My brows just the other day.

So it seems that I always put off brow grooming until my eyebrows start to look like caterpillars hanging out on my face; at that point, I start to feel terribly disheveled and, in a simple word, gross.  I know that I don’t appear that way to others, of course, but I just feel like I’m sprouting hair from every pore, warts all over the place, all split ends and bad hair color, mismatched clothing (not in a good way).  I feel all schleppy.  And did I mention gross?  (all this from just my brows not being groomed.  I’m telling you, it makes a difference!)

I don’t know why I put it off so long.  Time is of the essence, of course, but really it doesn’t take that long for me to zip into Carmen’s, where I have Shiva thread my brows (here’s the yelp review).

Yesterday (finally!), it took me FIFTEEN MINUTES TOTAL—from the time I parked my car a half a block away until I got back INTO the car—for me to have brows and upper lip threaded by Shiva.

FIFTEEN MINUTES, Lovely Readers.  That’s all it took to change my face from caterpillar-y/warty/hair in all pores/gross-ness to groomed and ready to face (literally) the world again.

I definitely should not put it off ever again.  This time, I’m writing it down in my calendar, making space for that FIFTEEN MINUTES.  Space for kicking eyebrow ass and takin’ eyebrow names.

Anyway, let me tell you a little more about Carmen’s.  It’s in Roger’s Park, near Loyola, for all of you Chicagoans, and two different friends both told me about Shiva, saying she was the best threader and eyebrow-er in the city.  At that time, I was paying a huge amount of money ($55) to have my brows plucked at a brow-only salon in Bucktown, which was really really not worth it.

Carmen’s raised their prices for brow threading a few years ago—to $7.

Totally worth the money.  Shiva is amazing.  She makes a perfect brow.

Please note:  I can’t vouch for any other services at Carmen’s, and if you go to the Yelp review, it seems everyone adores the brow threading but other things are spotty; I am all about the brows there, and Shiva is definitely the one to see.

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