剃眼眉
Posted by: readandeat on: 七月 10, 2008
有一次經過一家印度人開的美容店，店內的電視機重覆播著幾個鏡頭：拉線修眉。
我天生粗眉大眼，像綠林好漢，所以不喜歡人家擺弄自己的眉毛。香港的美容院，美容師會用拉線修面毛，這是一種古老的美容方法，但沒見過香港人用拉線修眉毛。
後來有一天，有一位香港朋友來看我。我忽然興起去試拉線修眉念頭，朋友竟然願意一同去試﹗
我們走進美容店，那些服務員用奇異的眼光望著我們，可能華人是不會上他們的店吧。我們也用同樣的眼光回望她們。只見她們重新埋首，在顧客的額上拉動一條幼線。心想：死就死吧。
把心一橫，我們鼓起勇氣嘗試。還是朋友較勇敢，她首先坐下來，另一位服務員叫我一起坐下，我說要先看看。她有點不屑地走開。
服務員先在朋友的眼眉上塗上藥膏，然後含著一根線，開始有節奏地上下拉動，只見朋友的眼角微微跳動，我問她：「痛不痛？」她皺起眉頭說：「痛。」我吞了一下口水，心裡感到更害怕。不是怕痛，而是怕不知弄成甚麼樣子。
只見線起毛落，拉了一陣，眉毛灑了一臉，朋友的眼圈都紅了，我看了也感心痛。不消十分鐘，終於完成了。
服務員拿鏡子給朋友看，她看了又看，不知是喜還是悲。服務員接著叫我坐下來，我多番強調：「只是清除雜毛，不要改眉型，不要給我的眉毛弄幼。」她說：「你喜歡幼的話，我可以把它弄幼。」我連忙說：「不要弄幼，千萬不要弄幼﹗」我怕她不明白，說了很多遍，才放心坐下來。
我閉起眼來，其實心裡很擔心，希望出來的效果不致太驚人。
我感到一條線在眉毛上劃來劃去，夾雜著一絲絲痛楚，接著是眉毛掉到鼻子上，痕癢非常。拉完了上眉毛，跟著拉下眉毛，那兒的雜毛似乎很多，我感到那條線在眉眼間來回拉動，痛楚加劇，拉到眉端，更有想哭出來的感覺，一顆眼淚在眼角轉來轉去。
拉完右眉，接著是左眉，又是一陣痛楚。好容易拉完了，我定神一看，嗯，效果也不錯呀，眉毛形狀也很自然，整個面孔的輪廓也改變了。
我環顧四周，理髮院坐滿了等修眉的女人，看來這種剃眼眉生意也很受歡迎。雖然有點痛，還要付錢受皮肉之苦，但是，只要看看自己的眉毛，甚麼痛楚也忘記了。
唉，女人就是愛美麗。
23 Responses to "剃眼眉"
七月 10, 2008 at 10:38 am
Thanks for sharing your experience! Not sure what 拉線修眉 is called in English?
The closest I came to your experience was getting my eyebrows waxed when I was at a spa in London a few Christmases ago. It’s not really painful but again, you have to place total trust in the beauty therapist. Mine turned out okay I guess, though a little on the skinny side, and for a week or so I have to get used to seeing my reflections in the mirror as I kinda looked as if I were always arching my eyebrows even when I wasn’t! So now I just do my own eyebrow plucking, at least that way I have total control.
七月 10, 2008 at 12:01 pm
aulina：
哈，我最喜歡拿黑頭針幫人擠黑頭，很有滿足感。 
snowdrops,
It’s called eyebrow threading. Some high-end spa charge you US$12 but the Indian one only US$5.
Here you can find more information about it.
http://www.freewebs.com/eyebrowthreadingqueen/
七月 11, 2008 at 1:47 am
等我試吓先, 在美國做facial好貴, 加上又有件貼身膠布(小公主), 都無時間去做, 這個eyebrow threading啱呀, 幾分鐘就OK, 多謝好介紹。
七月 11, 2008 at 4:56 am
哈哈哈!
女人就係咁,只要靚,乜都得!
天氣好凍,啲人着好少衫,好短既裙,都話唔凍。
啲新娘,着件晚裝/婚紗,成個心口,膊頭露晒出黎,都話唔凍!
其實,都係因一個『靚』字!
(我都係咁!哈哈哈!)
