Being both bashful, and rather unfortunately hirsute, I have spent more on wax strips in the past year than most women do on… let’s say… haircuts.
On April Fool’s day of 2006, I lost my dear UpsideDownAmber in a terrible accident. OK, maybe it wasn’t so much an “accident”, as it was “her breaking up with me”. Mere technicalities aside, the point is, I find myself presently single and on the prowl.
After using all but the dregs of my warm wax to do my legs while watching The West Wing DVDs (doesn’t everybody?), I thought; “Why not go all the way? You know girls who wax their own bikini lines. How hard can it be?”
Oh, how hard, indeed. :smack:
Two applications, and I had to stop. Thank heaven I had extra bottles of oil to clean it off my skin.
A trip to Pharmaprix on my lunch break yielded a new hope, a promise of smoothness with ease; body sugar. “It will be lighter, thinner, easier to work with,” I thought. “I can heat it up just using a lamp, aaaand it’s water-soluble for easy cleanup!”
Boy, was I ever right. After many misadventures in depilation, I have found something that is affordable and easy to use. It’s not as painful as wax, it’s easier to apply and manipulate, and you can be just as effective doing only a small area at a time.
My last thought on the matter was; “Why did no one tell me about this before? This is like the Facial Moisturizer Epiphany all over again. The sisterhood let me down, but let me be a lamp onto the feet of some poor other girl afflicted with Gorillagroin!”
And that’s how I became the standard-bearer for the Body Sugar Brigade. Join us, and be free of unsightly unibrow!
Ooooh, I need some of that. I wax everything. But everytime I find a formula that I like, the manufacturer updates the product with a helpful new ingredient that either burns, smells bad, or is harder to remove. What is the brand name/manufacturer of body sugar?
(You know what else I have always wished for? A really, good girlfriend to trade wax duty with. But I live in the South with the conservative ladies, and they would never go for it.)
The one I use is Parissa. I used their wax before I discovered the sugar. Oh! Another good thing about it: you don’t need to heat it up as much. It works perfectly well just above body temperature - no need to walk the line between “thicker than molasses in January” and “leaves permanent scars from the scalding”.
Does the sugar product work the same as wax? (Smooth goo onto skin. Smooth cloth over goo. Yank cloth, goo and hair.) I recently started using Gigi Brazilian Hard Wax… I love that stuff! Super smooth! And barely painful. I’ve never tried sugar-stuff. Beaucarnea, I know what you mean about needing a girl friend to wax with.
(and why is the Google ad about the second coming of Christ? :dubious: )
Yes, Mrs Johnson, with the difference that the sugar can be rinsed off with any-temperature water.
Veet started selling some sugar-based pre-loaded strips around here a couple years back and what I’d like to know is where was this for the last 20 years. They come in different sizes for different areas. You just rip the two sides off each other, stick one on, pass your hand over it a few times in the direction of the hair and rip. No warming anything. I’ve never been able to use creams because they irritated my skin horribly without doing anything to the hair; peroxide, same. So it was wax or shave.
I must try this “sugaring”. I don’t like shaving, but I don’t like having other people perform cosmetic procedures on me. I don’t even like getting pedicures, never mind getting waxed. Depilitories are always too rough on my skin.
It says on the box “all types” of hair (they usually specify if they are for fine, coarse, face, legs, whatevs). But I wouldn’t use it on less than 5 days’ growth.
And who knew I would end up making a “band name” thread? Well, I guess it is MPSIMS…
I used Veet for the first time last week. I have in the past used various incarnations of Nair. The first time I use it, it burns but it doesn’t burn me; second time, OMG contact dermatitis get it off get it off get it off!
I got a small burn on my knee from the Veet, but everywhere else was ok. I seriously think I just need to give the hell up on staying hairless, though. It’s blonde to light red and hardly shows from a distance - but then there’s yoga class where the sweat rolls down my arms and legs and leaves trails in the hairs. Ugh.
So, this sugaring - does it work on hair that is very, very hard to pull out? I’ve tried waxing - all that pain, and about a tenth of the hairs pulled out. Sheesh. And it grows back in about two days. (That was professional waxing - they didn’t just break off the hairs. Well, I guess they might have, because they weren’t expecting hair that tough. Anyway.) My hair laughs at depilatory creams. The only thing that works for me is tweezers, and I ain’t tweezing my legs.
Oh, while we’re on the subject, does anyone else get a tingly upper lip from pulling out the hair there? A tingling that doesn’t stop until the hair grows back?
I’ve had pretty good success with plain old Nad’s actually.
I hate shaving because I get a five o’ clock shadow on my legs and it itches like crazy for the the next couple of days. If I try to shave every day, I get terrible razor burn. I think my hair must be thicker than most women’s (I’ve got the curse of PCOS, the hirsute-making hormone imbalance). I’ve used Nair and such and they did squat. Not a single hair removed.
Even with Nad’s, it definitely has to be more than a week’s worth of growth before I get good results, but it lasts around a month with some extra tweezing. Are other products better?
And wow, just thinking about doing my bikini area makes me cringe. It hurts bad enough just doing my bikini line and inner thighs! That really stings!
Can you (ahem) mow the entire lawn with the parissa body sugar? I usually use Nair bikini-area depilatory cream, and while it works well, OY the sting I have for about two hours thereafter. Plus I have to apply the soothing gel for at least two days afterwards to stop the irritation.
Have you found that the body sugar works well in this regard?
