{"id":17826,"date":"2017-06-12T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingy.com\/magazine\/?p=17826\/"},"modified":"2019-04-05T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T09:28:20","slug":"waxing-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingy.com\/magazine\/waxing-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazingy Guides: How To Survive A Bikini Wax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Female body hair has always been and will probably always be a topic of heated discussion. Be it under the arms, on the legs or between them\u2014the debate continues, to keep, or not to keep the hair, and is it all or nothing? If it has to go, then how? AH!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A short history many of you will recognise…<\/h2>\n

Oh how I remember blushing like a tomato when I as a teenager and received a ladyshave (a special female razor) for my birthday. Thanks mom & dad, for the hint…
\nAfter the ladyshave broke, I moved on to real razors and stuck with those for a long long time, occasionally causing a bloodbath because of a wrong movement in the shower. \u00a0Of course, I tried the microwave do-it-yourself wax but, boy, did that turn out to be one giant sticky painful mess\u2026and it didn\u2019t even work: half the hairs on my legs were still there smiling back at me. \u00a0I also tried my friends epilator machine, but oooh how painful! And then the ingrown hairs!<\/p>\n

So, then something came up that promised to end the battle with body hair for forever. IPL: Intense Pulsed Light Therapy. After having wasted hundreds of euros, lots of time and suffering (I once even suffered some burn symptoms- don\u2019t believe what they say- IPL ain\u2019t for pussies, pun intended) without any result, I decided to give up.<\/p>\n

I had just read \u201cHow to be a Woman\u201d by contemporary feminist Caitlin Moran in which she describes the joy of having a bush and how today\u2019s fashion, porn and beauty industry is making you feel bad about having pubic hair, basically in order to make money.<\/p>\n

After the big IPL fail, I had had enough of it, and Caitlin was on my side. But after two happily hairy years, I started dreading the upcoming summer holidays and my bikini line. Last year was a bit of a disaster with last minute shaves and stubs, so this time, I decided I was going to do it differently. I first tried buying a boy-short style bikini bottoms. I found a rather cute one that looked sexy but, damn it, even in this big hotpants-style bikini, the hairs were peeping out between from my legs. So, a day before leaving for my holidays, in a \u201csomething\u2019s gotta give\u201d mood, I ran into a professional wax salon.<\/p>\n

So, the bikini wax…<\/h2>\n

It hurts, but not as bad as you might expect and it has instant effect with a big wow factor: soft & silky is what you\u2019ll get if done correctly. It\u2019s not for free either, but it lasts long and I personally only do it during the bikini season. Of course it is pretty embarrassing to spread your legs for a complete stranger who is going to get very intimate with you within 2 minutes after meeting. But that’s the easiest part, I like to think of it \u00a0as a visit to the gynecologist, they see vaginas upclose every day and are probably not impressed by any form or colour you might have between your legs. At least, that was the case with the girl who helped me. She just seemed endlessly bored. So, after extensive research on the matter, I came up with some tips on to how to make your bikini wax a success. Tested & approved by me, personally.<\/p>\n

How to survive a Bikini wax:<\/h2>\n

Prepare:<\/h4>\n