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waxing - a funny, an oopsie, and may i suggest...From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:27:48 -0600 (CST)
1. the funny. i was in wal-mart two nights ago in the make-up-y section for zit cream and hair removing wax. the hair wax section, as i am sure you know, is kind of baffling in a big store. you got your nair, your sally hanson, that jolen's bleach stuff, and that surgi-brand stuff... you got your sugar wax, your microwavable wax, your roll on wax, your pre-waxed sheets... well, there was this woman looking at stuff when i got there and i could tell she was a. nervous about being seen and b. unsure what to buy. i saw her hand come to rest on a box of the wax wax (as opposed to sugaring wax) and i was about to tell her, you know, the sugar wax comes off a lot easier and doesn't make your skin break out as badly since the residue doesn't stay behind... but before i could, she grabbed a box of nair and a box of sally hanson and literally RAN. hmmm... well, not my problem. it never occured to me to be embarrassed to buy wax, somehow. either it's because no one knows WHERE the unwanted hair is - it could be my legs, it could be my butt, it could be somone else's legs or butt. :) or else it's because if you buy an embarrassing product enough times, you stop being embarrassed. (PCOS has made it such that at 23, i am finally not embarrassed to buy maxipads... i guess most girls reach that stage at 16 or so... :/ ) somehow i felt a little nervous buying wax the other night. :) but not too nervous. so i pick out my nair sugar wax stuff and i go to the register with my armload of other stuff... and as i am waiting, who should come into the line behind me but the woman i saw buying wax earlier!!! and once again she cut and ran!!!!!! how bizarre. it puts a new spin on things, i guess... you really never know what someone else is thinking when they see you buying embarrassing products. 2. the oopsie. since my bf went away for thanksgiving break, i figured i'd let my beard grow so maybe i could wax it and hopefully achieve the same good results i've been havinbg with waxing my inner thighs and belly button. it's really hard to let your chin hair grow long enough to wax though, you know? plucking might not be effective in the long run but it works well enough in the short term. so i let my whiskers grow... 5 days without plucking!!!! and it kind of didn't feel all that bad. but still, i wanted to feel girly and smooth. so today i go to wax... i know from past experience that the sugar wax which works really well on my legs and belly does NOT work so well on chin hair. i was looking for these cold wax strips i bought that are much much stickier. i don't like them cuz they leave goo behind and when i used them on my upper lip they made me break out. but i thought they'd work better than the sugar wax. but i couldn't find them!!!!! i looked all over my room but nada. ah well. so i used the sugar wax... and it ripped out all the soft downy fuzz that everyone has and left all the nasty horrid whiskers that only freaks like us ( :) ) have. great move!!!!! so i had to pluck anyway. and now i am worried that the soft fuzzy hair will grow back coarse and horrid. i know they SAY it won't but ... "they" say a lot of things about hair removal that are supposed to be true and never seem to work out that way. grrrr... 3. the may i suggest. i wonder what methods people find are best for hair removal? i'm talking more specific here than methods, really... i mean, like, when you tweeze, thich tweezer works best? i find the flat square tipped revlon tweezer works well for general purpose, but somestimes i use the bacl handled revlon professional tweezer for extra tiny stubborn hairs. but i have yet to find a tweezer which can over come those hairs that keep kind of going snap, snap, snap and refusing to come out... then break too short to try again. grrr.... for waxing purposes, i really like the nair sugar wax. i used the stuff in the roll on though i used to just buy squeeze tubes. now i think i am gonna refill the roll ons with the squeeze tubes. the hair on my belly and inner thighs has been coming in much slower & finer since using these. i also use this on my moustache occaisionally. my moustache though is blond and fine - it just gets LONG which is why it bugs me. i have to confess here i wax recreationally, too... i find some weird joy out of waxing my lower legs not because i do a thourough enough job for it to look good but because it's some small battle won over my horrendous hormone problem. i love to wax and then look at all the little hairs and black bulbs that are no longer in my skin. :) it seems to make my lower legs a mess, though... waxing somehow seems only good for belly and inner thighs. anyone else have a different experience? in the summer, i shave, and i find the skintimates for underarm and bikini shave cream works better than anything else. (and i used it ALL over, on my legs i mean...) anyway. anyone think it'd be cool to tabulate what methods, brands, and styles of removals people have had success with? or how bout failures? anyone else try the braun silk epil??? took my legs YEARS to recover from the ingrowns and infections... :/ and perhaps we could have a silent tribute to the epilady... eeeeeeeeeeeouch! - jodi
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