Friday, Nov 25, 2005 at 18:58
All hair removal methods have tricked us with their promises of easy,
painless removal. The epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now.... The
Wax!!
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 is 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 bleep 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
swirling 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 WAD? 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.
bleep ? 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 than 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 who 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 should 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 and
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 ge! t a hearty congratulations 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 . . . . . . .
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