Health and Beauty Tips!
Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 4:46PM 
I don't know what I thought this lady had to do with Beauty Tips. There's just something about the 1950's women that exudes wisdom on all things womanly.
Also, I don't really have "tips" so much as commentary. Which is just as well. I'm not one to offer beauty tips. Heck, I sat on my closet floor for 10 minutes this morning just staring at my clothes in the hope that something new would appear.
Nothing did.
So my beauty commentary is about my chin hair, Beverly. I don't really like Beverly but since she's a loner and doesn't come around too often I have tolerated her presence for many years now. My biggest complaint about Beverly is that I never know when she's going to appear and when she does I'm always somewhere out and about without tweezers so I have to walk around with my chin in my hand feigning surprise until I can get back home.
This pose works too.
Again, wise and womanly. You'd never guess that she is trying to hide a chin hair named Beverly.
A few days ago it occurred to me that I hadn't seen Beverly in a while so I went looking for her. A bright light and a mirror turned up quite a shock.
Beverly has turned gray.
Guess what is worse than finding a gray hair on your head?
Finding one anywhere else.
I mean, I guess it's good that Beverly is a less noticeable color. She'll be less embarrassing when she turns up, in the middle of the day, already 1/4 inch long. But then . . . really? A gray hair? On my chin?
Good gravy.
I may have to change Beverly's name to Ethel.
Oh and my health tip?
Do not bring Girl Scout cookies into your house. I would tell you not to buy them at all, but sometimes it's very hard to resist those cute little faces.
When you get the box though, hand it off to the nearest passerby. Open it and set it on the table in the company break room. Leave it as a tip for your waitress.
But do not bring it home.
Because once a box of Samoas enters my house?
I am not responsible for what happens next.
Reader Comments (12)
Gone. Gone. Gone. That's what happens. But for me it's the Thin Mints. :)
Unwanted body hair is a bane. Actually, is there such a thing as wanted body hair? Does the head count? haha I guess not having eyebrows would not be good.
If you have only a Beverly be grateful. I have all the Betty's in Nebraska on mine.
Congrats. I am now craving Girl Scout Cookies. Yum.
samoa's...oh how i love them! but why is that girl scout popping her leg out? that bothers me. now i don't want emmie to be a girl scout anymore. not if she has to sell cookies standing like that. as for bev (can i call her that?), i think it is definitely a good thing that she is gray. and i speak as an expert on the subject. when i am too old to see to tweeze my chin, i will be able to have a second career as the bearded lady in the circus. it's so depressing. thanks for making me smile...every time i read your blog or see you or think of you. (that was another one of my awkward and desperate "i love you" comments on your blog. i know i can delete it, but it's making me laugh at myself so i'll leave it)
I am soooo glad of three things:
Your blog
Not having chin hair (no offense)
Being gluten intolerant and having a good excuse to say NO! to those girl scouts!!
I brought 2 boxes of Tagalogs or is it Tagalongs...whatever it is, I ate both boxes in a week just to get rid of those things!! I have ZERO self control when it comes to them..ZERO!
thank you for consistently making me laugh.
I haven't hit that point when I an comfortable discussing the many difficulites and hurdles to grooming in my life, and I don't know that I ever will, but I know that I have been cursed by heredity when my father comments after visiting my grandmother that 'her beard looked especially bad today."
I'm doomed . . ..
Cute post! Bummer about the chin hair. Good luck with that! :)
My husband thought I had chest hair:
http://thelumberjackswife.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/a-monday-story-for-you/
So, that was fab.
Those are my favorite girl scout cookies. The samoas. De-lish.
My poor mother. She once had a student ask her if she was a witch because of her pointy nose and chin hair.
I wholeheartedly agree. WIth all of it. Only, my gray hair lives selfishly on my head. And no matter how diligent I am about pulling it from its lifesource it keeps coming back. She's a real viper. =)
Mindy
www.thesuburbanlife.com
Little late to this post but being as it's about unwanted hair you know I could not pass this up.
Ethel I LOVE IT! Having Alopecia and not having any hair on my head,brows, or eyelashes I have to say this too scares me. I will not list the places I do grow hair but lets just say because I usually do not grow any I end up with like a 2inch hair somewhere and I'm always in public when one of my children yells out, GROSS mom you have a really HUGE hair on the back of your thigh. Ummmm thanks honey. SMACK. Why do they do this?????
Also one day I was driving and came to a red light, I guess because of the natural light I looked down and sure enough I had a hairy knee. I have no hair where I need it but I have a hairy knee. Really I ask God, do you think this is funny?