While at my local pharmacy yesterday to buy Sudafed 12 Hour, I cut through the beauty products aisle. The tweezer selection made me pause. Revlon alone manufacturers maybe ten different types of tweezers. I studied them keenly.
Approximately 90% of Revlon's tweezers are identified for use on eyes. The other tweezer was for "special" uses, primarily removing ingrown hairs. I found another tweezer online for removing splinters. What I did not see, however, was any mention that ladies use tweezers to pluck out our chin hairs.
What?!?! Did I just spill some sort of horrifying secret? Women pluck chin hairs?!?! Goodness gracious! How gauche to mention aloud, let alone in potentially mixed company!!!! Yes, I am a terrible person. I want to buy tweezers that keep my goatee under control, which is what I mainly use tweezers for. (Once in a while, I pick at my eyebrows, butt mostly they get along on their own splendidly, protecting my eyeballs from debris as eyebrows should.) If such an honest product is ever produced, I will be the first to buy them. My suggested name for these tweezers is "Not By the Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin."
Incidentally, the number of pink tweezers sold on drugstore.com is disturbing. What is it with the fucked up notion that if women use a product, it must be pink? I happen to like pink as much as the next women, but this is ridiculous. If I'm going to yank the hairs out of my chin and jaw, I really don't need a pink tweezer to remind me that I am engaging in an un-womanly activity. Take your pink tweezers, hammers, pots, and whatever and shove them up your pretty pink assholes, you marketing and manufacturing idiots!
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You might want to try these Suzanne.
ReplyDeleteThey are not pink, a bit expensive, but I am told they are about the best there is.
http://www.ccrane.com/more-categories/personal-grooming/rubis-tweezers.aspx
Hi there. I heard someone recently say that the reason tweezers come in leopard print, pink, red (and so on), is so that a woman can find them at the bottom of her pocketbook. The black ones just get lost down there:) But seriously, is anyone whipping out the tweezers in public during the day?
ReplyDeleteI HATE PINK! Except of course for your kickass pink boots and the CUSS background. I find that all metal tweezers have the best grip for yanking chin hairs. The all metal style is also good because the lack of a rubber or plastic grip doesn't allow manufacturers to turn that part pink. LL's point about bright colors making a tweezers easy to find is understandable. However, this particular innnovation is lost on me as I don't carry a purse. LL's point that no one whips out tweezers in public is also very valid. I find that tweezers are really only needed in two locations: in front of the mirror in the room of your house with the brightest light and in your car for plucking chin hair at stoplights.
ReplyDelete-Steph
elf.com has a pretty great tweezer & most all of their stuff (until they just branched into mineral cosmetics) is only a $1. but i don't think they advertise them for chin-tweezing.
ReplyDeletei've got one, lone chin hair that bugs me & i try to keep on top of it. *wanders into bathroom to check it out*
I have 2 or 3 jawline hairs that like to return after I pluck them. I love to pluck my eyebrows but am able to keep the urge under control.
ReplyDeleteChin hairs, and also the big honking hairs that grow on my boobies...
ReplyDeleteDo these tweezers really look any different? What the heck is one for removing splinters? I have a cheapo generic one that seems to remove hairs, splinters and ticks just fine.
ReplyDeleteI am 42 years old and, therefore, the possessor of chin hairs ... like four that need every-three-day-or-so-plucking. I keep a pair of $3.99 Walgreen's tweezers in my car. Natural sunlight is the best!
ReplyDeleteI also have a hideously long black hair that grows out of a mole on my face. It's a mystery hair, though, as it seems to appear overnight. No foreshadowing whatsoever.
Incidentally, I just found your blog and I must say that your CUSS acronym is the funniest/smartest thing I've heard in, oh, about three years.
Good for you!