!

by Granny Girl

I had an appointment last week with a prospective employer. I planned ahead on what to wear and groomed myself with extra care. The night before the meeting I trimmed up my eyebrows. When one gets to a certain age one has to be very vigilant about one's eyebrows. I'm just saying. Mine remind me of Ernest Borgnine's (if you're old enough to get that reference, you're old enough to understand eyebrow troubles!). The gray eyebrow hairs are out of control, and the little fuzzies that grow underneath my brow on my eyelid drive me crazy. So I got out the little electric clippers and start carefully shaving my eyelid. I slipped and took out half my eyelashes!! On my right eye, half were normal length and half were stubs! Thankfully, I have been watching every episode of "What Not To Wear" and I have seen Carmandy (sp?), the make up artist, fix just such problems. Maybe not exactly the same problem, but eyelash problems nonetheless. Anywho,  I went to the beauty supply store and got a set of eyelashes, cut them in half, trimmed them to a normal length and put them on the outside half of each eye. I think I did okay on putting them on. The whole time I was in the meeting I kept worrying that they had slipped, but I was afraid to touch them to check. You can feel them on your eyes and it's so weird! I told a friend about it and she told me she had a friend who wore false eyelashes on a first date. Midway through the date, she went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. One of the eyelashes was on her forehead, looking like a caterpillar! Ha!

There's no moral to this story. I just thought I'd share. :-)