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To ask what you wax?

101 replies

Sister77 · 13/12/2013 12:55

It's Christmas party season, I went to get my lower legs waxed, the new woman said I do a great deal for full leg and bikini, so I said yes.
I thought I was going to die.
A bikini isn't just a tidy up anymore.
She took the whole lot of and picked my whole leg up to get "any strays between your legs!"
Afterwards she did my TOES.
Am I a yeti?

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BearPear · 13/12/2013 14:01

Sister77 - that's the funniest thing I've read in days, I actually read it twice to make sure it was as funny as I thought...and it was! Bravo!

ohtanmybum · 13/12/2013 14:18

Epilator, everywhere that shows, spring and summer.

FortyDoorsToNowhere · 13/12/2013 14:39

the car.

Sister77 · 13/12/2013 14:45

It's so much easier to discuss on a forum where no one can see you! My friends would be too busy laughing and wanting to look to give me any straight answers.
And yep I feel like a pre adolescent with puberty waiting to happen!

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Xfirefly · 13/12/2013 14:49

I wax my own eyebrows and lip.

when you have a full leg wax its always includes toes....well that's how I was trained and same for places where I've worked Grin

Xfirefly · 13/12/2013 14:49

I should add...if you ask for bikini then it should be just the bikini area..the lady was well wrong to assume the whole area.

HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 13/12/2013 14:51

The only thing I wax is my dining table.

No way in hell am I pouring hot wax on myself then ripping it off, along with all the hair under it - by the roots. I particularly would not let anyone near my nethers with a bowl of hot wax.

You must all have steel coated fanjos, tbh. There'd be a me shaped hole in the roof if someone ripped out my pubes.

HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 13/12/2013 14:51

dining table is not a euphamism

ThisIsMeNow · 13/12/2013 15:02

Brecon you are lucky if you don't have any hair growing outside your knicker line. I can tell you a lot of women do and not just the odd hair, masses of forest like hair that spreads down the thighs. Plus some people have longer pubes so want slightly further inside the pant line done so no spider legs occur.

formerbabe · 13/12/2013 15:03

Only get my sideburns waxed. Everything else is epilated/shaved/threaded. I dislike the idea of having to grow the hair long enough to be waxed.

Tiptops · 13/12/2013 15:04

I have regular Brazilians and epilate underarms and legs. Couldn't care less what others think, I like it and that's all that matters. :)

mouldyironingboard · 13/12/2013 16:50

My car bonnet is nice and shiny after a hot wax and it seems to stay clean for longer.

Thisisaghostlyeuphemism · 13/12/2013 17:00

I have eyebrows threaded. Every single time they ask if I want my upper lip/tache done. Puts me in a right bad mood.

I decline.

justtoomessy · 13/12/2013 17:00

I used to wax my own underarms, legs, bikini into brazilian and back around my butt hole as I am a beast however, I got fat and when I tried to reach bikini area my belly just swung through and couldn't see bugger all!!

I now don't care much about having a brazilian and have been lucky enough to have laser treatment.

MiddleAgeMiddleEngland · 13/12/2013 17:03

Only the runners on the cutlery drawer. Otherwise they stick.

Why on earth would you want someone else messing about with your pubic hair?

Heartbrokenmum73 · 13/12/2013 17:08

Eyebrows. Once. Can't be arsed to go back. Once had them threaded - they bled! What the fuck is that all about?

Never had my legs or anything else done. I shave my armpits (when I can be bothered) and you could probably plait my leg hair at the moment.

I literally couldn't give a shit.

But I don't care what others do either apart from thinking of a) the expense of getting so much done and b) the sheer fucking faff of it all.

Not for me - there are books waiting to be read and coffee waiting to be drunk while said books are read.

Joysmum · 13/12/2013 17:14

I once had my lower legs waxed and tbh I don't think I'll bother again unless before a holiday as within 3 weeks I was hairy again. It's not worth it to me so I'll continue to shave.

Mainkster · 13/12/2013 17:38

Lower legs and eyebrows.
I shave underarms and keep bikini area vaguely tidy.
I think the complete removal of pubic hair is weird, very weird. It creates the look of a child. I wouldn't want to be with a man who wants that look, it makes me shudder.
Additionally I don't think it's liberation that women feel they want to do this, you know what they say, things like " it's for me, I like it, it's how I want to look". Rubbish, it's to appeal to men. So it's oppression not sexual liberty.

bellasuewow · 13/12/2013 17:43

I waxed once and was left covered in lavender oil as my skin went bright red, very painful and never again. I would try laser when I'm older and have pots of cash but for now I get a great result with my dh mach3.

Brummiegirl15 · 13/12/2013 21:28

I've regularly had brazilians - leaving a "landing strip" as I also think all off is a bit strange and not for me. But you have no dignity and its a bit uncomfortable having your fanjo done, but actually DP couldn't give a toss so I just veet it myself. Because I like how it looks!

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/12/2013 22:04

Speak for yourself Mainkster, nobody comments on your hair removal preference, nobody cares, so why would you generalise that it's to appeal to men and not what a woman would herself prefer when you really don't know? Do you not credit women with any awareness of themselves and their own views? Hmm

dementedma · 13/12/2013 22:10

Waxing of eyebrows, lip and chin whiskers.
Sometimes get lower leg done.
Couldn't bear the indignity of bikini/fanjo wax.

DancingLady · 13/12/2013 22:16

Nothing. Shave armpits and below the knee in summer or when I remember. Waxing hurts like the devil - life's too short.

harticus · 13/12/2013 22:20

Nothing - waste of time and money.

A packet of pound shop razors and a can of cheap shaving gunk and if I can be bothered the legs might get a going over now and then.

I can't believe that anyone would want to wax their bum hole.

YouTheCat · 13/12/2013 22:23

I wax nothing. Some bits get shaved or veeted when I can be arsed.

I embrace my inner hobbit and my hairy toes. Grin