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At the Fashion Week Boutique held in the W Hotel on Saturday afternoon, we boldly faced one of our longtime fears: professional eyebrow shaping. We've seen too many overplucked, scraggly, arc-like slivers to ever have trusted our eyebrows to anyone else before now. But when we spotted Kimberly Jones' mobile eyebrow rescue unit in the corner, a wave of daring washed over us. We did it. We asked Kimberly to give us Eyebrows To Die For.
As we sat secretly praying that we hadn't made a grave mistake, Kimberly gently talked us through her process which began with powdering our skin before applying wax. The wax removal felt like ripping off a band-aid, but Kimberly's professionalism and pleasant bedside manner distracted us from the sting. After some detailed trimming and tweezing, we were scared to look in the mirror, but when we did we were delighted. Less is more! Kimberly now has us hooked -- does this make us high maintenance? We'll definitely be visiting the Ringolevio Salon at 2660 Gough for more of Kim's brow magic.
We breezed past the rest of the cosmetics and beauticians to check out the fashion. One of our favorite finds was local designer Wendy Wagner's Orange Button line of t-shirts, skirts, bags, hoodies and more, featuring simple yet bold colors and graphics. You can shop Orange Button online or at December's Appel and Frank sample sale.
Another standout was Cookie and the Dude's table, which represented several bay area designers. Cookie designer Helen Fawcett was selling her colorful cotton headbands, handbags, wallets and belts, and had also set up shelves featuring screen printed shirts and hoodies by miele fresca, Sharon Spain, and New Leaf Clothing. We loved Sharon Spain's 3/4 sleeve ballet neck T's with intricate line drawings of flowers screened on them. Candystore carries her designs in San Francisco. We were also impressed by New Leaf's creative screen prints.
We picked up a ballet neck long-sleeved T in soft organic cotton by Regan Durst out of Yuba City, and an adorable pendant by Ole Lukoe out of LA. Unfortunately neither designer has her website up and running (tsk tsk!), so keep an eye out for them in the future. Whether you were in the market for fashion, jewelry, a unique photo album, a fancy tote for your yoga mat or eyebrows to die for, Fashion Week Boutique offered some great selections.
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I was a recent eyebrow convert too, and had been going to the "Brow Bar" at Macy's in their Benefit cosmetics section. But then I decided to get them done while at my hair salon, and it was so. Much. Nicer! Instead of sitting up in a chair, with people on the street staring in through the windows, I got to lie down in a nice little room, with calming music playing, while a lovely woman massaged my brows. And then ripped the hair from my face!
Even the wax itself seemed a lot nicer, not leaving my face red and puffy for the rest of the day like it did at the other place. And all for the same price as Macy's!
Now I think about all the years I walked around with unseemly eyebrows, and I just cringe.