I Did Something Dumb…

I Did A Dumb Thing | I Did Something Dumb

Y’all, I did something dumb… Thankfully, it’s not something irreversible but it’s something dumb nonetheless. I seem to have a superhuman pull towards bad decisions and you’ll see that in what I’m about to share.

Dumb thing #1:

I’ve been waxing my own eyebrows for a few months now because who has the time and money to get them done professionally. So far, it had gone well enough. But a few days ago my eyebrows looked quite shabby and I decided to wax them in the few minutes I had. I thought, I’ve been doing this for a while now I can do it quickly and get it over with.

Dumb thing #2:

I rushed myself and ended up getting the wax on fine on one eyebrow but it got on too much of my other eyebrow.

Dumb thing #3:

Instead of gently removing the wax with an oil based cleanser as you’re supposed to do in that situation (AND I KNEW THAT) I was like I’ll just rip it off it’ll just take out a couple hairs it’s not supposed to. Yeah, no. It took off half my freaking eyebrow.

And now I’m sitting here, typing this with only one and a half eyebrows on my face. Learn from my mistakes, don’t decide to wax your eyebrows last minute for funsies and just use the oil based cleanser if you do accidentally get the wax on hair you don’t want to remove.

Thankfully, I’m Indian so my eyebrows will be back to normal in two weeks or maybe less. But did you think I wouldn’t take a picture and share it on here? Of course I will! Here you go, can you guess which eyebrow is only 0.5% there lol?

I Did Something Dumb
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149 responses to “I Did Something Dumb…”

  1. You’re still looking cute. I shaved a bit of mine and then had to use eyebrow pencil to fill in.

    1. Aw thanks so much. Yeah, it happens I’ve been filling mine in with pencil too till it grows back.

      1. You’re welcome. Like men have accidents with mustaches, we have accidents with eyebrows. It’s okay.

        1. Yup, exactly.

          1. 😅😅😅

  2. lol!!!….don’t know if you follow house goes home, but this would be the second most funny thing I’ve read in a blog……and yes I have tried to trim my own hair…never ends out well

    1. Lol glad you got a laugh out of it, I did too. Yup, best leave it to the professionals.

  3. It’s your right side near your nose. Best guess! You are so cute, Pooja! ❤️💕

    1. It’s towards the end on the right side but close enough haha! Aw thanks so much you’re too sweet! 😊❤️

      1. Okay, I was close! You are welcome, Pooja. ❤️

  4. Quantez Xihuitl Avatar
    Quantez Xihuitl

    Your eyebrows are ok, you look fine. I am wondering if the upside-down elephants are supposed to be squids?

    1. Nope just normal floating upside-down elephants 😅

  5. I am sorry, Pooja, for the mishap with your brow. Your photo looks great. You did well to try. I would not be that brave.

    1. Thanks so much, usually it goes well but I may have gotten overconfident lol.

      1. You are most welcome Pooja. Blessings to you.

        1. Thanks and to you as well.

          1. Thank you Pooja!

            1. You’re most welcome!

  6. Haha, you still look fine from a short distance. Iv’e done SO many dumb things over the years but live and learn. But that expression on your face, Pooja!

    1. Lol thanks. Haha the expression gives away my annoyance doesn’t it! 😅

  7. Looks okay to me

    1. Thanks, yeah and it’s fine when I go out since I fill it in.

  8. Before I even saw your caption saying to ignore your hair, I was thinking that your hair was so badass. And regardless of losing part of that eyebrow, you’re still pretty! 💖

    Somehow I’ve trained myself to be able to trim up most of my hair by myself. But, I still need to learn how to do my top hair properly, and then I’ll be good at doing it all by myself. Lol!

    1. Aw thank you, my hair has a mind of its own these days but it’s fine when I style it 😅
      Ooh that’s so cool, your hair always looks nice so you must be good at it- I’m sure practice will help you figure out how to do the top properly too!

      1. Keep rocking that hair confidently! And hopefully we’ll get a shot of it all styled up too soon! You’re very welcome of course!

