Need some beauty salon advice

[Wills]

Hi,

For my birthday I've been given some beauty salon vouchers. I rarely frequent beauty salons except when I remember to do my bikini line etc so I need some basic questions answered so that when I go in I don't look like a complete prat.

1. What's a hollywood?
2. dd1 (6) started talking about my "moustache" - I've never suffered before but obviously need to start. I've £25.00 to put towards treatment and could top this up a little. Is it better to have it waxed, bleached, electrolysis or something called "intensive pulse light hair removing" - errrmm what the heck is that?
3. What's a sixtus pedicure
4. What's a paraffin wax (sounds momre like a barbecue!)
5. What happens during a facial.

There you go! Hope somebody can explain.

Hi Wills,

In order of your questions:

1)A Hollywood is an extreme form of bikini wax - everything off! (ouch)
2) Bleach will just lighten the hair on your tache, not remove it, waxing will remove the hair, and will need to be done every 4 to six weeks, and you will get regrowth (where the hair grows back, but is not yet long enough to wax off). Electrolysis and IPL (laser hair removal) are more or less permananet, but electrolysis takes longer, as ech individual hair is treated with an electric current, usually by inserting a needle into each hair follicle, and passing the current through. Can sting a bit tho! IPL is a pulsed laser, where you shave the hair off before treatment, and then treat the area with the laser a few times, and the theory is the hair should be mostly gone.
3) I'm not sure about a sixtus pedicure, maybe someone else can help?
4) Paraffin wax is usually part of a manicure or pedicure, and it is when you get creams applied to your ands, they are thn immersed in warm liquid paraffin wax, , which is then allowed to cool and solidify, the heat is supposed to help the lotions to penetrate, and to soften the skin.
5) A basic facial involves , A through Cleanse and tone, maybe some steam applied to the face, your balckheads and spots can then be removed by the thrapist squuezing them out individually with a special tool or tissues and her fingers, then a massage and finally a mask to finish. There are variations including no extraction, extra massage, elctric currents to stimulate the skin, different sorts of massage, and lots of different lotions and potions are also applied.

HTH

sorry about all the typos, have 2yr old, trying to drag me away from the computer!

don't wax your moustache! A beautician told me once that all the tugging is very bad on the skin, just where you don't need it. She got bad folds and wrinkles from it (at least she assumes the moustache waxing was the cause).

If it's not too much, maybe bleach or use a hair removal cream for the face. Don't think you should waste your beauty salon vouchers on that though.

Try the sixtus pedicure and tell us what it is!

Wills, a moustache is a sign of a hormonal imbalance. I´d check it out with your doctor!

Ugh! The idea of a stranger squeezing my spots is a little repulsive! That's private surely. Besides I haven't got any.... The only time I've suffered was when my mum persauded me to start using cleaner and tonic etc. Spots appeared all over the place and she tried to assure me they were coming out and that they'd been hidden all along. To which I told her they could stay hidden (lurking as she called it) and haven't really suffered since (except the odd one at times of severe stress or bad periods).

OK you've put me off the waxing, and definitely off the electroylsis (haven't recovered from my mother persauding a woman to pluck my eyebrows when I went along for my wedding makeup test). Even labour didn't make my eyes water!

So am I starting to sound like hairy neandethal woman yet. I'm not (well erm haven't had bikini line done yet as my newborn is only just 4 weeks so possibly I am a little).

Thanks for the advice though.