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I tried a few options, one of which was burning the hairs off with a cigarette lighter. Now that was all well and good for toe hair. Yes I admit it, I get three fuzzy blonde hairs on my big toe. But there are parts of my body which I wish to be hairless that are, how should we say.. much too delicate to take a cigarette lighter anywhere near.
I really don't fancy burning my pits.
Next.
I tried hair removal creams.
That didn't work. I was allergic to them, all of them. I came up with huge red lumps which Helen Keller could have used as classic Braille examples and it was so itchy that I could have taken a hair brush to it and rubbed away furiously.
I was running out of options fast. So I decided to step off the abyss. It was time to venture where fools step and angels fear to tread.
It was time to think about waxing.
So far ,I had avoided even thinking about wax. To be perfectly honest slathering wax on my bits and then savagely tearing off agonizing strips of hair and my skin, just didn't appeal to me. But drastic times call for drastic measures. I'm not one to be bothered much by pain - hell, I have six kids. Surely waxing couldn't be too bad.
So off I wandered to the local pharmacy to get me some wax.
I walked in and looked around and of course, I had no clue so I had to walk up to the snotty blonde makeup assistant with the college degree and ask her where the waxes were.
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Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By toryroseq, January 18, 2008 at 16:01You are so funny. Sounds so much like my life, it's almost scary!!
Regards, Tory
Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By Feisty, January 7, 2008 at 20:09You have spoken for all the women who have ever tried waxing, and managed to do it with humor. Great story.
Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By Michelle Kenneth, January 7, 2008 at 16:28This was soo funny. One thing I always tell girls...never go to a nail salon that has waxing as an option to get your "bits" done. Go to a professional spa to have it done. It may cost you a little more to have it done at the spa, but it's less painful and the girls there know exactly WHEN it's gonna hurt and most will immediately apply pressure to that area to stop the stinging so you're not in severe pain.
I could never wax myself. I tried once and started crying in pain when I put the wax on. I never ripped it off...I was crying over the anticipation of pulling it off. I ended up washing it off and going to a professional.
I have friends who were in pain days later after getting wax jobs done on any part of their body when they went to a nail salon to get it done. One girl got her "bits done." She couldn't walk for about a week after that. One girl got her eyebrows done before a wedding...it ripped off part of the skin around her eyebrows and she was bleeding.
So waxing, ladies, I highly recommend leaving it to the professionals.
Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By luyen, January 7, 2008 at 14:13I watch my wife (sometimes i help) with the wax peeling thinga-ma-jig, cause that's what it is to me...not only is it time consuming for her, but it seems that maintaining the female body requires some degree of pain tolerance, something which i can assure you guys have very little of.
I once hung out with a girl who was a hippie by all descriptions, and at first it took me a while to get used to the unkempt appearance (dreads, body hair), no moustache thank goodness...and after a while i got used to it, and found it quite natural!
All i can say, is that it's a good test of your partner's affection for you, if you rub a gritty leg against his, and he doesn't run out of the room, you've got a keeper!
Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By Robyn Stubbs, January 7, 2008 at 15:06"...it seems that maintaining the female body requires some degree of pain tolerance, something which i can assure you guys have very little of" - just making sure you meant to say GUYS have low pain tolerance, not us women. Otherwise, you're lookin' for trouble, Lu!
:)
Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By Heather Wallace, January 5, 2008 at 09:23My only problem with waxing is that you have to let the hair grow long enough for the wax to have something to hold onto...I'm a tweezer-razor girl.
Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By Heather2000, January 5, 2008 at 08:26I hear these stories all the time...I professionally wax and many people do not understand the basic steps of how to wax. For one you need to have a wax pot that consistently heats the wax and keeps it at a specific temp to keep from burning the skin and you have to place the wax on your body properly with a wooden stick that resembles a popsicle stick. There actually is a knack to it. You have to hold the skin tight in certain places where the skin is a little loose or a bruise or tear will result. The wax must be put on with the growth of the hair and the wax must be removed with a strip against the hair growth.
Although these stories are good for a laugh. I can only imagine the pain....ouch!!!
Re: Wax On, Wax Off: A Waxy Tale Of My First Time
By Robyn Stubbs, January 4, 2008 at 15:43I've tried waxing once, but the only thing I can remember is how messy it was! Anyways, everyone loves a good waxing-gone-wrong story, so thanks for sharing! I think I'll stick to my disposable razor ...