        Thanks for making me feel really good with that compliment! That’s so sweet! 😊 With more practice that’s exactly what I’m hoping for! You just have to push through the mistakes, and have patience. I’ve got this! 💪

        1. Yup, hopefully so thank you!

          For sure and the good thing is that even if you mess up it’s just hair- it’ll grow back. You just have to keep at it and you’ll get better 😊

  9. We have all being there PJG 😊 Here is a link to a song by our modern day Australian rock poet: Dumb Things (Paul Kelly):

    https://youtu.be/JgZ7qGrvfuc?si=r0rh6yXnjUS0Y7NZ

    1. Haha thanks, will definitely check it out- sounds like it’s perfect for this incident lol.

  10. Ah. Human foibles!

    1. They keep us amused!

  11. You still look gorgeous!

    1. Aw thanks so much!

  12. Not sure why it made me think of the tune;
    Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die…
    Luckily it’s not lethal lol but not super pleasant as well. On the topic of hair removal I have been reading about different ways of doing it. None of which sounds fun, I wonder if anyone here has good advice . Internet makes it sound so easy and fast but in reality it doesn’t last very long and costs more than it should. I don’t know just curious if anyone has a suggestion for me

    1. Lol that’s the perfect tune for this incident.
      You’ve come to the perfect place, I’ve literally tried every single hair removal method that exists. What’s your pain tolerance like? I can give you some suggestions based on that.

      1. I was just wondering what works and what doesn’t

        1. From my experience, nothing will get rid of the hair permanently not even laser or electrolysis. But Waxing is a good option if you are looking for something affordable that will last at least a week or two. If you don’t mind splurging a bit more, I would highly recommend getting an at home laser hair removal device. It won’t get rid of the hair permanently but it makes a huge difference in my experience. It slows down hair growth and decreases the time between hair cycles. You’ll have much less hair growth and will only have to laser once every few months after the initial 6-12 month period. Epilators are also a good option since you’ll be hair free for a few weeks at least but imo it’s not worth the pain plus it can cause ingrown hairs sometimes.

          1. I was going to get a small braun device but we don’t have them in stores. Like I looked and looked, the only way is to order online and I wanted to see it first. But I guess I will have to accept it’s going to be a blind date lol such is life

            1. Yeah the Braun one is popular so I’m not surprised. Sometimes it’s even sold out online. I’ve heard good things about the Phillips Lumea one too.

              1. I just ordered one online
                hope to see it soon on my porch

                1. Let me know if you see good results, I want to get a new one because mine stopped working.

                    1. Yeah so I’m on the hunt for a new one.

                    2. I see, I’m sorry it was so short lived

                    3. It’s fine, I had a feeling it wouldn’t last too long since it was surprisingly affordable lol.

                    4. Oh, I see. I got mine thru Walmart website, so we will see how long it lasts

                    5. Braun seems like a really good brand so hopefully it’ll last quite a while.

  13. Cringing for you! That must’ve hurt when you ripped half your eyebrow off! I wax my own too! Too expensive going to a salon! X

    1. It was more the shock than anything else, I have a good pain tolerance so the actual waxing didn’t hurt much lol! Yup, you gotta do some of these things ourselves it’s so expensive to go to the salon every couple of weeks!

  14. I think I might have done worse. I fell asleep in art class holding a pair of scissors over my face and as my face fell forward I cut the hair off the top of my head. I woke up when my teacher screamed at me “Thomas, this is not a hair salon”. The hair on top of my head grew back.

    1. Omg I’m glad it only took off some hair and didn’t hurt your face, that could have ended way worse.

  15. 🙏🌹

    Aum Shanti

  16. I like your candid blog post! I did a dumb thing yesterday too… so I was at McDonald’s and got an iced coffee at 8:00AM because I needed caffeine. It’s inside of a Walmart so I ended up getting groceries first, and then the iced coffee. As I was loading the trunk of my car, I had my heavy bag of groceries, and set my iced coffee drink on top of my car because it was easier than for me to set everything down to open the front car door. You can probably see where I am going with this.

    Long-story short, I forgot I had set the iced coffee on top of my car, and drove away with the iced coffee left behind. It made a huge mess all over the back window, but I didn’t realize it until I pulled into the parking lot of the Real Canadian Superstore across the street, only to wonder where my iced coffee was. 🤦‍♀️

    1. Oh no that’s awful! As I was reading the comment I was like I really hope she didn’t forget it up there. Unfortunately these things happen at the worst times 😭

      1. This morning I got a razor burn on my right armpit because I was in a hurry and used the electric razor instead of the manual one. It stings 😢 Maybe I should make a Dumb Things I did this Week blog post too 😂 I know I won’t have time to write anything this weekend, so maybe not. The list continues to grow lol

        P.S. I cleaned the side of my car and the splatter stain is still there. I’m hoping we get some rain so I can get a free car wash.

