Sunday, June 10, 2012

No Picture Today

Yesterday was my daughter's wedding.  We had two photographers.  As I was Mother Of The Bride, I figured prominently in plenty of pictures.  When I got back to the hotel, I had a Baileys and fell asleep quickly and soundly.  When I woke up I felt a little twinge in my chin. - could one sprain their chin?  No, but one could get the hugest, Mt Everest of pimples on ones chin, where a hated Crones Hair had sprung up and been unceremoniously plucked out with the nearest available tweezers.  Was this hideous creature with a life, (and possible family) of its own there yesterday for all of these treasured pictures?  Could no one have warned me?  Are they going to airbrush hundreds of pictures?  Did no one have extra-strength cover-up cream to lend me?  Or a nearby construction site with extra-strength Spackle I could borrow.  Could I have held my finger up to my chin a la Shirley Temple to obscure this blight on the landscape of my chin?  (Or in this case, three fingers!!)
But my point, and I do have one, is that when I lived in Seattle, my Crone Hairs were grey, a product of the stress of dealing with the weather, traffic, and the expense of living in such an expensive city.  The friendlier, slower, less expensive pace of Oklahoma has turned them back to black.  A Grey Crone's Hair I would have ignored!
On a side not, why is the Crone's Hair not studied more by the Bosley Institute on Hair Restoration?  At noon, your chin can be clear as the proverbial baby's bottom, and in less than 4 hours, one of those beauties will be half an inch long!  Let's put those toupee makers out of business.

10 comments:

  1. Oh, Beryl! I have so much experience with those big-ass chin zits. Don't despair, though; it might not be in the pictures. I've found that the pain comes at the very beginning, just before the monster surfaces. So your pictures might be fine. Hope you enjoyed the wedding!

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  2. Aaargh! I know exactly how you feel. After my daughter's wedding, I was very self-conscious about my smile...which revealed the dental work I needed to have done, but luckily none of those over-night hairs. Let's cross our fingers that it is one that grew with relief AFTER the wedding.

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  3. Oh Beryl, you are soooo hilarious! I hate those nasty hairs too...that is why our eyes don't focus as well after 40...so we don't see all that is happening to our face..LOL
    I bet the wedding was beautiful and can not wait to see pictures.

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  4. Oh gosh, I hate those things. I told my girls that when I am in my coffin if they don't pluck them I will come back to haunt them.

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  5. What a hoot you are. I don't seem to have those yet, but expect they are just around the corner. Isn't getting older just so much fun?

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  6. Hi Anne - You're right about the pictures of the wedding - however yesterday's pictures show a red polka dot chin. Today it's almost all better. Might just be an allergic reaction to Wedding Cake. (And I love Wedding Cake!)

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  7. Hi Terri - Being Mother of the Bride was kind of fun. Don't you have a few more chances at it?

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  8. Hi Jeanne - I never thought of it like that - bifocals and Crone Hairs both come at about the same time. Pretty clever, when you think of it!

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  9. Hi Carla - That is adorable. I picture your poor, distraught daughters coming to the wedding armed with tweezers and waxing kits.

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  10. Hi Shelley - I don't wish these little hairs on anyone. They aren't as annoying as some of the other things. My least favorite of all has been the dry heels. Which might actually just been from moving to a dryer climate.

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