Popular Beauty Spot Won't Cut Your Hair or Paint Your Nails
By Olivia Leigh in Miscellaneous on Nov 3, 2006 5:29PM
Listen, Chicago, we feel your pain. We know that this problem has left you distraught to no end, that you spend restless nights tossing in the sheets, that you have said a nightly prayer for your needs to be fulfilled.
Well say "Hallelujah," because salvation is here. Yes, that’s right, Chicago finally has our very own dedicated “brow grooming studio.”
While we realize a proper arch can help to make you look more awake and that fending off the dreaded unibrow is of paramount importance, could one actually make an entire business around plucking and tweezing a few hairs?
The answer, it seems, is yes.
The B-Spot, located on the third-floor of an unassuming building at 1471 N. Milwaukee, has been so successful that the one-woman salon now has over 500 clients.
Rashida Balogun was trained as an aesthetician to provide a variety of spa treatments, including body waxes and facials. However, she soon realized that her talents lay in eyebrows, and she set up shop in Wicker Park 18 months ago.
If you want to give Ms. Rashida a try, be sure you’re ready to pony up a pretty penny for those brows. An initial tweezing session costs $50 and typically is about 20 minutes long. Follow-up sessions, within two months, are $40 each. She also recently added a $125 brow sculpt service, which teaches clients how to apply brow powder.
While we’re no Damone Roberts, we can’t help but think that we apply our brow powder just fine, and we certainly can’t rationalize paying someone $125 to show us how to do it better.
If the concept of a brow salon sounds a bit bizarre, know that Chicago is jumping on an already well-established brow-grooming wagon. From the aforementioned Damone Roberts to Anastasia, Oprah’s brow priestess of choice and the woman that started it at all, brows are big business across the country.
We naturally assume that this is in response to a demand by women. As we’ve never had particularly unruly arches, the farthest we’ve gone to take care of them was by taking part in the “free eyebrow wax with haircut” deal at our hometown salon. What do you think? Are brows ever worth $125, or even $50?
Image from dalydose.