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A First Time Waxing Experience
by Anonymous

All of my friends are telling me that waxing is the only way to go when it comes to removing the unsightly hair on my legs and bikini line. So I thought that I would be brave and give it a shot.

I must admit that I was really nervous the first time I walked through the doors of my skin care salon, but I was greeted by my esthetician, Jeanne, with a warm smile and a shake of her hand that had put me somewhat at ease. She was dressed professionally and her treatment room was clean and orderly. She told me to change out of my skirt and put on a robe that was given to me so I would feel more comfortable. Then she asked me to step up onto her table that resembled a massage bed; I got to lay back, and I was thinking “If my friends can do this, so can I - just breath and relax.”

Jeanne explained to me everything that she was doing. I think that she sensed how nervous I was, or maybe the dead give-a-way was the beads of sweat on my legs. Once again I heard “just take some deep breaths”, except this time it was Jeanne saying it.

She was telling me that the first step to her waxing my legs and bikini area was to cleanse the area, because hair holds a lot of bacteria, and we don’t want to infect the warm wax pot. After she sprayed the localized area with a disinfectant cleanser, she then sprinkled some powder all over my legs and bikini line, “just to ensure the area is completely dry so the wax will adhere to the skin” she said. Then came the scary part: she took a stick, which looked like a tongue depressor, and dipped it into the wax pot and applied it on my legs moving it downwards in a straight line. She completely covered my whole bottom leg with the warm wax, and she said that she was going to start to pull now. She wanted me to take some long deep breaths (to keep me calm, so I wont scream) and she pulled off the first strip. Immediately after, she applied pressure with her hand to the area, to help relieve the stinging sensation – it lasted for a few seconds, and then went away. She continued on and finished up both legs and moved onto the bikini area. The bikini line is a little more sensitive than the legs. But I was a trooper.

The results were heavenly, smooth, clean feeling skin. My skin was slightly red looking; she explained it would be that way for a few hours. Jeanne told me that I should use some kind of exfoliant, like a body scrub or a loopha sponge, in the shower quite frequently to keep from getting ingrown hair. And I shouldn’t take a hot bath or go into a Jacuzzi tub for at lease 24hrs after waxing. She said that the hair will start to grow back in a couple of weeks, then four weeks from now, I should come in and have it done again. If I keep up the process, the hair will eventually weaken, and slowly disappear. The hair that does grow will be softer.

I was so excited I had to sign up for the next appointment. I’ve been waxing my legs and bikini line for several years now and she was absolutely correct: my hair not only grew in softer and more sporadic, but it grew back to the natural blonde color that I had when I was twelve, before I shaved it and it grew in dark.

I know that my testimony of my first waxing experience isn’t the same for many of you, but if you’re considering it, keep in mind that it is a long-term commitment, and not everyone will have the same results I had. It is definitely worth trying. Give it a shot!