Thursday, August 7

Facial

So, its almost time for my engagement, and my family (including the soon-to-be extended one) arm-twisted me into agreeing to take a facial. I frankly thought to myself, must be a simple procedure where someone slathers some cream-sheem to my face and pampers me. But Oh! What horror of horrors awaited me!!

Scene1: (It's 9.00am) I am shaving, and taking meticulous precautions in not cutting the varied pimples on my face. Believe it can be very painful to cut your face in such a scenario.

Scene2: (It's 7.30pm) I head towards the beauty saloon with some trepidation having never been inside one of these saloons. I sit on the chair and inform the masseuse what all needs to be done.

Scene3: (It's 9.30pm) The poor man is pricking away at all my pimples, blood and tears are flowing from my face. Irfan (that's his name) is informing me that this is for my own good ... yeah right!! My blood (or whatever thats left of it) is seething to a boil. Grrrrr! The chair's arms provide a hard and cold solace against the needle's sharp point.

Scene4: (It's 10.30pm) My face has been brutally mutilated, with open wounds across the face, it feels like what the Mumbai stadium feels like after Shiv Sainiks have romped across the pitch.

I reach home, my cell has been constantly ringing off its hook, but in the pain endeavored moments, I could not pick them up. It's my fiance, ... "Honey, how was the facial?"

Sometimes I really wonder at the suffrage that women go through, or do they like doing these things? I think it prepares them for the pain during the delivery phase. I for one have decided that this was the last facial that I ever had. No more, no more ... cholbe na ye na cholbe!!

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

lol... kida this is fun. I have been through all the grind during my marriage. And believe me, it took them 3 sittings of 4-5 hrs each to make me fairer. :-D

Anyway, women are meant for it. Think about it when they allow hot wax to be applied on their legs, put a cloth and rip apart the hair in one go... (eek...!) and yet fear a tiny lizard on the wall.

Take it or leave it... you will go again. "Badhhu maja aawse"

Hypnos said...

whoa! you've now made me unfacialable for life :)

Harshaja Ajinkya said...

I liked the way you have written your experience...but i guess will make it sure you dont have to go thru same torture;)

Unknown said...

@mayur - i think you are right. But ill resist and will go down fighting!!
@amit - trust me, you will be where i am sitting in some years
@harshu - baghuya haaan :)

Anonymous said...

Woohoo.. so shaadi ka preps.. all the best..

I got facial for my engagement.. couldnt feel my face skin for a while... didnt venture out to the salon for the marriage though.. and the photos came out better :D

Unknown said...

@chandoo - I shouldve talked to you earlier mon ami!!

Sudhir Pai said...

err...

my mom and sis forced me to get my first facial some 8 months back,when there was a family do...
gosh!! I should've guessed facials are to be done when people judge you on face value [:D]
you think it'll work when a guy has a job interview the next day?

Unknown said...

@sudhir - not if you have a face like me .. the next day I had a semi glowing skin with pockmarks and puncture marks all over :) .. I am a strong proponent AGAINST these facials!!

Anonymous said...

So now you know pal, the grit it takes for women to look pretty and all that!!!

And congratulations on the engagement!

Unknown said...

@lc - yeah!! What I am questioning is .. why take the efforts to do all this .. beauty is not skin deep!

Anonymous said...

In the movie "The Dark Knight" no one gets to know how joker got his face. I just got to know one probable way.

Congrats dude
Cheers

Unknown said...

Lol!! thanks Sutta :))

Unknown said...

WTH!!

I stood firm during my wedding. Didn't even allow anything on my face during the reception and here you are taking a facial for an engagement!! Didn't expect you to cave in Kida! :-)

Unknown said...

Try fending off your soon-to-be fiance, your sister, your mother ...even your father. Had to cave in!!

Unknown said...

Reasons, I say!! Agree that deep down you wanted a facial yourself!! Man, whats with this addiction towards fairness? :p

Unknown said...

kuch bhi :)