# First time bikini wax **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375 "2007-05-01T21:08:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/1 "2007-05-01T21:08:26Z")
For my birthday, Mother-in-Law gave me a gift certificate for a pedicure at a local spa. I decided to use the certificate today and took a look at the spa’s service menu. Along with nail treatments, they had waxing. Every now and again, I have considered getting a bikini wax. Using hair removing lotions and creams only last a week and razor burn is awfully uncomfortable. Today I thought, “Hey, why not?” The lady who was assigned to me was very nice. I told her that this was my first time doing this and she kindly explained the process to me. Before disrobing, I excused myself to the restroom. On the side of the toilet was what appeared to be an armrest. Closer examination revealed that this object had buttons. Curious, I pressed the one with the [“woman”](http://www.eastlakederry.com/images/IMG_3823.jpg) icon and was squirted with warm water! :eek: Another first today: using a bidet. The waxing wasn’t as painful as I feared. Usually, I’m very shy, especially about having someone examine my nether regions. The spa employee was very respectful and professional and that put me at ease. (Honestly, I need to get used to this. When the time comes for the Mouseling’s birth, it will seem like **everyone** has had a good long look at my woman bits.) My toe nails are pink, a color I never wear, but I liked this shade. Now, after the wax and the pedicure, I feel very sexy. 😃 :eek: OMG! Maybe I’m becoming a girly-girl. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/2 "2007-05-01T21:46:51Z")
Good thing you didn’t push the “ATR” button! ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/3 "2007-05-01T21:56:25Z")
Did you go for the sides or a full brazilian? I was scared of the pain the first time but I love it. I have been cutting back on extras like this so this month I skipped the brazilian and went back to shaving. Never go back. Never. Nahh uh uh. Don’t even think about it. You’ll not respect yourself in the morning. PS - the first time is the worst. Next time it’s not even as bad. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/4 "2007-05-01T22:34:33Z")
This thread is worthless without pictures. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/5 "2007-05-01T23:41:05Z")
[QUOTE=ShelliBean] Did you go for the sides or a full brazilian? I was scared of the pain the first time but I love it. I have been cutting back on extras like this so this month I skipped the brazilian and went back to shaving. [/QUOTE] I had what they called a “deep bikini.” Its more than the sides, but not quite as much as a brazilian. Much to my surprize, it feels and looks really good. 🆒 [QUOTE=Tristan] This thread is worthless without pictures. [/QUOTE] I tired to take a picture of my cute, pink toes with a dramatic grey cat background but the lighting wasn’t right. Sorry. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/6 "2007-05-02T01:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I tired to take a picture of my cute, pink toes with a dramatic grey cat background but the lighting wasn’t right. Sorry. 😛 [/QUOTE] Well at least some pictures that are relevant to the thread title at least, I mean for Og’s sake we suffered through the vibrator thread among others and now this. ☹ Your all titillation and no gratification woman. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/7 "2007-05-02T01:34:00Z")
Perhaps the OP had what some spas call a Playboy Bikini, which is more than the regular bikini wax but not all the way like the Brazilian. I’ve thought about doing this too. I may give it a shot soon. Pics are not guaranteed, however. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/8 "2007-05-02T01:34:08Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] . (Honestly, I need to get used to this. When the time comes for the Mouseling’s birth, it will seem like **everyone** has had a good long look at my woman bits.) l. [/QUOTE] You realize, of course, that by 40 weeks you won’t _care_ that half the hospital staff will have looked at your bits, as long as they get the Mouseling out? ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/9 "2007-05-02T02:33:39Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] Well at least some pictures that are relevant to the thread title at least, I mean for Og’s sake we suffered through the vibrator thread among others and now this. ☹ Your all titillation and no gratification woman. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I’m the wife of an amature photographer. Sometimes I swear he loves his cameras more than me! (I kid . . . mostly. 😃 ) On my wish list is a decent digital camera so I can post pics - of kitties not pussies. 