七月 11, 2008 at 4:14 pm
菲妮媽：
去印度人開的店才便宜，否則幾貴。
翼：
其實之前我也不敢肯定你是男是女(哈﹗)，我喜歡自己用黑頭針針清黑頭(如果有)，用手擠好容易弄傷皮膚，到時有痂。
zacharyhui：
咁凍著咁少衫我又唔會，想凍死咩。
imak：
我畫了眉的話更似大盜/通緝犯。
七月 12, 2008 at 11:28 am
At least Mila you have that kind of shop in Canada, whereas we don’t have anything like it over here 
七月 12, 2008 at 8:44 pm
snowdrops,
oh i guess Irelnd’s population is not very diversed like in Canada or US?
七月 13, 2008 at 6:04 am
我和上面的imak一樣,見人的話最低限度會畫眉,整個人就精神起來了
我修眉好幾年了,可惜到現在都受不了那種痛
唉
有沒有無痛的美麗方法呢?
七月 13, 2008 at 11:55 pm
>其實之前我也不敢肯定你是男是女(哈﹗)
哈哈！
點解我次次都會令人puzzle架呢？
其實我又咪之前果個亦
不過你可能唔記得囉
必必媽咪就會清楚d :p
＞我喜歡自己用黑頭針針清黑頭(如果有)
係媽咪度囉過一支黎用
都係覺得幾痛架
都係雙手靈巧d
＞用手擠好容易弄傷皮膚，到時有痂。
可能我面皮厚掛(呵呵)
細個就試過整到有痂
後來重變埋一粒麥添
不過我又唔係咁介意就算喇
之後就再冇d咁既事喇
七月 15, 2008 at 9:01 am
菲妮媽：
我也給一元小費，加埋六元。超值。
mila：
嘩，有點貴喎。可能這裡供應過盛，大家鬥平。
snowdrops,
Yes, same as Mila said.
leona：
這種方法不錯，也有點痛。拔眉打麻藥就好似誇張些。少少痛啫。
翼：
我記得你是大隻亦。不過，你張相片忽男忽女，有時不敢肯定。哈。必必媽媽見過咁多人，肯定清楚啦。
伯母原來好貪靚喎。對，黑頭有時會變痣，我有幾粒痣都係咁樣走出嚟的。有一粒仲怪，十多年後自動消失。
七月 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Sorry only remember to check back here now. Yes to answer your question Mila (and R&E?) [and sorry to have to put on boring lecturer tone again] Ireland is not really a diverse society precisely because it wasn’t established as an immigrant country like the US or Canada. Sure it had its Vikings invasion millenia ago and sure the English came centuries ago, but on the whole it’s been a pretty monocultural country until less than 10 years ago, when the so-called Celtic Tiger economy brought lots of Indian engineers, Malaysian doctors, mainland Chinese students, as well as many African asylum seekers over here. There really isn’t any pockets of ethnic communities here, I guess, with the exception of the minuscule version of “Chinatown” – a few streets in the city centre populated by mainland Chinese stores. There are a handful of Indian restaurants here and there, but there is not at all an Anglo-Indian community like you’d find in the UK.
So yes, sadly there isn’t any of the kind of ethnic beauty treatment salons like you’d have in the States and Canada.
[and okay, I really need to get off the subject of Ireland, I don't even talk about it that much on my own blog and I sincerely don't want to bore people to death here on your blog R&E]
七月 15, 2008 at 2:26 pm
snowdrops,
Oh, I forgot to tell you that I like traditional Irish music(folk music?). It is really heart touching and make you terribly home-sicked.
My Irish neighbor gave my daughter a gift (drawing board) yesterday.
七月 16, 2008 at 2:06 pm
你真勇敢.痛到幾乎掉淚似乎真的很痛.我也是眉粗眼大,以前沒耐性修眉,乾脆用剃刀剃眼眉.最近忽然心痕,去美容院修,修過之後,發現不能返轉頭, 因為真是對面容影響很大,朋友說我成個樣唔同左,我覺得主要係無咁惡.
七月 17, 2008 at 1:01 pm
How sweet that your neighbour gave Ah Bao the drawing board
Generally I don’t really like traditional Irish music, it’s great to dance to (as in ceili dancing which is a lot of fun) but I can’t stand just plain listening to it. But I do think some of it reminds me oh-so-very-much of Chinese folk music! But alas, I’m not a particular fan of Chinese folk music either…
七月 18, 2008 at 12:43 pm
snowdrops,
well, actually it’s kiind of like folk song. We have some at home. Next time I’ll check the names for you.
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七月 10, 2008 at 5:38 am
和擠黑頭一樣，二十萬個討厭！