<human>: Not actually today, but a couple years ago in high school. We were doing some kind of experiment which involved placing green leaves in a small beaker of alcohol and then placing that beaker into a larger beaker of water, and heating the entire thing over a bunsen burner - something to do with removing chlorophyll from the leaves.

Anyways, I'm in class attempting to do the assignment and I have everything set up just as instructed - the burner is on full flame and the beaker of water is boiling nicely.

Well, I guess I heated the concoction for too long because the smaller beaker containing the leaves in the alcohol suddenly lights itself on fire. Instead of doing the sensible thing (getting the fire extinguisher from the corner), in a panic, I instinctively blow vigorously on the now-burning beaker of alcohol.

Turns out, that was a very bad idea. The flames did not go out; instead, they exploded into an enormous fireball which managed to engulf the front of my face before I could recoil to safety.

At the time, I had kind of longish bangs which went down over my eyes. So when I blew on the beaker of burning alcohol, all the hair which had been anywhere in the vicinity of the front of my face was immediately burnt to a crisp. My eyelashes and eyebrows were nothing more than wispy white tendrils of ash.

Luckily, the flames weren't hot enough to cause any burns to my skin, only enough to destroy my hair.

So for a good few weeks the look of surprise I had when the fire exploded into my face stayed with me: I had no eyebrows.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: Attempted to blow out an alcohol-caused fire; managed instead to burn off my bangs, eyebrows and eyelashes.