Microblading – a fancy word eyebrow tattooing – is the most buzzy beauty treatment of the year. But while a good microblading session leaves you with feather-fine strokes of ink that make you look like you were born with perfectly shaped brows, a bad session can go very, very wrong.
That’s where Reddit user AundaRag is facing a dilemma. Her boyfriend’s mum got a bad brow job, and now she’s talking AundaRag into doing the same. She even bought her a voucher for Christmas.
“I’ve been talking about having my eyebrows microbladed forever by a very expensive high-end studio. After showing my boyfriend’s mum and aunt some really cool microblading photos on Instagram, my boyfriend’s mum opted to have her brows microbladed… at a discount Groupon joint,” AundaRag writes.
“They don’t look terrible meaning she isn’t deformed or anything, but they certainly don’t look anything like the caliber of work I would be comfortable with on my face. What matter is she is very happy with the results so I am happy for her.”
By not terrible we can only assume she means "drawn in with a Sharpie marker". Unfortunately the mum-in-law is so happy with her new look, she wants AundaRag to get hers done by the same artist.
"The caveat is that she buddied up to the microblade-artist and keeps telling me, “She is so cool, she can totally do your brows too, I have her card as soon as your ready!” It was mentioned that they may have even PURCHASED A SESSION for me with her for Christmas. No way. Can’t. Won’t," she writes.
Now AundaRag is stuck with a dilemma - how does she tell her potentially future mother-in-law that she doesn't want to accept the 'generous' gift because her brows look like a Halloween costume (we assume)?
"How do I graciously decline? I clearly don’t have plans to say, “I already booked another artist” because the artist I want is way out of my immediate price range at the moment. Admitting I don’t like the artist’s work literally insults my boyfriend’s mum’s looks. I’m feeling really trapped with this one".
If you ask us, having your face permanently disfigured out of politeness is above and beyond good girlfriend duties.
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I've had issues with previous boyfriends mothers, 2 of which would be considered tough protective single mothers that have brought up their families single handedly. The fact neither of these women had significant other's when I knew them, I often found their interest in my personal life/style choices a little bit too much. My thing will always be that if you & your boyfriend either have problems/god forbid break up, this like any tattoo is a permanent reminder of this particular time in your life.
I hear the reluctance in this post, it doesn't just seem to sit around the relative affordability factor that is weighing on her mind. To me as a therapist it seems far more complex than this.
I would suggest this lady needs to sit back & work out how much she is willing to sacrifice to this boyfriend's family, also making sure she has firmly in place a set of backup plans just in case, our boundaries on how much other people can influence our lives & thinking are very much in play here.
So for me she doesn't sound comfortable, so No to the tattoo as fashions come & go, look at the amount of people that have to go through all that pain & embarrassment of having to have tattoo's removed, because they didn't sit back & think of the consequences years into the future, as well as the short term consequences if something goes horribly wrong & the "bargain" turns out to be a nightmare.
Tell her it's too late now, you just bought this. Wear it to all family gatherings
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