This blog posted by Michelle is a light hearted look inside the world of waxing at home.   The benefits of waxing out weight the cons by far when you leave the tricky part up to the professionals…Happy Waxing!

If you’ve ever attempted waxing anything, you’ll understand this one! (swiped off menopausal bi-polar witch babbling – who swiped it from someone else – in its entirety, as her posts don’t have permalinks)

HAIR REMOVAL MADE EASY

All methods have tricked me with their promises of easy, painless removal – the Epilady, the standard razor, the scissors, the Nair, the EpilStop, and now… The Wax.

My night began as any other normal weekday night. I came home from work, fixed dinner for my son and we played for a while. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next couple hours: maybe I should use that wax in my medicine cabinet. I set up my boy with a video and headed to the site of my demise, um, I mean bathroom.

It was one of those cold wax kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the clear strips in your hand, peel them apart, press it on your leg (or wherever) and ignore the frantically rising crescendo of string instruments in the background. No muss, no fuss. How hard can this be? I mean, I’m not the girly-est of girls but I’m mechanically inclined so maybe I can figure out how this works. You’d think.

So I pull one of the thin strips out. It’s two strips facing each other, stuck together. I’m supposed to rub it in my hand to warm and soften the wax (I’m guessing). I go one better: I pull out the hair dryer! And heat the SOB to ten thousand degrees. Cold wax, my ass. (Oh, how that phrase will come back to haunt me.)

I lay the strip across my thigh. I hold the skin around it and pull. OK, so it wasn’t the best feeling in the world, but it wasn’t bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am Sheera, fighter of all wayward body hair and smooth skin extraordinaire!

With my next wax strip, I move north. After checking on the boy and verifying that he was, in fact, becoming one with Bear and learning all about smells, I sneak into the bathroom for The Ultimate Hair Fighting Championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I then apply the wax strip across the right side on my bikini line, covering the right half of my vagina and stretching up into the inside of the right ass cheek. (Yeah, it was a long strip.)

I inhale deeply. I brace myself.

RRRIIIIPPP!!!!

I’m blind! Blind from the pain!… Vision returning. Oh crap. I’ve managed to pull off half an inch of the strip. Another deep breath. And… RRRIIIPP! Everything is swirly and tie-dyed? Do I hear crashing drums? OK, coming back to normal again. I want to see my trophy – my wax covered pelt that caused me so much agony. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold the wax strip like an Olympic gold medallist. But why is there no hair on it? Why is the wax mostly gone? Where could the wax go, if not on the strip?

Slowly, I eased my head down, my foot still perched on the toilet. I see hair – the hair that should be on the strip. I touch. I feel. I am touching wax. I look to the ceiling and silently shout “nooooooo!!” And realize I have just begun living my own personal version of “The Tar Baby.”

I peel my fingers off the softest, most sensitive part of my body that is now covered in cold wax and matted hair, and make the next big mistake – up until this point, you’ll remember, I’ve had my foot on the toilet. I know I need to move, to do something. So I put my foot down on the floor. And then I hear the slamming of the cell door. Vagina? Sealed shut. Ass? Sealed shut.

A little voice in my head says, “I hope you don’t have to shit anytime soon. Your head just might pop off.” I penguin walk around the bathroom trying desperately to figure out what I should do next. Hot water! Hot water melts wax! I’ll run the hottest water I can stand and get in – the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it a way, right? Wrong!

I get in the tub – the water is slightly hotter than is used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment. And I sit. Now the only thing worse than having your goodies glued together is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of a tub. In scalding hot water. Which, by the way, does not melt the cold wax. So now I’m stuck to the tub.

I call my friend, C, because she once dropped out of beauty school so surely she has some secret knowledge or trick to get wax off skin. It’s never good to start a conversation with “So my ass and vagina are stuck to the tub.”

She doesn’t have a trick. She does her best to suppress laughter. She wants to know exactly where the wax is on the ass. “Are we talking cheek or hole, here?” she asks. She isn’t even trying to hide the giggles now. I give her the run-down of the entire night. She tells me to call the number on the side of the box, but to have a good cover story for where the wax actually is. “You know that if we were working the help line at XX Wax Co. and somebody called with their entire crack sealed shut, we’d just put them on hold then record the conversation for everyone we know. You’re going to end up on a radio show or the internet if you tell them the truth.

While we go through various solutions, I have resorted to scraping the wax off with a razor. Boy, nothing feels better to the girly goodies than covering them in wax, sticking them to a tub in super hot water and THEN dry shaving the sticky wax off!

In the middle of the conversation (which has inexplicably turned to other subjects!) I find the little, beautiful saving grace that is the lotion provided with wax to remove the excess. I rub some in and start screaming, “It’s working! It’s working!” I get hearty congratulations from C and we hang up.

I successfully remove all the wax and notice, to my dismay, that the hair is still there. So I shaved the damned stuff off. Hell, I was numb by that point anyway. And then I put the box of wax back in my medicine cabinet. Never know when a moustache might start to come in.

Kate Moss Shares Her Beauty Secrets

Jan 05 – 8:40AM by BellaSugar Australia

If there’s one supermodel that proves she has staying power, it’s Kate Moss. Sure, Cindy and Naomi and Heidi have still got it, but Miss Moss is the one with the perfumes, the fashion line, the big bookings and mini-mes running all over town. Even after that cocaine scandal, Kate continues to reign and Fab and I tirelessly pore over snaps of her attempting to see how she does it. Today we got a little bit closer as the 35-year-old revealed her beauty secrets in an interview with The Times:

Iced water with cucumber; and waxing, definitely — it’s better than shaving. Moisturise, sleep — and happiness: that’s a beauty secret. I know I look different when I’m happy. I don’t really stick to one thing.

Got it. It’s all about the water, moisturising, waxing and happiness. Which I do/am anyway so all I need is a little cucumber and then a rock star shall knock at my door. Here’s hoping (though not for Pete Doherty).

Source: Getty

‘20/20′ Looks at the Top 10 Health Myths

One of the most popular myths…Waxing Is Better Than Shaving

Shaving’s been around for thousands of years, and waxing dates back to the ancient Egyptians. Which is the best method for hair removal?

“When you wax the hair, you’re pulling it from under the surface of the skin. So it can take several weeks, three to four weeks, before you actually see the hairs resurface,” said dermatologist Pat Wexler.

If you shave, Wexler said, you’ll see new hair in a couple of days and the hair will grow back coarser. “Because when you shave the hair you’re cutting the edge of the hair blunt, so when it grows in you always feel the sharpness,” said Wexler.

With waxing, Wexler said the hair will grow back finer. “You create scarring in that hair follicle from the constant pulling,” said Wexler. “And the scarring will diminish the number of hairs that grow back.”

Beehive Waxing Salon clients have lived by this gospel since conception of of the Beehive over 4 years ago.  We realize that  waxing might not be for everyone  but being educated on the pros and cons of both waxing and shaving helps you choose what is best for you!

Click here to read the entire article : http://abcnews.go.com/Health/2020/story?id=512095&page=2 

Scientist answer beauty questions on waxing verses shaving: http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/12/04/waxing-versus-shaving-which-lasts-longer/