I stopped by the mall on my way home from work and decided to get my eyebrows threaded. This was a bold move for me considering the last time I did so they also colored my eyebrows and I left the salon looking like Bozo the Clown.
The threader asked if I wanted a particular shape and I bravely said, “Do what you think is best.” She immediately began twisting and doubling her thread and my eyebrows were done in about five minutes. “You want lip?” she asked in a rather rhetorical way. Whenever someone is that close to your face and ‘asking’ if you’d like maintenance, you best do it.
Thus, a few seconds later, I was contorting my lips as modeled by the threader. “You do this before?” she asked me, twice, while threading. “Yes, but not here,” I replied, twice. When she finished threading she told me, “You have good lip. Not sensitive. Usually, everybody very squirm.” “Thank you,” I responded and added, “Many have said that I have a stiff upper lip and now you have confirmed it.”
My threader continued to chat with me, telling me she gets her lips and brows threaded by her coworker and threads everything else herself. “Everything?” I asked. “Everything,” she said and giggled. It appears she, too, has a stiff upper lip.