Oh woe is moi

I've just been to the torture chamber and back, as I said I am leaving for Pondicherry this evening and as usual I left every thing till the end. Sorry boys but if you don’t want to hear about my hair raising episode at the parlour turn away now. You have been warned.

Basically been stuck in Kodai results in the hunt for the elusive parlour which can remove hair in the most painless way. And in this quest, too put it mildly - it has not been painless.

The latest of the horror stories comes from a parlour named blossoms. I was in a hurry and really needed to get my eye brows and upper lip done! You could see this lady was nervous, her hands were shaking while putting the powder on. I should have taken it as a sign and run away as soon as possible.

But I stayed on.. She started on my eye brows and decided the fastest way to remove the hair would be to rip it out of my eyebrows slowly and one at a time. She was so nervous of ruining the shape she spent 15 minutes on each brow. 15 minutes - I have had my brows and upper lip done in less time.

After spending 15 minutes on the one brow, she finally hands me the mirror for my inspection and to my horror there were still fine hairs! I just gave up, told her to shift to the next eye brow. What was she doing for 15 minutes - pulling the layers of skin off my face??

She then shifted onto my lips. Now the woman will know this, but you know how when your getting your eye brows done, some times one of the people will stretch your forehead, while you stretch your eye lid. Well that I am use too... but for the first time in my threading life have I had some one trying to stretch my lips.

Now visualize if you can, I am on the chair slouched down, facing the ceiling, a woman standing over me with thread in her mouth, slowly ripping each hair from my upper lip, while her little minion some how manages to squeeze through and stretch my upper lip. Now talk about a scary sight.

I told her to hurry up, cos the faster you do it, the less pain you feel. Don’t think she could grasp the concept, cos it took 20 minutes for upper lip to be done. On top of that because she was nervous she was breathing heavily, I felt I was getting threaded by Darth Vadar :)

Note to self : Never go to Blossoms
Till the next torture chamber .. Au reviour