I shave.
Some of you seemed to really enjoy my "morning glory" pictures. If you liked those then I imagine you will appreciate this as well. From time to time I have to shave my mustache. I really only started doing this within the past few years. I was driving in the car and looked in the rear view mirror. You know when the lighting is just right and you can see every flaw on your face? Well, that is what happened to me, but in this case I saw a mustache. I was so embarrassed because right at that moment it was like HELLO HEATHER YOU HAVE A MUSTACHE! I was on my way to work and didn't have time to run back home and shave the sucker off. I was paranoid my entire shift that all people saw when they were talking to me was my mustache. And oh my goodness, what in the world would Jon think? Had he seen my mustache (which by the way was probably hairier then anything he could ever grow) and just hadn't said anything? From that day on I have shaved the hairy caterpillar off my face. It's not like I have to do it on a daily basis. I am not Sasquatch people, I don't get 5 o'clock shadow, but every now and then there are some dark brown stubs that need to go. Now Jon and I joke about it. He'll say to me, "Heather WE need to shave." And then, there we are, standing in front of the bathroom mirror, shaving cream on our upper lips, with razors in hand. Now that is a picture to see.
Like Mother, like daughter I guess! I have a gotee (sp) which I shave periodically!! IT SUCKS!
ReplyDeleteThe problem is, the hairs get harder and blacker with time! I'm serious! They say that hair is the only thing that keep growing after your dead so I'm afraid on resurrection day I'm gonna look like Rumplestilskin! Ahh, the joys of being a woman!
Oh sweetie. I'm right there with ya. Gotta love dark hair huh! At least people know we don't die our hair brown. But, have you ever tried surgi-cream or something like that. It removes the hair WITHOUT making it come back harder and coarser. You shoul try it. Beats shaving!
ReplyDeleteYou are funny, Heather! I like the mention of Jon not shaving much. We are not a very hairy family (sorry boys!) :)
ReplyDeleteYou crack me up!!!! Love the process you did on your photo-- that is so fun! I need you to teach me how to animate my photos like that. WAY fun effect! I'm much hairier than my hubbs too. Interesting how that works, eh?
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness Heather!!!! You have broken the cardinal rule of woman's hair removal! You can't SHAVE your stache! It grows back more coursely. We all have them, you just have to wax them, or get the little hair trimmer. You keep this up you WILL have 5 oclock shadow! Wax on. Wax off my friend.
ReplyDeleteGreat pic. You are hilarious.
I love your posts. Brings a smile to my face every time. Great stuff. :)
ReplyDeleteHeather you make me laugh and you are very brave to make a post like that. Your right Jon has always had a baby's butt face but I have NEVER noticed any trace of mustache on you!
ReplyDeleteI have to pluck about 4 hairs off my chin. SICK!!! I always feel mu chin to see if I feel the "tuft" and then if I do and Im out I am so insicure about people noticing, I feel like theres a spotlight right on the chin. maybe Ill grow them out and braid them. AHHHHHHHH!
ReplyDeleteits true about the saving part. When I was lazy Id shave inbetween my eyebrows and a gal at college saw me doing it and she freaked out. She said if I kept it up Id have a UNI. So I quit that and just plucked.
Hey remember when we visited your dad's ex wife and she was waxing her upper lip? I remember she was using a blue bottle.
Heather you are awesome! I love how you have no shame when the rest of us lie and try to hide it. I have a small mole on the left of my upper lip (I like to think of it as my "Cindy Crawford beauty mark"), but there are always little dark hairs that grow on it, and Cory always makes fun of me when he catches me plucking them. The things girls have to do to "maintain" themselves!
ReplyDeleteThat is TOOOO funny Heather! I commend you for being so open to that subject. I TOO need to shave there. It's something I've been doing for 7 years now? I'm like you though, every once in a while. I t hink I noticed it when.. well someone pointed it out to me in grade school. Although, I know Chris has spotted it a few times, Thanksgiving too I think. But I denied it completly! Glad to know that I'm not by myself in this one. Seems there are a few of us ladies that have to do it... Love ya!
ReplyDeleteThat is TOOOO funny Heather! I commend you for being so open to that subject. I TOO need to shave there. It's something I've been doing for 7 years now? I'm like you though, every once in a while. I t hink I noticed it when.. well someone pointed it out to me in grade school. Although, I know Chris has spotted it a few times, Thanksgiving too I think. But I denied it completly! Glad to know that I'm not by myself in this one. Seems there are a few of us ladies that have to do it... Love ya!
ReplyDeleteOh my word - you're in such good company! Confound that driving-in-the-sun mirror effect!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm lucky (but my bro's not) that our family is pretty blond and peach-fuzzy on the face... but every once in a while, OY, out come the tweezers. And there's this one stupid long nose hair once in a while... at any rate, I'm much more confident tweezing, since I'm a little, hmm... uncoordinated?, and that way there's no nicking. I've debated waxing, too, since brow waxes aren't too bad... and they makes me feel so "maintained" on that rare occasion, LOL. But like I said, there's that whole "uncoordinated" thing, which makes me nervous.
FWIW, I don't think shaving actually makes the hair become darker or thicker. My understanding is that it just leaves a blunt end, which is more obvious with dark hair. And I did shave my arm when I was younger, which hasn't had any ill effect at all. Not thicker, not darker. Like your mom said, it's a function of time. (Although to quiet the "hairy death" fears, I've also learned that hair does stop growing pretty soon after you're dead, anyway, just like other functions that don't always grind to a screeching halt; and the reason nails and hair look longer is because the skin recedes. There's my gross-out contribution to the day :-).
Anyway, you are very, VERY brave!!! :-) LOVE YOU!!! :-)
You better throw that razor away and start waxing. It's really easy to do. I've never waxed my lip, but I love to wax the hairs off my toes! The whole mustache thing must run in the family. From the sounds of it, your mothers side. lol Luckily, I will never have to worry about being hairier than Scott. Plumper, yes, but not hairier. Anyways, I have never noticed the stache you speak of... I've only noticed your beautiful complexion! I am so jealous!
ReplyDeleteHILARIOUS. And I love everyone's comments!
ReplyDeleteWell at least you're not the only one. Although I definitely recommend waxing...much much softer and takes a lot longer to grow back.
ReplyDeletei buzz. love you.
ReplyDeleteu are hilarious. i love you.
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