PCOS Messages for April, 2002: Re: Waxing -- Techniques? Good Products?

Re: Waxing -- Techniques? Good Products?

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:00:17 -0500 (CDT)

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well, for starters, they can see the hair in ways that you can't... :-)

to be honest, i did have a chin wax done once... and never again. it worked well enough, but in order for the course nasty hair of my chin to be waxable, it has to grow to a good length... and frankly, i'm not wiling to let the hair on my chin grow to a good length!!!

i know the nair sugaring wax you spoke of earlier. it works fine for fine hair or longish hair, but it doesn't work for hair that is short and course. most waxes seem to have trouble getting short coarse hair... which makes facial waxing a bit of a conundrum. YES i know the results would be good BUT i know i'd have to let it grow and grow before i can wax it. i'd rather deal with plucking every day than growing a full beard just so i can go in for a wax!

i pluck my chin hairs. i know i know i know, you shouldn't... but i think that for a lot of us, it really is the only solution. SOMEday i'll get laser...

for my "moustache" which is blonde and sorta fine but can get long at times, i use sally hansen's wax... not the sugaring kind, but the actual wax wax. it comes in square slabs, three with a little dish and a spreader, and smells like honet (because it's beeswax...) melt it in the microwave... spead a little on each side of my upper lip... and ZIP, it's off. it takes a little practice to get used to the waxy sort of wax that you just use, as opposed to the sugaring wax you use those cloth strips with... but for the moustache, the results can't be touched. this stuff is the best. and what i really like about it is you never need to buy more. well, at least, i've never had to... you get three slabs in a little tub, as mentioned. after i zip off the wax, i drop it back in the tub. it gets melted again and reused next time. since the hair i am removing from my upper lip is by no means excessive, and since it's relatively fine, and since i onlt do this ever two months or so... well, i've been using and reusing the same tablet of wax for a year now. i don't see using a new tablet any time soon. i highly reccomend this stuff if your moustache sounds like mine. if it's more course, i don't know what ta tell ya...

i have only tried this on my neck/chin once, when i was feeling brave enough to let it all grow for a week or so... and i decided i'll take daily plucking over worrying about this sort of growth.

and as i said... some day i'll get laser. i'm hoping that in a few years, prices will drop even more, and they'll perfect it for lighter hair... or else maybe my PCOS will do a complete reversal and I won't have excess body hair anyway. (Keep dreaming, i know...)

- jodi

At Tue, 23 Apr 2002, MB wrote: >
>At Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Renee wrote:
>>
>>Try going to a salon for a professional wax. They'll get everything, and be
>>able to see the area better than you can.
>>
>>Renee
>
>Not an option. I can't afford it and I'm an asthmatic who reacts
>severely to the perfumes and chemicals that taint the air in salons. I
>don't even go to get my hair cut -- just wear a simple style that I can
>trim myself.
>
>What do they do differently in order to get everything?
>
>--
>MB
>

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