to have a bikini wax while on my period?

[MidnightDexy]

holiday on Sunday - need bikini wax.

Unexpectedly have period. My cycle changes if stressed / ill. I'm blaming this on stress of exchanging / completing and moving house all in one week.

What is the done thing here - would it be ok to freshen up before wax, explain to beautician, and keep pants on for wax (so more of a bikini tidy round the edges than the full Brazilian I would normally have)?

Or is this a complete no-go, and I should just get my legs done (too late to cancel appt. now - will need to pay so might as well get something done).

[PurpleDaisies]

I'm another pants on while getting a bikini wax. I very much doubt the beautician would even know.

[LucyBabs]

Children have no pubic hair fatmomma The op is a having bikini line wax and oh its none of your business

[MidnightDexy]

Fatmomma I actually like to keep my pubes. Normally I ask the beautician to take it all off from the 'undercarriage' and keep the hair on my pubic bone - just a tidy at the sides. I don't do that to avoid looking like a child - that's just the way I like my vagina. But thank you for asking :)

[WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat]

I went to the salon today, was due a Brazilian plus eyebrows/lashes etc but unexpectedly came on - when I told her why I couldn't have my Brazilian she just said "oh, have you got a tampon in? Just whip your undies off, makes no difference to me". Unfortunately I hadn't considered that and was wearing a pad, so had to give it a miss, but she was completely nonplussed. I'm in Oz, but I doubt it makes much difference tbh.

[WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat]

Oh and fwiw, my beautician expects you to go commando- no paper pants even, but she's just so matter of fact that I barely notice now.

[StealthPolarBear]

There is another thread where people are horrified at the peace in church and getting too close to strangers and yet people bare all in front of their beautician?
I can only assume these are different people! I cannot imagine being so intimate with a stranger.

[DropYourSword]

It's not really being intimate with a stranger though. It's someone performing a service. I generally don't stare into peoples eyes, but have no problem going to the opticians. Don't generally let people stick their hands on my mouth, but fine at the dentists. Not old enough yet to require a mammogram but again when required, no problem. Waxers provide a service like any other. It's not intimate! I've always been treated very professionally.

[StealthPolarBear]

True. I suppose I see optician, smear, dentist as necessary evils.

[DropYourSword]

Yeah, I do see the difference after I typed that. Then I thought, I hate people seeing me with wet hair, but deal with it fine at the hairdressers!
I guess it's something that you could feel sells conscious about, but you just choose or learn not to, and frame it as any other service.

[squicketysquack]

I've done it once in a similar 'emergency' situation, therapist was totally nonplussed and said she did it all the time. Pants off, Hollywood wax, VERY thorough lady that liked to get every single hair banished. No problems at all. But yes do take extra painkillers, you will be v sensitive.

[WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat]

I don't feel like it's an intimate situation at all, however, I have quarterly Pap smears, have had a bilateral mastectomy, recon and quarterly (fake) breast exams, and have had four vaginal births.

I do, however, become rigid if friends/family try to hug me, kiss me etc, or if strangers stand too close to me in queues etc.

[Justawaterformeplease]

I've done this. I did text first and check that she didn't mind though! She didn't.

[GinSolvesEverything]

Meh. Fresh tampon, cleanse with a baby wipe, tuck the string inside and you're good to go. My therapist is always pants off in there with the hot wax and tweezers. If you tuck the string in and have good hygiene then they don't even need to know.

[ohmywhatamisaying]

Don't try to make yourself look like a child when you are an adult?????

[betsyderek]

What a Fucking idiotic comment. I knew either that poster or the other one would post a nasty comment like that. First because they always do and second because they are absolutely obsessed beyond anything else about other women's fannies. Bloody weirdos.

[MidnightDexy]

There's always one, eh?

Anyway thanks for feedback ladies. Seems I should just ask beautician her stance and take it from there.

Merci.

[Aeroflotgirl]

Fatmomma non of your business what an adult does with her body!

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

I've had a Brazilian with a mooncup in.