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.

808 I said to my friend on the bus one day "Gosh your moustache needs doing!"

She was and said "Mine doesn't show! It's blonde!"

Turns out she was bleaching it....and I pointed out that it was JUST as visible but fair instead of dark.

She agreed and got it waxed.

To be fair, we're very close indeed ...more like sisters so she'd also point out a similar issue to me if need be.

hedgehog80 that is actually sexual abuse

The one time I went for a bikini wax. I had to ask the beautician to stop after the first two rips as I just couldn't take the pain any more. I've no idea how anyone gets it done more than once without vast quantities of interesting drugs.

So I had a lopsided bikini line - but only for about a week as the whole bloody lot grew back that quickly! I had regrowth coming through before the redness fully subsided!

No, seriously, how do you handle the pain????

I had a thread about this a few months ago and it was at the GP rather than the salon but it's too good not to share. Pap smear swab thingy broke off and try as they might the doc and the nurse could not fish it out of my fanjo. They tried ever-increasing sizes of medieval torture devices medical tweezers and forcep things. Mortifying.

I suppose that yes, it could be considered that. It was an awkward situation. An odd one though as because I felt uncomfortable yet told myself it's probably part of the treatment and then sil was so shocked it didn't really register at first that it was serious in any way, more just really odd and invasive if that makes sense
It's not something that has affected me terribly itsbjust one of those situations you look back and think, that really wasn't right

I decided to get a bikini wax in preparation for the arrival of DC2. I was 8+ months pregnant with an absolutely huge bump. When it was finished, I physically couldn't get off the couch and was like an upside-down beetle waving my arms and legs trying to sit up The young beautician was like this and ended up rolling me off the couch like a beached whale!

These are hilarious . Went to Morroco with my partner last year and i had a full body massage, then sauna and jacuzzi at the hotel we were staying at while he was by the pool.
Lady gave me a gown so i stripped to my bikini. When she came back in she said i couldnt keep my bikini on so i took my top off and then she asked me to take my bottoms off which i refused. She then gave me the weirdest look.
Fast forward to half way through the massage (first half was awful tbh), she noticed i had my nipple pierced and was very complimentary of my body. She then proceeded to lick my nipple and laughed and i just sort of layed there in shock like wtf , and then she carried on with the massage as if nothing happened. Partner almost wet himself when i told him afterwards, making jokes about what else she would have licked if I'd taken my bottoms off like she said

thomas sorry that just tickled me! Bless you

hannah wtf!

Ilovebannf, no . I got confused! I thought she was putting wax on them at first. I realised i was in the middle of it and thought I'd better commit! They did look terrible, my DS said i looked like a cartoon character!

She died my eyebrows not eyelashes as i said in my op, sorry that story is more confusing than anything else

Flying geese-it's peach fuzz all over.

I had my hair cut like Deidre Barlow when I was 11.

I once had my eyebrows threaded in one of those walk in places in shopping centres. The therapist made a few comments about other facial hair (I was 25... there really was none visible) and managed to persuade me to get my top lip done too.

After that was done (ouch) I carried on shopping as per usual... but slowly became aware I was getting very strange looks.

A later trip to a changing room revealed my entire top lip was bright red. With my pasty (sensitive) skin and red hair I looked completely ridiculous.

Needless to say I didn't repeat that particular treatment

Rossigigi it was mortifying at the time because the woman was so young and clearly panicking at the thought I'd be stuck there until the baby arrived. Looking back, it always make me giggle.

Oh god Hedgehog! Was it a man or woman who did that?? Reminds me of an episode of Friends where Chandler goes to Joey's tailor and comes back distraught at being felt up - Joey thought that was how it was done!

Wtaf Hannah
*makes mental note to never get massage in Morocco!

One time at my usual nail bar I decided on the spur of the moment to get an eyebrow shape & tint. The woman did the wax and I was happy with that, then as she mixed the dye she was saying repeatedly that she'd make it a little paler as black would be too dark. I agreed. My brows are dark brown, darker than my hair but still not black.

Job was done and I was handed the mirror to reveal my thin dark brown brows in the middle of a half-inch thick stripe of pale brown dye. The slugs almost met in the middle.

I was so shocked I started laughing. Assuming it was some sort of joke. Then started ranting that there was no way I was going out on the street looking like that. The phrase "what the hell have you done to my face?" was used a lot.

The beautician just couldn't see what the problem was! Thankfully one of her colleagues put her head round the door, squealed, yelled something at the first beautician in their own language which sent her scuttling out with her head in her hands, then she told me she could sort this out and used hot wax to remove the dye stripes.

The salon didn't want to charge me for the treatment so I gave the money to the 2nd lass who had sorted out my multicoloured forehead.

I went to have a lovely soothing back massage when my baby was small. Being very sleep deprived I started drifting off, only to wake myself up as a fart loudly erupted. Oh the shame!

When I had a mobile beautician come to my house, she layered the wax on and let it go too cold chatting and couldn't get it off! she was cutting at it with nail scissors and picking it with pluckers. I had to get her to stop and went to have a lukewarm bath. Was in agony. She offered to re-book, I accepted and she was a no-show. Took me a while to get the courage to go to a salon for a brazillian after that!

I've posted this before, so I've been a lazy sod and copied and pasted it

The last time I went for a massage, the woman told me to put paper knickers on. I put them on and lay on the table ready, waiting for her to come back in. It took me minutes lying there to realise the paper triangle should have gone at the front, not the back. Imagine what she'd have thought if she'd have come back in to see my minge bisected by a piece of elastic grin.

Instead she found me a bit out of breath, clammy and fidgety after doing a quick switcheroo. She probably thought I'd been masturbating.

I'm so glad that I'm so utterly horrified at the thought of strangers touching me that I'm safe from all this.

I am loving this, making me smile on a shit day.

I avoid these treatments to prevent the inevitable embarrassment that I'll get myself into!

Lol at white gums!

Made me laugh so much.

Mine was gettig a Brazilian 2 days before my wedding. Usual amazing Greek ladys shop was closed (this is at my mums). So went. So went to salon across the road. She didn't have a bloody clue. No holding the skin tight, or moving u into position to stetch the skin or after pressure. She just went at it as though waxing my legs. I had bruises all over my lady parts and blood. Ended up with loads sudocreme and no knickers for days