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Re: waxing - a funny, an oopsie, and may i suggest...
From: Marsha (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:23:01 -0600 (CST)
Oh, my gosh!! Too funny! I'm new to this site and just found out I have
PCOS about 3 months ago... I'm soooooo embarrassed about my awful chin
hairs that I pluck daily and my NECK, I have this awful patch of hair on
my neck (under my chin) that I have to shave EVERY morning or else!!
UGH! It's sooooo embarrassing, but I haven't found a wax or anything
that will work on my neck. Anyway, my point is that I always feel so
alone. I don't know anyone else that suffers from this personally and
I've always been extra-hairy to start with. Major bummer.
Glad I'm not alone.
At Sun, 26 Nov 2000, jodi wrote:
>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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Marsha
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