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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?

OP posts:
FryOneFatChristmasGoose · 13/12/2013 22:47

I epilate my legs, shave my pits and wax my upper lip. So far, so good.

I have not, as yet braced myself to go and have it done professionally.

Mainkster · 20/12/2013 10:49

The thing about having "lying" in your name is that it makes me think you are a liar, and I do know. I know everything and i know that it's the case in your case.

Women make these amendments to sexual areas to appeal sexually, end of story.
It is weird to wish to appear prepubescent, very, very weird.

Whatisaweekend · 20/12/2013 11:18

Good grief she really should have asked you how much you wanted off before ripping it all out (OUCH!). It would be a cold day in hell before I went back to that salon! In answer to your question, I have whole-leg waxes. I could not bear my bikini line being waxed - so painful and I got terrible in-growing hairs. So I spent ages saving and had it all zapped by laser. Best thing I have ever done - no more side burns on my inner thighs!!

samandi · 20/12/2013 12:26

Hair or no hair, there is quite a lot of difference between a prepubescent vulva and an adult one. I'm surprised that many people don't seem to realise that, have they not observed how their own has changed over time?

samandi · 20/12/2013 12:27

Actually, I suppose if it's covered in hair they might not have noticed.

samandi · 20/12/2013 12:28

And to answer the OP, I wax my boots.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 20/12/2013 12:32

The floor

LoonvanBoon · 20/12/2013 12:33

Nothing! I shave legs and underarms. Used to get legs waxed but got fed up with a) the general hassle of having to making appointments in advance etc. & b) the beautician making helpful suggestions about other parts that she could "do" for me.

welshnat · 20/12/2013 12:43

Mainkster - I think you obviously have never had a bikini wax or you would know that it was definitely for me - simply because it makes me a lot more sensitive, so sex is better. Nothing to do with what men want.

feesh · 20/12/2013 12:43

I have everything taken off below my belly button. My husband hates it, but I don't care as I have always hated my pubes (black, long and straight!) and was so relieved when the Brazilian became a 'thing'! I swim a lot and it is such a relief being able to relax properly in a swimsuit. Nothing in it sexual at all for me. It just makes me feel better.

Clarabumps · 20/12/2013 12:44

I wax everything. Legs,underarms, toes, full bikini off and bum bit.Blush
Yes I know, shocking! I haven't been brainwashed by men to look prepubescent. I don't like hair and prefer sex without it. And I don't wear anything whilst getting it done. I love the girl who waxes me and have been going to her for years. I sometimes think I'm more intimate with her than with DP. Ha! It's all coming out now....Wink

feesh · 20/12/2013 12:45

Also I find it really weird when waters keep your knickers on. Or even worse, paper knickers! FFS we all have the same bits. I don't wear knickers for mine and actively avoid salons where they make you keep them on as I think they see it all anyway, so why get funny about it?!

JackShit · 20/12/2013 12:47

Nothing. It's perfectly OK to have body hair Smile

PenguinsDontEatStollen · 20/12/2013 12:48

I waxed the dresser yesterday, very proud I was.

Oh, you didn't mean that...

kazza446 · 20/12/2013 13:00

Hee hee, I had my lady bits waxed last week. I usually tend to my own lady garden but being 38 weeks pregnant haven't seen down below for a while!! Asked for bikini line wax and as far as I can see I've come out with a Brazilian! She certainly wasn't frightened about getting into my nooks and crannys. It flipping killed. Felt like someone had set me on fire afterwards and I was walking more like Forrest Gump than I do normally at the momt! Having a c section next week, so makes me feel more comfortable and hygienic! Had my eyebrows done too. Prefer threading but couldn't sit in chair comfortably at the moment!

harriet247 · 20/12/2013 13:12

I had my full face waxes the other day :o way more painful than anything ive had before sweet jesus!! My make up looks amazing though so swings and roundabouts!

LightsPlease · 20/12/2013 13:13

I Brazillian wax myself less embarrassing than going to salon and cheaper.

Grennie · 20/12/2013 13:17

I don't wax anything. Why would you want to remove your pubic hair?

Grennie · 20/12/2013 13:19

And it is not more hygenic. In fact one of the problems can be ingrowing hairs.

ChubbyKitty · 20/12/2013 13:23

I wax my eyebrows and moustache - I look like some kind of dictator if I don't Hmm Blush

Legs are shaved because it grows back ridiculously fast and I'm not going through the rigmarole of waxing or veeting every two days. Toes get shaved in the summer but it doesn't really matter in winter.

Foof is veeted. I learnt a trick on mn from a lovely poster whose name I can't remember, to wear an old thong and sort of tuck it in if that makes sense? And then you don't burn your delicates with the cream and you are still able to pee after it's done. I guess it could also be used as a stencil if you wanted to leave some hair behind.

Ifancyashandy · 20/12/2013 13:35

I'd love to have a Brazillian. I had one once but I was so 'raw' and spotty afterwards - for a good 3 days - and then the hair grew back almost immediately. Same with legs - I've had a wax and then was stubbly within a week. So annoying.

So I shave armpits, legs and fango (do underneath and leave a landing strip). Have to shave legs every day in the summer / if getting kit off for a man.

Am dark haired. Not so much 'hairy' (not hairy arms etc) just it grows quickly. Annoying!

MrsDavidBowie · 20/12/2013 13:42

I am lasered.
It is very liberating...no more cares about hairy legs or bikini lines

ChubbyKitty · 20/12/2013 14:12

Infancyashandy I have the same thing, the hair is so dark! I end up with 5 o'clock shadow on my legs. I've tried several hair minimising lotions as well and it's never worked.

2rebecca · 20/12/2013 14:18

My wooden furniture.
I am happy with my bush and am delighted 1950s style swimsuits are in vogue again, a razer does for underarms and for legs in summer.

cjbk1 · 20/12/2013 14:27

"I don't wax anything, why would you want to remove your pubic hair?" because I don't want to feel like I'm washing my hair when I wash my nether regions in the shower that's why! Shock