Facepalm

steph861

FMIL, my mom and I got our pre-wedding manicures today. While FMIL was getting hers, the manicurist straight up asked her if she wanted her eyebrows and upper lip waxed. She then proceeded to tell FMIL that she wouldn't want her grandkids to look at the pictures years from now and say "grandma really needed her brows waxed!"

AND THEN her manicurist called over to me (I was in the next room getting my nails done) and asked what I thought. I played dumb and pretended I hadn't been listening to the conversation. My manicurist quietly started telling me what they had been talking about. I whispered that I had heard them but didn't want to get involved.

Yes, FMIL could use some help beauty-wise, but oh my God! I wanted to crawl into a hole.

ETA My mom just discreetly thanked the manicurist for suggesting waxing to FMIL. Gah.

novella1186

Holy shit. How can a "beauty pro" not have more tact than that?! Cringe.

steph861

FMIL was very open to it, though. Even so, that was so awkward.

sarawifenow

Soooooo awkward! Side-note: You're getting married in two days! That's so exciting!

levioosa

novella1186 said:

Holy shit. How can a "beauty pro" not have more tact than that?! Cringe.

Depending on the type of nail salon I can very easily see this happening.  There is no such things as tact in those.  They are seriously not shy in telling you what to improve and trying to up-sell product/service.  

"But your bf will loooove such pretty flower!  Oh, no boyfriend?  You can get a bf with the pretty flower!"

And that's not the worst thing I've heard in a salon.  

mrs4everhart

About a year ago I was visiting my Mom and we went out for mani/pedis. We're sitting next each other and the woman doing my manicure asks me if I have children. I assume she's trying to make conversation, no big deal.

I say no, I don't. (That pretty much sums it up, right? WRONG!). She then asks why not!! I couldn't believe my ears and my Mom is pretending to not hear all this. So I decide for the truth: because I don't want any, I tell her. She looks at me incredulously and asks, "Really?" (as if every woman on the planet is pining away for babies). At this point I'm getting a little annoyed. So I tell her I don't like children and therefore wouldn't make a very good Mom, ergo, I don't want them, didn't have any. Now THAT should end the conversation, right? Wrong again. She then addresses my Mom and asks her if she wants grandkids. I couldn't believe my ears. My Mom told her she had no bearing on my reproductive choices and that she would never force her wants/needs upon me because that's not her place. Between that and my icy stare I think she figured out it was time for her to STFU. 

I'm still mad I couldn't fake a sobbing jag and Oscar worthy performance about my inability to have children. I technically can't, but I'm completely okay with it, but many women aren't and I'd loved to have taught her an embarrassing lesson about getting too personal with strangers, especially about such a touchy topic. 

beethery

My old stylist did that to me once. Her upsell was AWFUL. She ended up fucking my hair up too. I don't work with her ass anymore.

WOW BITCH, THANKS FOR TELLING ME I HAVE A STACHE. Wax your god damn taint!

climbingsingle

My old nail salon used to do that to me too. "ONLY EYEBROWS???? NO LIP?!? ARE YOU SURE??"

Yeah, thanks.

lovesclimbing

Yea, I'm not surprised either. 

One of my good friends was telling me about a time she was at a salon and there was a lady who was getting a pedicure in the seat next to her.  She obviously hadn't shaved her legs in several weeks if not a month.  The person doing her feet said something about how she needed to shave or get a wax.  The lady kind of laughed and said she'd had xyz medical thing that kept her from bending over enough to shave, but my friend could tell the lady was embarrassed.  And then, the pedicurist had the audacity to mention it again later!

Seriously, she has a medical thing going on!  That is so incredibly rude and heartless and terrible.