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Waxing -- Techniques? Good Products?From: MB (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:39:13 -0500 (CDT)
My beard is getting ahead of my ability to keep plucking and shaving is driving me nuts. It irritates my skin even with good shaving cream and a quality man's razor -- I break out afterwards no matter what. So I've been trying waxing but am not sure if I am doing it correctly. I tried a sugaring type wax from Nair that was supposed to be heated in the microwave and rolleon. It was about useless for me. I am now trying some wax strips from Sally Hansen that seem to work much better, but still leave 10-20% of the hair behind. Is this normal or could I improve my technique? I've been washing my face first then swabbing the area with rubbing alcohol to remove the grease and prevent infection. I'm pulling the strips against the direction of hair growth as the directions say. The particularly difficult places are the two coarsest spots to either side of the point of my chin. The wax leaves much less behind on the mustache and the neck. In case it matters, I am a dark strawberry blonde going grey and my beard is a mix of white and red. (I laughed when I first saw the hair color on the wax strip -- it looks blonde on my face. Every man in my father's family regardless of hair color has a red beard =:-o LOL). Any other advice? I did a search in the archives and saw a bunch of stuff about lasers but that's utterly out of the question financially. Same for the hormone cream stuff my doctor was willing to prescribe but my insurance company wouldn't cover. $5-10 for a wax kit beats a $20 co-pay even if they did cover it.
-- MB
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