        1. Lol the dumb things I did this week is always an option 😭 And hope you’re okay razor burns are so painful when they’re bad!

          Oh geez, yeah hopefully you’ll get some rain soon.

          1. I may even have enough dumb things to write about now that Dumb Thing #3 made it onto my list of dumb things I did this week. So we shall see. 😆

            1. Lol now you can have a whole series of them 😅

  17. You still look beautiful. Just adjust the camera angles to make the other one look longer, lol. You may become a trend setter.

    My story of judgement lapse; I put some gasoline in a burning barrel when I was a teenager and lit it up. I had no eyebrows or eyelashes for over a month and part of my hair in front and on the sides curled up from the flames, so I trimmed it off and had an extreme version of a haircut like Jim Carrey in the dumb and dumber movies until it grew back.

    1. Lol I’m feeling extra thankful for the existence of eyebrow pencils right now.

      Omg stop that’s awful but so funny, I can picture you standing there in shock with no eyebrows and eyelashes like in the movies. I’m so glad they grew back though.

      1. Thanks for your sympathy. It was an important lesson to learn at a young age, lol.

        1. Lol for sure, you were probably extremely careful after that.

          1. Most times, lol.

  18. Ahh you made this mistake so that we could learn from it and I respect that 🙌🤣

    1. Lol yup took one for the team! 🤭

  19. SMiLes ‘The Crown of my Head’ Has Been Permanently
    Waxed Since 18 Years Old Dear Pooja So Your small Mistake

    In Waxing Off Part of Your Left Eyebrow that took me several
    Looks to See if that was the One seems very minor to me

    So Yes Please
    Do Let me Borrow
    Some of Your Indian
    Hair as it continues to
    Flourish Where it Belongs

    Where Mine Keeps Migrating

    From Head

    to Toe

    With SMiLes
    Other than that
    The Elephants
    on Your Shirt and
    Cover of Your Phone
    is Surely Styling Unique

    And
    Very
    Kenyan too..:)

    1. Oh wow, 18 is pretty young but that does happen sometimes. If I could send you some of those hair genes I would! Have you tried clove + rosemary water? It helps a lot in decreasing hair loss even if it’s MPB or genetic.

      1. How Kind of You Dear Pooja to Send me
        An All Natural Remedy of Clove and Rosemary Herbs to
        Combat the Bald Spot on the Crown of my Head True at

        18 i Was Very Concerned of When the Loss Might Stop
        Particularly for Potentials in Love Life though Back then

        James Garner
        And ‘Magnum
        PI’ Hairy Chests

        Where in ‘Vogue’
        Not So Much Now

        Yet then it More than
        Made Up for what is still
        Out of sight and out of mind
        Now as the Only Time i See the Crowned Bald
        Spot is in Videos of me When i Public Dance

        Yet Now that i Get
        to Build Soul Castles
        Of Free Dance and Song

        Hair or Not i Feel FLiGHT Both
        On Terrestrial Smooth Dance Floors

        And On This Digital Keyboard Flowing
        In Effortless Ease of Song By Fingers

        It’s All A Free
        Dance And Song
        Old or Young By

        Numbers

        Or With ‘Mona Lisa
        Hair and Smiles’ Like You

        Of Course after She Shaved
        Her Head and it Was Still Growing Back

        Reviewing the Mona Lisa Her Eyebrows

        Looked Painted
        On by a fine pointed pencil

        Yours are Much Better
        Just the way they are Now..:)

        1. Aw thank you and yes we must embrace ourselves as we are!

          1. Yes! Pleasure
            With SMiles☺️🙌

  20. Lol… dumb things make for great stories and selfies 😜 there’s no shame in it. Loving yout ability to have a laugh at yourself. Glad you’re okay, Pooja.

    1. Absolutely, they make for a good blog post too 😂 Of course, part of being human is making these silly mistakes and if we can’t laugh at them life would be so boring. Yup, I’m fine just a slightly bruised ego 😆

      1. Lol.. you’re so right.

  21. you look so adorable in the photo! especially your hair 🫶🏻🎀

    1. Aw thank, my hair likes to grow in its own direction 😅💕

  22. Like that hairstyle Pooj. As for eyebrows I can’t tell.

    1. Thanks so much!

  23. Ohhh, that must have hurt! Thankfully, as you noted, it is something that will self-correct 😀

    Is your hair naturally straight, or is it more curly like you have in this pix?

