To ask for your beauty horror stories (horror at bikini wax today)

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So I went for my first bikini wax in over two years today. Dc is 18 months and I was last waxed in early pregnancy. Wasn't quite as bad as I thought (was hairy mess but beautician was lovely and pain not too great). So far, so good.

Lovely beautician asked if I could 'just hold this out the way'. I start looking for stray bit of shirt, towel, paper napkin things, looking for something to hold out the way before the horror descended and I realised she meant my c-section flab. Yes that's right. My actual stomach.

Oh the shame. Imagine being asked to hold your actual stomach out of the way of the hair you've been growing on your vag for two years. Thankfully i have a sense of humour and

Name changed due to embarrassment and horror.

Spill ladies - worst beautician moments.

Hedgehog I've had one of those! The therapist said " I'm just going to massage your 'upper stomach area' and then proceeded to give my boobs a proper seeing to!
Upper Stomach Area indeed!

First weekend away with now dh. Very new to self grooming. One wax strip on bikini line, too painful decided to use hair removal cream ... which burnt all the skin off waxed area. Sudocream and loose cotton knickers were all I wore on dirty weekend away!

Sham it would take two of them to lift mine!!

Christ hedgehog!! Did you complain afterwards when you clocked it was odd?!!

Not mortifying in quite the same way, but when I was a student I saved up to treat myself to a haircut at a really fancy salon. The hairdresser chopped half my eyebrow off while cutting my fringe. I was too embarrassed to say anything, so paid a fortune then burst into tears outside.

On a similar note, another (my regular) hairdresser once sliced a chunk out of my ear. She was really apologetic, didn't charge me, told me she was completely hungover, and said never to book on a Saturday again.

Hedgehog

I used to travel a lot for work and found massage / scrub of boobs is pretty common in mainland Europe. Never in the US, occasional in the U.K. Def no nipple twiddling though :/

Poobum she did one at a time
I've had a boob massage too In Turkey. Me and Dp both went for a full body massage at the lovely hotel we were staying at. Dp got more than he bargained for when a big burly hairy bloke came to get him for his massage. Apparently they only do same sex massage as its a Muslim country. I was killing myself laughing at dps face.

Damn, I feel like my boobs have missed out. I think they're too doughy now for that. Before the kids it was all suspenders and waxing and heels and endless torture beauty routines. Now I only look in the mirror if there's something in my eye haha. Think I'll go tell my husband I love him lol

When I was 18 I paid for my own haircut. This being the late 70's I wanted a Cleopatra bob. The stylist started at a shoulder length at one side, by the time she'd got around to the other ear she was up to ear lobe level. As I watched in stunned horror she then proceeded to even everything up so I ended up with a hideous pageboy looking thing. As a finishing touch she cut my fringe so it was about half an inch long. It is the only time I have actually wished I did not have to go out in public and I had to walk all the way home with this thing that made me look like a servant in the background of a Holbein portrait. My mother laughed at it too which did not help.

Several years later I met DH and his family. Talking to future MIL it turned out this woman had a reputation throughout the area for the general crappiness of her haircuts.

I had my revenge on my mother as she then ended up going to this woman to get her hair done. At one point I did persuade her to go to the hairdresser I went to in the area where DH and I lived. He later asked me why my mother's hair had been styled to make it look like a sheep's fleece.

Fortunately the hairdresser is now retired so people living West of Bracknell can get their hair cut with more peace of mind.

There was also the unfortunate occasion when I got my hair dyed. The hairdresser bleached it first. As we were waiting for everything to do what it needed to do I mentioned that usually people were careful about bleach on my hair as it tended to go orange. He blenched and quickly rinsed my hair. Peach. My hair went peach. It was also strangely curly for some reason. When DH saw it he was mostly speechless and then tried to pretend it looked perfectly fine. So did I. It really, really didn't. I looked like a debauched angel.

I went in for an eyebrow threading when the woman asked me if I would like my top lip threading. When I declined, she said 'really, are you sure?!' I declined again, and she said 'okaaay' like I was making a huge mistake.

I didn't realise it was that bad.

I've remembered another one, but it was in hospital, rather than the salon.

I'd ODed and was in A&E, drifting in and out of consciousness. I have a vague memory of them undressing me and moving my boobs to get ECG stickers on me. When I was slightly more with it later on, the nurse asked me to lift my boob up myself. I asked if she could do it for me again (wtf I must still have been off my head ) and she said no, you do it please I did as I was told.

First time I went for a bikini wax the woman sniggered and said 'people usually like to trim it first'

I'm another one who went for an eyebrow thread and ended up with a full facial wax also, I was too embarrassed to refuse. The thing is, I need another one now because all the fluff is back with avengence. I must admit though, I couldn't half tell the difference and it was not expensive. I felt a right idiot sat in the chair with everyone walking past. though.

I think you have to be a special kind of brave to be threaded in the middle of a shopping centre or the window of Superdrug.

God. These stories are why I see to my own body hair!

I went for a bikini wax. She's a friend of a friend and is lovely but that made the whole thing worse. Despite having been at least 3 times I must have forgotten protocol and lay on the bed with my knickers off completely. In my defence I'd had a smear the day before and put it down to muscle memory! I was mortified.

808, you could see a difference but you didn't need it doing anyway?

I went to get my sister from the salon after she had eyebrows and tache done. Therapist said "oh, did you want to make an appointment?"

Thing is, I probably over pluck brows as they do the slug thing but it made paranoid about tache....which I thought I didn't have...I think no one is allowed even a tiny bit of downy hair in a salon?!

intheknickersoftime did you mean to say she dyed your eyebrows?

I didn't ask for it, but I knew it was there, I'm very fair skinned so when I saw my face in sunlight I could see the light fluff.i just thought I could get away with it, as it was not that noticeable, well she obviously spotted it.Afterwards it felt very tight and when I touched my face it was really smooth, when the initial pain wore off that is.

808 I'm the same, have very fair facial hair, but my god there's a lot of it I like to tell myself it's not visible unless in direct sunlight, but when I do wax it, I notice a huge difference.

mumofthemonsters808 do you mind me asking, was it top lip only or 'peach fuzz* all over? I have peach fuzz, always have, and would love to know what it's like to have it removed.

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I also got asked to take down my swim suit for a boob massage in Turkey...I declined.
A few years ago, a friend and I went to a salon for bikini waxes and as we came away I noticed she paid more than me. When asked, she confessed they'd said to her that the normal price was for a normal bikini wax but hers was a vast amount of hair so they needed to charge extra

Years ago. Manager in a busy office. Young man points at me and says 'Why all the hair' (referring to my chin)...

Another one. I am (honestly) a fairly intelligent, mature chacater but for some unknown reason, in my late twenties I thought it might be an idea to bleach my teeth with hydrogen peroxide. Must've been a moment of madness. The substance reacted with my gums and actually made a NOISE and then my gums went white. I rang my dentist in blind panic and insisted the dentist himself come to the phone immediately because this was an emergency (he did, bless him). I suspect he thought I was utterly nuts. (I was fine after a couple of hours).

Jackelope I got that exact same haircut at a super-expensive salon! Was too intimidated to say anything about how awful it looked and how bad I felt. Cried my bloody eyes out all the way home. Worse thing was my boss had bought me vouchers for the salon for my birthday. I was thrilled because she always went there and her hair always looked gorgeous. I must have got the work-experience lad or something because even my boss was appalled by how horrible it was.