Talk about wax on, wax off! A mom on TikTok has divided opinions online after waxing her three-year-old daughter's eyebrows and posting the footage.
Leah Garcia - who is known by the handle @leah_txrealtor on the video-sharing platform - uploaded a short clip of her waxing the hairs in between her daughter's eyebrows. In the video, her daughter is heard saying: "Ow, mom, that hurt me," after Garcia rips a wax strip from between her daughter's brows.
The 31-year-old is then heard saying: "All right, girl, now you got two eyebrows! No more Flores brow."
The text overlay on the video read: "IDC [I don't care]! IDC! I'd rather y'all call me a bad mom before I let my 3-year-old walk around with a unibrow like my parents did!"
So far, the TikTok has received 22 million views and 3 million likes, with the caption stating: "My fellow Mexicans, y'all understand!"
Check out the clip below:Many users have supported Garcia, with many people commenting that they wished their own moms had done this for them.
One person wrote: "She will thank you someday."
TikTok influencer and wife of Motley Crue's Tommy Lee, Brittany Furlan, commented: "I WISH my mom did this for me."
"Ugh I wish my mom did this for me. Got bullied so hard for my eyebrows and my arms," someone else added.
Another user mentioned that they'd been bullied for their hairy brows, stating: "I was made fun of in elementary school for having a [unibrow]."
"I'm an indigenous person who inherited my mom's German hair genes [...] Kids called me a gorilla. The trauma of not being able to shave until 16 [though]," a further user chimed in.
Though, unsurprisingly, many TikTok users were against the idea of waxing a child's eyebrows.
"Once my kids ask I will 100% let them but before then I don't want to make them insecure on something they haven't noticed," one parent noted.
"As soon as a parent points out a flaw it will stick with them forever. Even if they are thankful, they'll remember not being perfect for mom," another added.
Given the polarized opinions on her TikTok, Garcia spoke to Today about the video, stating: "As a child, I had very thick and dark eyebrows and I'd shave behind my parents' back because my father didn't believe children should worry about things like that. I remember a boy saying to me in kindergarten, 'Why are your eyebrows so big?'"
The mom-of-two then added: "I understand where [critics] are coming from but kids can be cruel. Waxing her unibrow isn't giving in to bullies; it's preventing them from targeting my daughter."
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