Testicle Waxing

:shudders:

:shudders again:
I don’t care what you say, I’m going through with it. Stage 1 is already complete, I have trimmed the area. Soon Stage 2 will come into effect. Watch the news for genital related accidents, just in case.

If you want to know what waxing will feel like, take a pair of tweezers, pull out a hair or two at the same time. (go ahead, try it) Multiply by a gajillion since you’ll be pulling them all at once. I decided a long time ago that putting up with beaver stubble is preferable to enduring that kind of pain. After all, there’s a reason why the saying “got you by the short curlies” is NOT a good thing. :eek:

I’ll have you know that I do pluck hairs already… mind you that is eyebrows.

Plus, you aren’t helping matters, dopers. This is me right now: :eek:

yes, but are your eyebrows so sensitive that stroking them causes you to have an orgasm? :slight_smile:

Well…

Are you offering? :stuck_out_tongue:

Will someone PLEASE join with me in saying that this is NOT a good idea?!

Although, the ensuing schadenfreude should be quite nice.

This is NOT a good idea. Don’t wax, pluck! I’m telling you. Get yourself into a nice warm shaft of sunlight, and just pluck. It only stings the first few tugs, and it’ll getcha gonads nice and smooth. You’ll miss a few hairs, but then you can pretend that those few are the only ones that ever grew there. (Theink of them as baroque embellishment.) There’s no potential for disaster, the job can be done at your own rapid or leisurely pace, and there’s no stubble to itch you up. And you only have to do maintenance every few months.

Since there are a dearth of experienced male waxees chiming in, the opinion of this lady will have to do. For your 'do. <snicker>

A) I personally don’t find waxing in the pubic area to be all that painful. In fact, I find it a lot LESS painful than getting my eyebrows waxed.
B) Yes, it might bleed a little, where the hair gets pulled out, and be irritated for the rest of the day.
B1) I have NEVER heard of waxing taking the skin off. Cite?
C)I would NEVER consider having this area done by anything less than a trained professional. The hair grows in all sorts of funny directions down there and half the job of keeping pain to a mimimum is making quick clean pulls. Simply call a salon and ask a) if they offer this service and b)if no, whether they know a salon that does.
D) I find the effect to last about a month to 6 weeks. It’s pretty variable though… there’s no way to tell how long it will lastfor you until you do it.
E) Repeated waxing makes the hair grow in sparser. Or so my “aesthetician” (=person licensed to do waxing) tells me. Yay!

Good luck with your adventure in metrosexuality. :smiley:

How long does the hair have to be before you can wax? I’ve got like 5mm here or so, will I need more length in order to get some leverage? Does it take a lot of ‘tug’ to wrench them out, i’m worried my wee babber might not have enough tug to do it in one and we’ll be looking at a multiple rip to get it off.

My best advice is to allow it to grow to it’s full natural length before your first adventure in waxing. The salon man/lady can always trim with scissors if its if too long but the reverse is obviously not true. Yanking with insufficient grip force to pull out the hair is what REALLY hurts, not properly done waxing, IMHO.

(Typical 'merican, I’m terrible with metric but 5 mm seems like less than a 1/8 inch. That’s much too short.)

Ok, you all may have to wait a while before you hear my yelps of pain echoing across the Atlantic! Nevermind, nocturnal_tick will be screaming in agony soon so you will at least have some entertainment in the meantime. :smiley:

Now I see waxing as several thousand people shouting in my ear at once. It is a helluva lot but as one continuous drone some of the others are drowned out. Now plucking would be like each person shouting in my ear one at a time. It’s longer (like several dozen maybe hundreds) and each one can produce its maximum pain threshold. I’m leaning towards wax. Besides the nearest nice warm shaft of sunlight is my back garden, which has low fences.

Morning neighbour! (pluck) Lovely weather we’re having, isn’t it? (pluck)

I imagine many :eek: especially when my parents walk through.

Dammit lady, couldn’t you have mentioned this before I trimmed. And are you sure that I should have left it at full length because I’m talking loooooong. Oh well, I’ll look into some salons nearby and if not then by the end of the week I’ll be doing a little D.I.Y.

And as for you, WILLASS, laugh while you still can. I’m gonna reply
Oh, it was nothing
and then you’ll go RRRRRRIPPPP
and I’ll go ha ha ha OW!
because, you know, I’ll still be sore.

You’re sick, you know that? Sick I tells ya…

Hey I’m nobody’s fool, I know it’s gonna smart like a goodun!

nocturnal and Willass, before you submit to what really sounds like torture, consider getting the product that I use on my girly parts. It’s the Braun Silk-Epil. It works like an Epilator (plucks each hair very fast), but is nothing like the Epilady or traditional epilators. You need to cut the hair to about 2-3 mm (or 1/8 to just under 1/4 inch). Use scissors with rounded tips, you don’t want to poke a hole accidentally :eek:, or just shave & wait till it grows to that length.

There are many reviews about it on Amazon or on Epinions.

The most common complaint that it hurts a little to like hell, *** but only the first time***. On a scale of 1-10, 1 being an ant bite, 8 being waxing your legs and 10 being waxing your nuts, I’d say it’s a 5 but YMMV of course. When the new hair grows again in a couple weeks to a month (again, YMMV), the hair’s softer and so is plucked more easily so doesn’t hurt like the first time. Oh, and you need to kind of stretch your skin since it doesn’t work on flappy-like skin, but if you can stretch & press with one hand and hold the device in the other, it’ll work; kinda like what you’d do with a disp. razor. And I don’t work for Braun. :smiley:

And nocturnal, please, I’m so afraid that you’re going to wax at home. I don’t like the potentialness of skinless nuts on you, so please ask a salon if they’ll do it and what it’s like. I’m sure they get questions all the time.

Happened to me…

…because I didn’t follow that piece of advice.
I’d tried waxing (well, sugaring - close enough) that area once before, and had ended in tears before I’d even got to the part where you lay the cloth strip down - luckily, sugaring stuff is water soluable, so a quick trip to the shower was enough to fix the problem.
Finally, one day I tried it, bit the bullet, and it worked, without horrendous pain! Yippee! I could do it again. So time passed, and I tried the second time, spread the stuff on without crying, laid the cloth down, and ripped… and it hurt like hell, and there was blood aplenty, and yep, I’d taken the skin along with the hair and the wax.

Oops.

Well, QueenBee, there’s yer cite.

Gah, it was HelloAgain, not QueenBee.

Sorry.

i recently helped out a beautician friend by letting her practice her man waxing skills on me. (maybe practice isn’t the proper word, since it was her first time).

it wasn’t the most pleasant thing in the world, but on the scale of painful things i’ve endured, i’m not even sure it’d make the top 10. i put it just under getting a tattoo.

i was a little chaffed for a day or two afterwards, although that first one sheet wipe was goddam nirvana, i tell you…

Awwww. It’s nice to know that you dopers care so much. But I’ve made up my mind and like any man who thinks he’s brave, he’s actually too stubborn to just back down. Mum will not get me the wax so tomorrow I’m going to do it myself. (gulp)

:eek:

If I wasn’t at work I would be curled up in the fetal postion on the floor whimpering like a little girl after reading that.