Eyebrow pencils

My mom won't be seen without her eyebrows, even around the house. The women in our family tend to have thin eyebrows, if they have them at all. So Mom draws her eyebrows on before she ever leaves her bedroom.

Last week, when I glanced at my mom, I noticed that something didn't look quite right. The area above her eyes looked iritated, kind of red. I didn't think much of it until later when we sat down for lunch together and I got a closer look.

Her eyebrows were red! Not the typical dark brown like her hair, but red!

Trying not to laugh, I asked her what she'd used to draw her eyebrows that morning, and she told me she used the same pencil she always did.

"I don't think so," I told her. "Your eyebrows are red!"

She started laughing. "I must have grabbed the wrong pencil. But I looked at it and it looked brown like my other ones."

Later I snuck up to her room and found the pencil she had used. It was lipliner!

Yes, the body of the pencil was sort of brown. Her regular Maybelline eyebrown pencil had a red body. So I can see how she'd get confused. Didn't she notice something was amiss when she looked in the mirror as she was drawing them on? Apparently not.

Even after I told her about her red eyebrows, she never bothered to look in the mirror, wash it off, and draw on new brown eyebrows. She just left them like that. She went out to get the mail, waved at the neighbors, all with red eyebrows.

The next day she told me that she'd thrown the offending lipliner away. (Can you tell the difference in the photo above?)