GaryView: Get Vajazzled for $17!
This post is the result of seeing this very sign in front of a beautician’s in the city. I posted about it elsewhere, and Sally said I should GaryView the moment. So I did.
Gary: I saw something on a sign the other day that I didn’t understand.
Lissa: What was it?
Gary: It said “Get vajazzled for $17”.
Lissa: …
Gary: What’s ‘vajazzled’?
Lissa: …
Gary: Because it sounds like something they would do on that show you like. With all the singing.
Lissa: Glee. Ah. No. I don’t think so… well, Brittany and Santana maybe. Maybe Kurt, though I don’t think it’s called vajazzled when it’s a guy…
Gary: But what is it? I went in to the shop to ask but they just gave me that look I get sometimes. Like I was asking something weird.
Lissa: You asked? Sorry. Yes. Of course you would, that’s the scientific response. But… The reason for the look…
Gary: Yes?
Lissa: Um. It’s this thing where a girl gets rid of all her hair… there… (gestures vaguely around her pelvis) and then they stick on… bits of jewellery. Sparkly stuff. Crystals.
Gary: (Blinks) Like… sequins. On there…. (gestures vaguely around his pelvis).
Lissa: Yes.
Gary: Why?
Lissa: Beats me.
Gary: I mean you wouldn’t…. (gestures vaguely around his pelvis) …would you?
Lissa: Oh dear god no!!!
Gary: Cos that would be weird, right?
Lissa: And I suspect uncomfortable and unhygienic.
Gary: In the late sixties at uni, a lot of girls were all about being natural and stuff. Some of them didn’t even wear deodorant. Doing… that.. (gestures vagely around his pelvis) is like something in one of those science fiction novels about sex robots they wrote in the seventies.
Lissa: Well, that’s what it is. It’s jazzing up your…(gestures vaguely around her pelvis) … with sparkles.
Gary: Seriously? And they thought I was weird for asking what is was?
Lissa: It’s a weird world.
Gary: I don’t even think vampires are the weirdest thing in it.
Lissa: You have a point. This reminds me though – I have to print out those instructions I wrote for my seniors internet class on how to Google.
Gary: ‘Google’ sounds like what happens to your brain when you learn what vajazzled means. My brain is all googled. Like boggled only moreso.
Lissa: Actually, that’s a fairly valid definition of what often happens when you look things up on the internet.
*For newcomers, the GaryView is a review of books/films/TV/entertainment carried out as a conversation between Lissa Wilson (librarian) and Gary Hooper (vampire) , characters from my book ‘The Opposite of Life’.
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Now that was funny! And educational.
My hubby saw that video (I couldn’t stop him, he’s in the same room) and is just as googled as Gary. Shook his head and muttered something about papercuts in bad places. That’ll teach him to look over my shoulder when I on the computer!
See, I only do these things for their educational value. I think we’re all pretty comprehensively googled by this particular fad.
This GaryView bought me back to a very hilarious and somewhat eye-watering conversation on the weekend that explored the euphemisms for various parts of the anatomy plus the weird things people do to themselves. Someone mentioned vajazzling and then proceeded to describe the procedure with examples eg a Christmas tree design – my mind really was googled by that stage.
A Christmas tree?? A CHRISTMAS TREE??? How… festive. There’s a great video (and by ‘great’ I mean of course ‘dumbfounding’ video of vajazzling on Mia Freedman’s blog at http://www.mamamia.com.au/weblog/2010/04/vajazzle-your-va-jay-jay-because-youre-worth-it.html
That page also has links to cupcakes which are Not Safe For Work…
How I love you Narrelle!
That was perfect, and just what I needed today.
Delighted to have been instrumental in vajazzling your day.