    1. I’m used to waxing my brows so the pain wasn’t bad, it was mostly the shock of realising that I had just waxed off like half my eyebrow that got to me 😅
      Yup, my hair is more curly like in the picture. Also somewhat unmanageable unless styled.

  24. A & J PEI Treasures/E Jean Simpson, BEd, BA, MA Avatar
    A & J PEI Treasures/E Jean Simpson, BEd, BA, MA

    That sounds painful. Sorry it happened to you.

    1. Thankfully, it wasn’t that much more painful that when I usually wax my brows. I think it was just the surprise of not having half an eyebrow that got to me haha.

  25. 🤣 Still looking beautiful, despite everything

    1. Haha thanks so much 😅😊

  26. Oh, I love you and your honesty so much, Pooja! I think I want to start my own series “I Did Something Dumb”, there would be plenty of enough material!!!! I don’t think it looks crazy obvious, and you can always use an eyebrow pencil to fill in until it grows out. 😊

    1. Haha I feel like most of us could easily have done enough dumb things to fill a book 😅 Yup, I’ve been filling it in for now and it’s already sort of growing back 😊

      1. Maybe THAT should be the book I work on, haha. Love it.

        1. Lol, I for one would buy it.

  27. We can’t tell which eyebrow got 50% removed 😜 jokes but I’m happy you can laugh at yourself for things like this instead of dumping on yourself. Thankfully it’s just hair so you’ll be back to normal in a few days 🙂

    1. Lol of course, I need to be able to laugh at my dumb mistakes considering I’m never going to stop making them 😅 Yup, super thankful it’s just hair that will grow back!

  28. Lols 😂
    It’s actually not that bad. Btw, I love your PJs. ✨

    I remember doing something stupid as well. I had never waxed my legs before. And I did it for the first time before a pool party. I ended up with wax burns so bad everyone thought I fell down somewhere. 🙈

    1. Aw thanks! Lol yeah when I fill it in it’s barely noticeable. Omg that sounds so painful and yeah you have to be super careful with wax 😭

      1. I wished I’d known that sooner before I brought out the wax. 😭😂

        Anyway. It was a lesson learnt.

        1. That happens to a lot of people the first time they try waxing, I legit burnt my arm and still have a scar 😅

          1. Oh my gosh!
            That sounds horrible. Kudos to you for trying waxing again. I gave up on it. 😂😂
            I guess the good thing to come out from these situations is we can look back and laugh at our stupidity.

            1. Lol ngl it did take a few years before I tried waxing again 😅 For sure, they give us something to be amused about and a story to tell!

  29. You look great, Pooja! We all make boo boos. I’ll never forget the time I had purple hair. It was a long time ago, and not the trend at that time. 😱

    1. Thanks and yup we all do sometimes! Honestly, purple hair sounds amazing I’m sure you pulled it off 😊

      1. You’re welcome. Yep, the purple hair was interesting. It eventually washed out.

  30. Every time I hear about “missing eyebrows”, I think of this Myth Busters clip.

    https://youtu.be/u5-xS9sDuLg?si=lqOKiIFIczwyeCr_

    1. Omg lol glad he was okay though.

  31. Looks fine to me, Pooja.

    I leave mine to the professionals, that way I have someone to blame. Lol 😂

    1. Thank you. I may have to do the same in the future lol 😂

      1. You’re most welcome. Enjoy your week ahead.

  32. You still look great. I’m a dummy too. Earlier this year, I overplucked a section of my left eyebrow and it’s taken forever for that area to grow back in. Yet, I have to pluck and groom around my brows every few days.

    1. Thanks so much. Oh no, I’ve been there and done that when I used to pluck my brows and for whatever reason it always took longer for the hair to grow back with plucking. Hopefully yours will grow in soon.

  33. 😎😎😎

  34. Not that noticeable Pooja

    1. Oh good. Usually when I go out I fill in the missing part so it evens out.

  35. I’ve cut my hair myself and a couple times have missed the mark. The good thing is hair grows back eventually.

    1. Lol same here when I had longer hair, it did not turn out great. But that’s the good part about hair, it grows back eventually.

