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Public waxing

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Boardingblues · 29/10/2013 22:48

I just don't get how women can sit in the middle of a shopping centre and have their top lip waxed! Why would you do this? Why would you make a spectator sport of the removal of hair that you hope no one knows exists? It can't be price, because if that were the issue, then there are marvellous packs for sale in the chemist that are cheap and effective (or so I have been told

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catgirl1976fucker · 29/10/2013 22:50

Maybe it's just really quick and handy or something?

I wouldn't do it because I can guarantee the minute I sat in the chair and the wax on, every single person I found attractive, every single woman who slightly intimidated me and and every single person I had ever slept with would file past and see me.

Fact.

Helendaniels · 29/10/2013 22:51

I don't really care tbh. I only have my eyebrows done though. If someone is bored enough to watch someone getting threaded that's their problem.

Meglet · 29/10/2013 22:52

yanbu. The whole face / eyebrow threading in public is weird.

I keep my hair removal to my bathroom!

Eastpoint · 29/10/2013 22:53

I wouldn't sit in the front window of Superdrug & be waxed even if they were paying me.

mrswishywashy1 · 29/10/2013 22:54

Am I the only one who thought there was a typo in the title?

Meglet · 29/10/2013 22:55

wishywashy no, I did too, until I clicked on it!

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Boardingblues · 29/10/2013 22:56

Not threading, but waxing (although I find lip and chin threading a bit odd too). Waxing is different IMHO. I didn't hang around to watch but I do wonder if the strip was held up to display the uprooted hairs to the passing shoppers and sniggering teens

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Financeprincess · 29/10/2013 22:56

Not just me then, wishywashy.

thenightsky · 29/10/2013 22:56

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this for the first time - people having threading and waxing of top lips in the middle of a shopping centre! No way I'd do it.

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Boardingblues · 29/10/2013 22:57

Perhaps public pubic waxing will be next!

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peggyundercrackers · 29/10/2013 23:00

wishywashy I hope we don't see that kind of waxing in the shopping malls!!

mrswishywashy1 · 29/10/2013 23:02

Think that's probably spending too much time on MN cos straight away we think it's pubic

mrswishywashy1 · 29/10/2013 23:03

Arf at Peggy

murasaki · 29/10/2013 23:11

I have my eyebrows done in the window of superdrug. I wish they'd move the chair, I really do, but at least with eyebrows you have your eyes shut, so can't see the people looking at you

other depilatory efforts in public would be a bridge too far.

myroomisatip · 29/10/2013 23:19

Yep. I have to say I did a double take on the title and had to open the thread to see if it was right .....

Lazysuzanne · 29/10/2013 23:26

I was astounded the first time I saw it, I'm not one for any kind of public grooming, I feel it's a private activity

HeadsDownThumbsUp · 29/10/2013 23:29

Are we supposed to put hairdressers down back alleys now. That's public grooming, isn't it.

What about nail bars? Should they black out their windows?

Or is it just female facial hair that is terrible and shameful?

Merel · 29/10/2013 23:30

You need to let your 'tache grow before it can be waxed properly anyway, so everyone you know will know you have one, they are probably just happy you do something about it (speaking as one who possesses the 'tache gene). The only thing that would bother me would be walking round with a red upper lip afterwards.

I've been threaded in superdrug before, didn't really mind. I had all sorts done to me in the window of a Turkish salon once too, that involved threading, waxing and killing stuff with fire. It felt no worse than sat in the hairdressers window with foils in (though I would freak out if my hairdresser came at me with a burning torch).

TiredDog · 29/10/2013 23:31

I'm ruralish...this is a revelation! We don't have anything like this. I don't really know that many places I could go to be dehaired anyway let alone in public

The vets maybe...

Lazysuzanne · 29/10/2013 23:33

I dont think it's shameful
I just prefer to do that kind of stuff in private.
I'm a bit shy & self conscious
is that OK with you Headsdown?

HeadsDownThumbsUp · 29/10/2013 23:36

You do what you want, Suzanne. I just don't see why people would be so shocked/astonished by others having the audacity to get some facial waxing done in public.

Lots and lots of grooming activities take place in public. Why is this one so different and repulsive?

SteamWisher · 29/10/2013 23:38

You don't walk past a hairdressers in the street and see women right up in the window having their hair done.
Same with threading - why not just move the Threading Chair to somewhere out less visible?
I'd love to have my eyebrows threaded but no way is that happening as they're either in the middle of the train station (used to be one in London Victoria) or shopping centre.

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Boardingblues · 29/10/2013 23:39

Who mentioned it being shameful? I find it weird in the middle of the shopping centre/mall concourse with no screening

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HeadsDownThumbsUp · 29/10/2013 23:45

I walk past hairdressers on the street and see women getting their hair done all the time. I see men in barbers too. I walk through shopping centres and see women getting manicures and pedicures.

Nobody ever questions this.

So what's the big difference?

LittleTulip · 29/10/2013 23:52

Yep agree weird.

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