Brow Down

I was in one of the malls on Sunday. [That in itself is so rare that it is almost blogworthy. But wait, there's more!] So as I walked along I noticed a store with a good size video screen in the window. Well, it was shiny and flashy and caught my attention so I looked at the name of the store: Brow Art. The huh?

They were showing a video of what I have come to learn is called eyebrow threading. Rather than tweezing or waxing or lasering or whatever form of medieval torture you prefer for contouring hairy bits, this place uses twisted threads to pull hairs out, follicle and all. [The video is not yet posted on their website as I write this, but there's a lot missing on the website. Not a great recommendation for any business in my book.] Aside from being a little creeped out watching an extreme close-up video of someone being threaded right there next to the eyeball, I’m thinking “mall rent is notoriously expensive and they can stay open just doing this?” I am in the wrong line of work. Besides, other than keeping enough space to avoid a unibrow I pretty much leave my brows alone.

Plus also too and another thing, THAT reminded me of a Saturday Night Live skit. All the stores in the mall were going out of business except one. All it sold was Scotch Tape, but all the other stores were coming in to buy tape to put up their “going out of business” signs.

I’ll be surprised if Brow Art is the last store to vacate the mall, unless everyone is coming in to get groomed for job interviews elsewhere….