I give myself half the blame for this lackluster experience.
I hadn't made an appointment with my girl Alvira over at Hair Images Salon in Atlanta, and didn't wanna risk the wait for her at noon on a Saturday, since I was in a rush to get to Savannah. I figured hey, I'll just drop by the mall once I'm there, and still make it to where I have to be on time; if they do a good job, I know I'll have a place to go when I'm here.
The fact that this is a kiosk and not a storefront should have deterred me from jump, but hey, I'm adventurous. The second thing that should have stopped me was the ridiculous line and only two chairs/threaders. Luckily there was a sign-in clipboard so that I didn't have to clothesline anybody who dared to jump their place in line.
I knew that threading is a fairly new thing to Savannah, but some people behaved as if the kiosk was a combination National Geographic exhibit/petting zoo. Many people stopped and stared as people were getting serviced, and more than a few were gauche enough to come stand over the threader and client---like close enough to breathe on them! Look, I have personal space issues as it is, and I have to mentally prepare myself for the threader to be up in my grill... what the hell do I want some random person wandering in the mall JUST as close to me for? Hell naw. Still, I was gonna get my brows threaded.
After a half hour, I was finally seated and got into a mini-spat with my threader, who insisted that I had scar tissue on my brow ( I don't, never have, and have never had any trauma there in order to get any; the bare skin was the line of demarcation from where my arch is usually defined by every other threader I've been to). I should have just gotten up right then but I was desperate to have my brows groomed; they were a mess! I also had to instruct her to not allow anyone to get near me while being threaded, as I'd observed it happen to other clients. I mean WTF. Why should I even have to say that? Anyway...
The final analysis is that she ( the younger of the pair) is not a very experienced threader... my brows were not shaped well, and to be on the safe(er) side, I let her take too much off, because I knew I could at least fill my browns in and shape them, as opposed to her not taking enough off, and looking just as bad as before I sat in the chair. They didn't look awful, but it was not among the better brow jobs I've had anywhere.
I won't be back. read more