Orangu-Tang?
Parissa is the only one to use. The first brand I tried was Moom, but then I noticed Parissa makes exactly the same product at half the price. Come on.
The best thing about sugar is easy cleanup. If you’re in a hurry and just need to do a little, Parissa strips are the quickest and easiest. They need no preparation–plastic strips coated with a bit of balsam. But it would be too expensive to use them for a big job, that’s where the sugar comes in.
Waxing/sugaring pulls the hairs out by the roots. This is called epilation. Depilatory is totally different. It chemically dissolves the hairs off of the surface, but leaves the roots in, so the hair grows back immediately. Waxing keeps it away for weeks at a time.
The only drawback to waxing (assuming you don’t mind a bit of, you know, pain) is that you have to wait for the hair to grow out enough for the sugar to get a good grip on it. Right after waxing, I wear the sheerest hosiery, which gets progressively more opaque until the cycle begins again…
Getting a two-hour sting from the chemical is being mean to your skin. The sugar action smarts like holy blazing hell for about two seconds, but the pain fades so quickly that you can learn to not mind it. The stuff is mild on your skin too. Toss the chemicals in the rubbish.
I haven’t tried that, as I am a landing-strip type of gal (out of necessity- if you MUST know- :o ). I guess what I am saying is this: I can tell you from personal experience, it is great for moderate-duty bikini waxing. I haven’t tried a Brazilian with it, but I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work just as well.
I’ll gladly trade in a two-hour chemical sting for a few seconds of sugar-action pain for the Brazilian job. 
Thanks!! I’m going to give it a shot. My Nair bottle is just about empty anyway, so I’m going to pitch it out and try the sugar.
I’m going to give the Brazilian a try with the sugar waxing. Thanks!!
Good lord. Why do you hate yourself? :eek:
It likes you. Mine was an ad for tweezers and “Chicago Hair Removal”. 
Wabbit Season…!
silver1, please tell us how it turned out. Unless it was a disaster, in which case I would plead with you to curse my name, salt my fields and dry up my cow via PM, rather than in public.
She hasn’t been back. I wonder if her hoo-ha is glued together with the sugar.
And then she tried to take a hot bath to get it off, and now she’s glued to the tub, too. The things we do for beauty…
Okay, ladies, is it possible to have hair too long to wax/sugar? I haven’t shaved my legs in months, but want to wax them before having knee surgery in a few weeks and my leg hair is probably a half inch long at this point, so (a) do I need to trim it up so the wax/sugar will grab it, and (b) how soon before my surgery do you think I should do it so I get the maximum period of hairlessness while I’m all bandaged up?
If it gets any longer than a half inch, trim it before waxing. I guess a quarter inch (7mm) is the optimal length.
As a man, I find this thread fascinating. I guess I’d be out of line to ask for pics. But they would only be used for educational purposes, promise. Don’t forget what the Dope is all about.
I’ve been told when having my back done that yes, it can be too long. Oh, the hair can still be removed. But it’s more painful.
I have to resurrect this thread as I just became a huge fan of the Parissa product recommended here.
I don’t shave my legs, and I don’t shave my armpits, but for many years I have been tweezing my unibrow, my lopsided psuedo-mustache that for some reason grows in darker/thicker/longer on my right upper lip than the left, and the handfull of chin hairs that can grow crazy long and thick, seem to be attached deeply to some facial nerves, and just generally drive me nuts.
Less than 10 minutes, and my face is now annoying-hair-free. No messy clean-up. I absolutely fscking love this stuff. It didn’t do so good on my chin, but that is the least of my problems, and I can easily keep up with them with the tweezers every couple of weeks.
I totally know what you mean.
I don’t have a cite handy, but I believe that sensation is actually your nerves basically being confused (for lack of a better term) because they aren’t detecting the minute movements of the hairs that aren’t there anymore. I haven’t shaved my legs for many many years now, but during the transition period when I was still deciding to shave them now and then, I would totally feel a similar tingling/numbness after shaving. Wind blowing against the skin of my freshly shaved legs was particularly odd after having had hair there for a long time. So much of the sensation that I was used to feeling was actually the movements of the hairs being transmitted down the strands to the root and the nearby nerves.
I imagine the upper lip hairs are constantly moving, even if it is just minutely, due to air moving in and out of your nose as well as the tiniest movements of your mouth and face, and those nerve cells get used to receiving that input all the time.
Now I have the Karate Kid movie stuck in my head.
“Wax on. Wax off.”
So does this sugar stuff leave a sweet aftertaste? Enquiring mens want to know.