Waxing - Occoquan,VA

With Catherine C. response, It sounded like she wrote what happened to me when I tried to do a bikini wax on my own.

Go to a salon , it might cost more, but worth it.

I don't really have any suggestions, but your question brought to mind a really funny email I received. Read on if you need a laugh! (After reading this, I decided to go to the salon for bikini waxing ;)

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My night began as any other normal weekday night. Come home; fix dinner; played with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours; "Maybe I should pull the wax out of the medicine cabinet?"

So I headed to the site of my demise; the bathroom. It was one of those cold wax kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand and then they get warm and you peel them apart, press it to your leg (or wherever else) and hair comes right off!

No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm no girly, girl, but I am mechanically inclined enough that I can figure it out. *YA THINK!!!*

So I pull one of the thin strips out. It's two strips facing each other, stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. Cold wax my rear end (Oh, how this phrase haunts me!). I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull.

OK... So it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this!!! Hair removal no longer eludes me!! I am She-Ra, fighter of all wayward body hair and smooth skin extraordinaire!!

With my next wax strip, I move "north". After checking on the kids, I sneak back 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 apply the wax strip across the right side of the bikini line, covering the right half of my vagina and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (Yes, it was a long strip). I inhale deeply and brace myself.... RRRRIIIIIIPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!

I'm Blind!!!!! Blinded from pain!!!!!!... OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half of the strip. S**T!! Another deep breath and RRIIPP... Everything is swirly and spotted. Do I hear crashing drums????? OK, back to normal. I want to see my trophy - A wax covered strip with my hairy pelt that has caused me so much pain, sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it!

Where is the hair?? WHERE IS THE WAX? Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair... The hair that should be on the strip. I touch. I am touching wax. S**T!!! I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair.

Then I make the next BIG mistake . . . . . . . Remember, my foot is still propped up on the toilet. I know I need to do something, so I put my foot down. DAMN!!! I hear the slamming of the cell door.

Vagina? Sealed shut! Butt?? Sealed shut!!! I penguin walk around the bathroom, trying to figure out what to do and think to myself, "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off."

Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right?? *WRONG!!!!*

I get in the tub - The water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit. Now, the only thing worse that having your nether businesses glued together is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub. In scalding hot water!! Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax. So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub!!! God bless the man what convinced me I should have a phone in the bathroom!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she's waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter, "So my butt and who-ha are stuck to the bottom of the tub!" There is a slight pause. She doesn't have a secret trick, but does try to hide the laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located on bottom, "Are we talking cheeks or hole or what?"

She's laughing out loud by now... I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box. YEAH!!! Right!!!!!! I would be the joke of someone else's night. While we go through various solutions, I resort to scraping the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water, and then dry shaving the sticky wax off!!!

By now, the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I slip into glazed donut land. My friend is still talking with me as my hand reaches towards the saving grace... The lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point. I rub some on and OH MY GOD!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids, scared the dickens out of my friend, but I really don't care!!

"IT WORKS!! IT WORKS!!" I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice, to my grief and despair... THE HAIR IS STILL THERE... ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I shaved it off. Heck, I'm numb at this point.

Next week I'm going to try hair color . . . . . .

Have it done professionally at LEAST once, at a "pay through the nose, we do this 8 hours a day, and spent 6 months in school learning how to do this right, and that was 5 years and 20,000 waxes ago", salon.

It's 2-3x more expensive than "we do this once a month and follow the directions on the box" nail salon.

Doing it wrong has several LOVELY side effects, including burns, ripped off skin, bruising, blood blisters, and unnecessary pain.

It's not really that hard, but you really, really, REALLY, want to watch a professional work and at least SEE how it's done, and feel how it feels when it's done right.

Instead of using wax maybe you could use Veet. Veet is a cream, it really doesn't smell bad either like some creams. It works in like 3-5 mins...its fabulous! And no sore areas. I use it and you can use it anywhere in the bikini area. Waxing is just to painful and you can really hurt yourself if you don't do it right! I would never advise anyone to wax or use cream on their period in the bikini area or anywhere near that area.

Good luck!

PS Veet always has coupons on their site! :)

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I would never recommend it to do it at home, unless you have house call. Trust me, getting it done professionally will be worth every penny. You might also consider a laser procedure.

The best advice I ever got about waxing was NOT to do it within 5 days of your period. I ignored this advice once and was blessed with blood blisters, the skin around there actually thins out a little and is more susceptible to trauma.

I do it at home all the time. My only suggestion to you is to get a washable wax because using the oil to get the extra wax off or oit of cracks and crevases is NOT fun. A warming wax kit that is washable with water works great and is easy clean up

I wax my bikini at home. It is very easy. Even the part underneath, if you know what I mean. BUT you can't use cold wax. It is not strong enough and because the hair grows in all different directions, it only works on the front part. You need to get a bee's wax that you melt on the stove or the microwave in boiling water. You can use muslin strips, I don't find that they stick to the fabric so I just wait a couple seconds and pull it off. You can't wait too long or it gets brittle. Zip is a wax that works well and there are lots of brands in a plastic jar that work well.