😛 [QUOTE=] You realize, of course, that by 40 weeks you won’t care that half the hospital staff will have looked at your bits, as long as they get the Mouseling out? [/QUOTE] You’re right. Up until recently, I have always tried to keep the number of people who have seen me naked to a minimum. That goal has gone with the wind. Who knows, maybe I’ll take up nude sun bathing or something. (Ah no. I’m fish-belly white and it doesn’t take me long to turn fire engine red. Can’t get sunscreen everywhere.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/10 "2007-05-02T04:24:02Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] . Can’t get sunscreen everywhere.) [/QUOTE] Silly! That is what MouseSpouse is for! And what was his reaction to the waxing? Have him take a close look at the Sony Alpha DSLR—not perfect, but much bang for the buck. And he will be taking many pictures soon… ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/11 "2007-05-02T10:35:35Z")
[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger] Good thing you didn’t push the “ATR” button! [/QUOTE] Thats only a problem for us blokes. 😛 That is such an old joke, and you beat me to it. Si ---
**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/12 "2007-05-02T13:32:16Z")
[QUOTE=si\_blakely] Thats only a problem for us blokes. 😛 That is such an old joke, and you beat me to it. Si [/QUOTE] I don’t get it 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/13 "2007-05-02T13:42:59Z")
[QUOTE=AHoosierMama] I don’t get it 😕 [/QUOTE] It’s an old gag about a man trying out a super-hi-tech Japanese ladies’ toilet, and being warned not to press any buttons. But he experiments with “WW” (warm water) and “PP” (powder puff) without harm, before (as is the way of such jokes) he goes once too often to the well and pushes “ATR” Automatic Tampax Remover :eek: ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/14 "2007-05-02T13:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=AHoosierMama] I don’t get it 😕 [/QUOTE] A guy is flying first class. It’s an empty flight, and the gents toilet has a malfunction, so the stewardess tell him that he can use the First Class ladies, but that he must not press any of the buttons except the one labelled _Flush_. He agrees, and uses the loo several times (long haul). Eventually he is about an hour from his destination, and nature calls. He slips into the toilet, and does what he has to do. While sitting there, he sees the panel of buttons, and he can’t resist (like Mouse\_Maven). He presses the **BW** button. A jet of warm water caresses his nether regions. Ahh - Butt Wash. He presses the **DB** button. Warm air blow his butt dry. He’s feeling pretty confident. He stabs the **ATR** button. He wakes up in hospital, doctors and nuses gathered round, and the stewardess. She looks at him, and says - you pushed the button, didn’t you? He nods, aware of a serious lack down low. What does ATR mean? Automated Tampon Remover Si and you get the joke in stereo ---
**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/15 "2007-05-02T14:30:28Z")
Ummm… Thanks, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/16 "2007-05-02T14:54:43Z")
[QUOTE=The Vorlon] Silly! That is what MouseSpouse is for! And what was his reaction to the waxing? Have him take a close look at the Sony Alpha DSLR—not perfect, but much bang for the buck. And he will be taking many pictures soon… [/QUOTE] The waxing was poorly timed. He’s been taking an online Java class and finals are next week. I told him, expecting some fun, but he was more interested in studying. ☹_sigh_ The honeymoon is over. I’ll mention the Sony to him. My Nikon was stolen a while back :mad: and I’d like to get back into photography. I like macro photography, Spouse likes landscapes. Sharing a camera hasn’t worked because we need different settings and Spouse isn’t crazy about my preferred subject matter. Spouse’s photo fantasy: Working for National Geographic, assigned to Alaska and Northern Canada. My photo fantasy: Becoming established as a pathology photographer. Taking detailed pics of tissues for publication. ---
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/17 "2007-05-02T15:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] The waxing was poorly timed. He’s been taking an online Java class and finals are next week. I told him, expecting some fun, but he was more interested in studying. ☹_sigh_ The honeymoon is over. [/quote] … MouseSpouse needs to get his priorities straight! A waxing is NEVER poorly timed. There are things that are _more important_ than Java in this world! 😃 You march right in there, smack him upside the head, and tell him I said so! Geez. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-time-bikini-wax/402375/18 "2007-05-02T15:40:24Z")
Amen. You get you some nookie, woman! Git!