Unwanted facial hair: an opportunity?
Melody | Tuesday, 15 January, 2008 at 7:39 AM They're lying, of course. These friends who pretend to be surprised if the topic of facial hair comes up in conversation. "You struggle with that?" says the friend I've known for more than 5 years, and I think, "Uh, how long has it been since you had your vision checked?" but I don't say it because I prefer to believe her instead, if only for the minute.
The bane of my existence never was blessed with the exotic twist like, "Well my family is from a small island in the Mediterranean." Nevertheless, yes, my gene pool is blessed with unwanted facial hair.
One of the 478+ topics I've avoided in my blog for these past few years, now an idea has started to form. Having discovered that web searches send surfers to my site if they type in such interesting strings as this or that... or that or even this, I started wondering about the benefits of blogging about this private topic, too?
Here, specifically, is what I'm wondering:
If I wrote about the massive annoyance that is the presence of unwanted facial and body hair in the life of a still sorta' young, not completely unattractive single woman, and I got some quality attention from the search engines, and a Greensboro or otherwise local laser hair removal provider with a stellar reputation, seeking to find ways of better advertising their services found their way to my site and was intrigued, could this be the answer I'm looking for? Think about it! Businesses want all the inbound links to their websites that they can find. Inbound links are generated in a number of ways. Blogging is one of those ways.
Wouldn't it be cool to find the perfect match? The company who thought it'd be super if I told my story - I'm told a very common one, though I generally imagine otherwise - and I blogged about the process from beginning to end, and they, in turn, offered me free laser hair removal in exchange for the publicity my site could generate...? Yea, it could be a very, very good thing.
So now we have a new topic, babies. In addition to the general plethora of random topics that pepper my site, you now get to read about Melody's annoyance with tweezing and waxing and all the generally unpleasant hair-removal tricks we avoid discussing in polite company. On her blog. In public. Where other people will be reading it too.
Oh yea, it's gonna' be an interesting year. (And if I'm lucky, maybe hair-free, too!)
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Reader Comments (4)
Goodmorning! What a surprise to see a new change in your web site.
Hair--you just learn to deal with it. You could check out the adds on Google.
Have a great day!
Love,
Mom
I had my upper lip waxed last year and I specifically asked the woman if doing this once would doom me to a life of ending upper lip waxing. She lied and told me no. Now I shell out $8 every two months for the process. PLUS, I have some sort of age spots on my uppper lip which make me look like I have a shadow (read: mustache) even when my lip is baby bottom bare.
Being a woman bites, on many days.
That would be "unending" proces...
Mom, you're funny. (In case others couldn't tell without benefit of your facial expressions and the tone I heard on the phone last night, the Google thing was a joke.) You, my dear, may learn to deal with it, but I'll most certainly not be giving up without a fight on this one. ;) Love you too!
Dena, that's interesting! I never took the time to ask a "professional" about regrowth (seeing as how this trouble started when I was an adolescent,) but I had no idea the first attempt at management could actually make it less manageable.
Makes sense though, given all my own attempts.
Meanwhile, I like you so I won't think nasty thoughts about you behind my back because you only have to go every 2 months for the process. I'll give it a rest and perhaps unveil more whiny details (that shed better light on how waxing your upper lip every other month sounds like a dream,) at another time. Another time further along the saga of Will Melody Find A Laser Hair Removal Office To Give Her Their Services In Exchange For Advertising And Telling The Story On Her Blog?
Meanwhile I'm going to stop and return to checking off items on a certain list I mentioned over here.