  36. I just adore the way you write P.J. ❤️

    1. Thank you so much 😊

      1. God bless you ❤️

  37. Hi Pooja!

    This reminds me of one of incidents in my life.
    I once shaved or maybe used a scissor to give a proper shape to my eyebrows. Such a weird thing to hear na?🤭😂
    I did that during 8th standard back in 2014 I guess.

    I don’t know how I got this idea that there’s something wrong with ‘how I look’. I might have been inspired by the actresses I saw in Movies and ads.
    It looks like I used the scissor, to give them a proper shape.

    Next day I saw my crush gossiping about it to her friend while smiling at me.
    My ones of my eyebrows looked like how yours is looking in the picture. I can relate to what you are feeling right now.😳🤧

    Shit! The insecurity to look good is real.

    This is such an embarrassing thing. I don’t want to recall and revisit this. And here I’m sharing this publicly lol.🤣

    You look good overall. The hairs will regrow in few days.
    It’s OKAY!
    Be careful for the next time.

    1. Oh no, well at least we can laugh about these silly mistakes now that we’re older and have learnt our lesson! If it makes you feel any better, there was a boy in my class that did the same thing 😅

  38. Sorry to laugh but the way you laid out the dumb things gave me a good laugh…before I saw the photo. It doesn’t look as bad as you think and thank goodness for your Indian eyebrows. Mine are so thin that waxing isn’t even an option and believe me, I have over-tweezed them on more than one occasion over the years. Now you’ve got a bit of “quirk” to your look for a while… 🙂

    1. Lol I hoped it would make you guys chuckle so no worries. Yeah, I’m definitely thankful for mine. I’ve over tweezed too which is why I switched to waxing but I’m learning disasters can happen regardless lol. When I draw them in it looks fine but at least I have a funny story to share haha!

  39. We all do things like this, Pooja. Remember, you are beautiful. You can pencil in where you need.

    1. Thanks so much, yeah I’ve been drawing in the other eyebrow and it looks fine when drawn in.

  40. Yep, we all do dumb things… oh, I could tell you stories…. at least no one got hurt! 😅

    1. Lol yup, most of us do something dumb regularly just glad this isn’t permanent 😅

  41. I honestly can’t tell which eyebrow was affected. You look amazing, btw

    1. Thank you so much, it’s my right one but hopefully isn’t too obvious.

  42. Didn’t notice the eyebrow but I must have been gone a long time, when did you cut your hair? Doesn’t hurt to change it up every now and again 👍🏾.

    1. Yeah, I shaved my hair off towards the end of last year and then got it cut short again about two months ago.

      1. Yeah now I remember!

  43. Looks great, nice post

    1. Thanks so much.

  44. One of the few instances where we can be happy they grow quickly, hey?

    1. Lol, absolutely!

  45. Oh dear! Well, Jesus still loves you and so do your readers. Nice to know it’s not just me that human!

    1. Absolutely, we’re all human and we all make these silly mistakes! Hope you’re doing well, it’s been a while.

  46. Lol. They look fine to me, but as I’m vision impaired, I’m probably not the best judge of that sort of thing. On the other hand, sometimes blind judges are exactly the kind of judges people want.

    There was a time when I was young when American women were more or less removing their eyebrows and then drawing on pencil thin eyebrows in their place. I don’t know if that fashion existed overseas, but if it did, you could bring it back. Alternatively, you could introduce it. Of course, it’s never the best thing to lead a trend. You want to catch a fashion wave early, but not *first.* Hopefully it just grows back soon.

    1. I think it’s the way I’m standing, if you see if from the side there’s definitely a chunk missing lol. Oh people still do that, I think shaving your brows and drawing them on really thin is coming back but I love my thicker brows too much to do that haha.

  47. I needed this post today, Pooja <3 (LOLOL) !!!! They actually look great and would completely pass here for ultra chic … Thank you for sharing and I need more "I Did Something Dumb" posts !!! 😀

    1. Aw thank youuu and more coming up soon because I do dumb things almost daily 😂

  48. Leave eyebrows

    Let’s talk about hair!!

    how long has it been?
    wow
    PooG, new hairstyle?

    1. Haha yeah my hair has been through a lot since we last interacted on WP!

  49. […] In case anyone was wondering, yes my eyebrow did grow back and is pretty much back to normal now lol. For those of you that missed it, I accidentally waxed off half my eyebrow last month. Read more about it here. […]

  50. […] if anyone wants to take pictures of me pro-bono, I’m looking to hire lol… And yes my eyebrows are fully back- […]

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