Brasilian waxing, how do you maintain it?

[MissMissy]

what does a brizzlian way look like? I keep hearing about hem but never knew what they look like?

 

[LipglossQueen]

^^^A Brazilian is bikini wax which leaves behind a 'landing strip'.

I haven't waxed my bikini yet but I plan to try it very soon as I have waxed everywhere else; I plan to try mine at home since I bought my new wax pot.

 

[pinkbundles]

You should ask a MUTer (Andi)! She'll give you all the details from her first-hand experience!

 

[SalJ]

I have brazilians, I can't say it's any more painful that a regular bikini wax. I do have quite a high pain threshold so I don't find it that bad - it's not exactly pleasant, just not that bad!

I get it done every 4 weeks and have some regrowth after a week. I dunno how you can do it yourself though, I'm a trained beauty therapist and I can't even do my own!!

 

[SherryAnn]

I tried to do my own...I wrote about it on another board. Let me go find the thread and I will cut-and-paste it here!

Brazilian Bikini Wax at home

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------July 30, 2005

I did this the other night.

I bought a kit - equipped with everything from the wax, to spreaders, to "numbing oil" to "soothing oil" to stencils.

It worked great. I, however, have much less of a pain tolerance in that area than other girls on our board. After the first couple of rips my hand started shaking and I started feeling sick at my stomach. But I couldn't stop, because I had already done all this work, and by golly, I was going to finish.

Yeah, right.

That was until some of the wax dried almost instantly. While I was pulling up from the bottom, the stuff on top turned into something similar to peanut butter brittle. I was doing a section only about an inch long, so I wasn't overdoing it, but I spent almost an hour trying to get the stuff off with a flashlight, a mirror, a pair of tweezers, and the most tremendous pain ever to occur on that part of my body. (Yep, it was on my labia, wouldn't you know it?)

So 3/4 of my labia are waxed. The other part, no chance in h-e-double hockeysticks.

If I had gone to a professional, it would have been much better. It was horribly painful, but it would have been better if that wax hadn't dried like it did. That's my own fault, but the pain has blinded me from ever trying it again.

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Here is a video I found on youtube! It is great!

YouTube - Bikini Wax

 

[Tina Marie]

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I did this the other night.

I bought a kit - equipped with everything from the wax' date=' to spreaders, to "numbing oil" to "soothing oil" to stencils.

It worked great. I, however, have much less of a pain tolerance in that area than other girls on our board. After the first couple of rips my hand started shaking and I started feeling sick at my stomach. But I couldn't stop, because I had already done all this work, and by golly, I was going to finish.

Yeah, right.

That was until some of the wax dried almost instantly. While I was pulling up from the bottom, the stuff on top turned into something similar to peanut butter brittle. I was doing a section only about an inch long, so I wasn't overdoing it, but I spent almost an hour trying to get the stuff off with a flashlight, a mirror, a pair of tweezers, and the most tremendous pain ever to occur on that part of my body. (Yep, it was on my labia, wouldn't you know it?)

So 3/4 of my labia are waxed. The other part, no chance in h-e-double hockeysticks.

If I had gone to a professional, it would have been much better. It was horribly painful, but it would have been better if that wax hadn't dried like it did. That's my own fault, but the pain has blinded me from ever trying it again.[/quote]

Oh my goodness haha! Yea, I got the at home kit and I can only handle doing it myself aorund the MAIN area... It is pretty painful and the closer you get to the labia the more painful it was for me.. I have never gotten it professionally done but I am sure it is much better than doing it myself...

something about getting ready to pull the wax strip and make yourself go through the pain is torture haha!

 

[Dee_Vine]

Thanks for the info ladies! I'm considering getting a brazilian done soon. I work at a spa so I don't really want my coworkers seeing my bits. haha Akward, I'll have to find another salon to go to.

Oh ya, do they make you go into weird positions?

 

[KatJ]

I'm gonna buy an at home wax kit this weekend.

Wish me luck, some of you ladies are scaring me!

 

[kel]

I think it's nearly impossible to do it via waxing by yourself. So I get it done at a salon and inbetween at home for maintenance - ok now you're really going to cringe - I use an epilator. I admit I have a very high tolerance for pain. Once I started from scratch with the epilator and the hair was not short enough - that hurts too much! If you get it done at a salon, then use the epilator when it starts growing back out but the hair is still short, it doesn't hurt so bad. (Just pull certain areas out flat and straight otherwise it will pinch!) It also takes a lot of squatting over a mirror. A little home maintenance saves a lot of money ($100 at the salon for the waxes and if you had to go every 4 weeks - geez - I spend enough on my hair already!) I just think trying to use sticky wax in such a hard to reach area by yourself is too hard. Also - I recommend NEVER shaving. I never had much hair and none around the butt crack, but I shaved it one time and now I have way more hair growing back and some in my butt crack that I never had before so I am totally pissed that I have to remove that now. Also, shaving tends to itch when it grows back, waxing doesn't. SO DON'T EVER SHAVE! Also, some people don't have a landing strip w/their brasilians - I prefer to take it all off. No sweaty, itchy hair when you're playing sports. It's great!

 

[SalJ]

No not really. Some get you to lie on your side when they do the back! Mine, I have half leg (tops) at the same time so she does the front on my leg and bikini then turns me over and does the back leg/bikini.

They do get you to held stretch the skin. This is one reason I could never do my own because it takes two hands to get a good stretch, which makes it stick (and therefore hurt) less!!

 

[veron]

I shave and started laser 8 months ago...love the results

 

[empericalbeauty]

i use a scissors. i just pinch the hair and snip. or hold it really close to the root and cut.

 

[aisha087]

i use this little machine called an epil-lade. it's like an electric shaver but it actually pulls out the hair from the roots, and is painless. i mean you do feel some pain, but the more you do it the less you feel it.

 

[mickey1962]

I think I might try an electric razor - I have a low pain threshold. thanks for all of the suggestions, though, in case I ever decide to try this.

 

[shaikhaf]

i go to a salon. over time u get used to the pain. i really admire those that can rip it off themselves!

 

[adrianavanessa]

Yep, she is right. If you can, go to a salon.

 

[PinkChanelGirl]

i have a low threshold for pain and shaving is so easy and painless except for the occasional ingrown hair

 

[MamaRocks]

i'm way to much of a chicken!

 

[MsCuppyCakes]

I have been getting brazilians professionally for about two years. The first time I went I was so nervous from what I read and my friends told me. I was literally shaking. When the first strip came off, my esthetician looked at me, I looked at her, she asked if that hurt I said, "What?" I didn't even feel it. I don't have a high tolerance for pain but it has never hurt. Now I wax, brazilian, myself. I don't have hair in the :bootyshake: area so it's really easy for me to do.

 

[pinksugar]

I usually wait for it to grow out. Sometimes I tweeze between times a bit..

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