Bikini waxing

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I've never done it but am tempted this summer.
Can someone please tell me, explicitly, what is done?
Step by step please, and no, I'm not trying to perv, but I really have no idea what is done, and if I'm going for it, I need to know!

Same boat, always been to shy to go to a salon.

If you want more than just your bikini line done, ie a Brazilian or Hollywood, it's very intimate. They do your lips and between your cheeks. So if you're shy it won't be for you. The result is amazing though. I'll never go back.

They give you paper knickers to wear but prefer it if you don't bother with them!

It's a bit weird talking about holidays or whatever while another woman is pouring hot wax on your bits. The things we do for beauty!

Beautician will show you into the room and tell you to undress by removing your bottom half, leaving pants on; they leave the room.

They leave you a wee bit of time to do this and you lie on the bed, sometimes covering up with a towel.

Then the beautician comes back in and asks you where you want the wax to go to, so you pull your pants at one side and hold it. Then they wax that area. They moisturise the waxed area when it has been all done.

Then the beautician will walk round and do the other side, sometime checking the sides are even by looking back at the previous side. They will again moisturise this area.

Finally they offer if you want "some off the top" and if you do the beautician will wax where you want the wax to go to, by being shown by you, as you will again hold your pants down at the top, to where you want it to go to.

You are given privacy to get dressed, once you are all done, as the beautician will go out of the room again.

It is all very quick and easy really!

So you're up on their bed, legs akimbo?
Naked from waist down?
I've used Veet before and I really like the smoothness but cannot be bothered with the faff.

MyChild I have had lots of bikini waxing done, as per my other post, but I have always been too freaked out about how intimate the Brazilian or Hollywood would be, although I am curious about it! I would love to try one, but would have to go to a different salon to the one I usually go to, since I know both beauticians there, and it would be so embarrassing!

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So, assuming you want more done, would pants have to be removed?
Not sure I'm brave enough tbh...

Beauticians have seen more boonies than you have had hot dinners. There is very few things that would shock them! So don't be embarrassed.
I have everything whipped off. Going to have it laddered, have had Brazilian laser now going to have Hollywood, I hate the feeling if having hair down there.

I've never left my knickers on for a Brazilian wax. Yes, they do get very close but seriously, yours is not the only one they've ever seen.

It must hurt like hell though, especially if you have it all whipped off?

The waiting and anticipating is worse than the reality. I don't like Brazilians or Hollywoods as I find it too much so I ask for a high bikini wax and get the underside and top bit done too - a good idea if you are a novice. Don't be embarrassed.

Sometimes they give you paper pants, the procedure is as described above. You also usually have to pull the skin so it's really taut - worth doing in my experience as the finish is cleaner. Opt for hot wax it's more effective than strips and seems to be less painful. You usually looked like a plucked chicken afterwards and feel a bit sticky but after a shower the stickiness goes and by the next morning the plucked chicken look is gone. Don't trim it or anything before but if it is very long ask the beautician if she will trim it before.

Finally not all beauticians are equal some are much better than others - I had a very rough bikini wax on holiday awhile back and the woman was rough and I got lots of ingrown hairs. Go to somewhere reputable.

I'm thinking of having IPL to reduce hair on my bikini line - I'll do it in winter.

Go for hot wax at a good salon and you'll be fine. I've been having Brazilians every 4-6 weeks for nearly 10 years. It really doesn't hurt

Yes, Hot Wax (as opposed to warm strip wax) does hurt less and is less likely to cause ingrown hairs.

I'm just heading off for my 6-weekly appointment, I have a playboy wax. Everything off underneath, just a tiny bit left on top. I don't get embarrassed anymore, it diesn't really hurt, and the therapists see it all the time. It's just another body part to them.

I have never taken my knickers off for a bikini wax OP.. Still goes quite high on the sides and a bit of top + underneath bits. I then use hair trimmer to keep the rest short

I had it done once and the after effect is fantastic and I wished it would have lasted forever. But laying on the table naked from the waist down while a complete stranger works on your lips was the most embarrassing time in my life. It felt like I was naked for hours and there was nothing I could do about it. Definately not for me!!

Yes for a hollywood, you have to take your pants off. Take a painkiller before your appointment if you are really nervous about the pain. Although I don't find it too bad.

If you've ever had your eyebrows waxed or threaded - in my experience, a bikini wax is less painful than that (and I still submit to having my eyebrows done.)

I've always had the pull your knickers to the side method, never gone for full Hollywood or Brazilian (mostly because you need more time for an appointment for those, and I've never been that organised - which is a bit of a rubbish reason, but I guess if I really cared, I'd get that organised.)

Regarding the full wax what happens as it grows back - does it look a mess for two weeks while you wait to get to right length? Never done it but tempted to try just to see what it is like.