Eyebrows Will Go Missing

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I went to the beauty salon yesterday for a mani-pedi. While I was checking in, I realized that I had time for one of their ladies to dye my eyebrows. I asked if someone was available. I was in luck, or so I thought. Once my fingernails were bright magenta and my toenails nicely trimmed, I went to turn my mostly white eyebrows back to their original hue. After checking in and lying back, I mentioned that I was going to a party later last night. The esthetician told me that she would be careful not to leave my skin red. What? She thought I was there for eyebrow waxing, which I was not. What followed was an unhappy discussion of a new FDA ruling which has outlawed dyeing eyebrows. This occurred because of coal-tar in the dye. They decided that dyeing eyebrows was not safe. This is despite the fact that nothing bad has been reported. We both think that this is some sort of a scam. We feel like perhaps someone with a competing product wants the competition put out of business. Okay. Not nice, but par for the course in the last several years. But there are unintended consequences for beauty salons and their employees. This particular salon has four ladies who had been providing this service. The salon was pulling in $20,000 annually just from keeping eyebrows from disappearing. Another consequence is for people like me, who have either very few eyebrows or ones that are rapidly turning white. If I had bushy eyebrows, it would not matter so much. They would remain visible. But I have fewer hairs above my eyes than most people. Because they are light in color now and my skin is fair, it looks like I don’t have any eyebrows at all. It is annoying to have to put on makeup just to look normal. Dyeing the little white hairs was a simple solution. I hope the guys at the FDA and their buddies hurry up and bring out the non-coal-tar product, so white haired ladies like me don’t have to go without eyebrows for very long!