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Jenn Cirrincione
since 2000-07-02
Posts 2107Fl 
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Yeah so I've never waxed any hair off of my body- I've always heard how bad it hurts and I figured, being that I'm a wuss, I shouldn't try it. Okay, so yesterday I got stuck in the cosmetics dept for hours on end (I work at Walmart and they made me cashier there). And I started wandering aimlessly and looking at all the nifty stuff. So I see these cold "washable" wax kits, and I figured why not? Can't be that painful... So I take it home and I do the test patch and it gets a bit red and it hurts a little, but not for more than a second, and I figure I'm okay. So today (like 12 hrs after I tested it) I tried doing my legs. Yeah, well overall that didn't go well. Some hair came off- some stayed, it seemed like it took a year, and it hurt a lot worse today. So I stop and I say forget it- and just use the after treatment cream to stop the stinging. Well, low and behold do I look down and see these dark marks. I swear that stuff bruised me!! It like broke blood vessels or something, and it looks horrid. I was just wondering if anyone has had that bad of an experience with hair treatments, removal, dying etc... I want to know if I'm alone in my stupidity.  Why is it that we are at our most ingenius only when trying to destroy the things that keep us alive and thriving? |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Razors are goooooooood... I used an epilady once...my god...brrrrrrrrrrr...  K |
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Low Man's Lyric Member
since 2001-04-03
Posts 236In a dream |
Lol, I'm sorry but that was a funny story. I hope your ok Jenn. No signature for now, come back later. Oh wait, isn't this one? |
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Jenn Cirrincione
since 2000-07-02
Posts 2107Fl |
I'm finally healing!!! And I really like that Venus razor- it works really well- and no more bruising.  Why is it that we are at our most ingenius only when trying to destroy the things that keep us alive and thriving? |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
Jenn..yes i tried it once but it was a warm wax and I couldn't get the darn strip off my shin afterwards took forever..I was going to FLA and didnt want to have to shave often..I was black and blue what it did was almost bleed ....never again and I too use Venus..what a Godsend.. glad you are healing *s hugss M [This message has been edited by nakdthoughts (05-25-2002 04:31 PM).] |
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rosepetals25
since 2000-05-31
Posts 3076PA |
Aww Jenn, I'm sorry it went so bad for you lol. I never tried waxing my legs. I remember in beauty school the eyebrows hurt enough LOL I use Nair.. no nicks, no bleeding, no ripping the skin off your body. It works ok for me. As for epilady  I swear it had to be a man's idea lol. The thing just looks painful!Tara |
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NapalmsConstantlyConfused
since 2001-05-15
Posts 529 |
i promise it wasn't a man's idea. no really! hear me out: do you think any man would go along with having the hairs on his face yanked out by the roots? errrrr,no. but then, no thank you to that damn epilady thing in the first place, that thing doesn't look painful, it looks like some kind of medieval torture device. yeeeeeeowtch. HELL no. ever notice that all the shaving devices devised by men in the last say 30 years involve not touching the skin with sharp objects? look at electric razors. "shaves as close as a blade" which means it isn't. mkay then. and the blades we DO use are designed to lift hair away from the face, making it far more difficult to actually nick yourself. women's razors, however, (with the possible exception of Venus) never came out of the Dark Ages. why? dunno. the real question, though, is with all the "non-ouchie" technology that's gone into men's shaving products, why don't more women just use them? i mean really. have a Gillette Sensor Excel. "it's smooooooth." heh. but really, that thing just looks nasty to me too - it's been a constant source of amazement for me that women actually buy that thing voluntarily. icky. don't come crying to ME when it pulls all your skin off. -Dave |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
it is discussions like these that make me very happy to be a man. i mean, granted, we don't get to do all those cool things with our hair and makeup and all that... but the only time a razor has ever come close to my legs was when i got shin splints in 9th grade and had to tape up to run. and believe me, it wasn't an epilady. |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
I tried an epilady...ONCE...it is very painful. I tried NADS...ONCE...made my legs bleed. I tried the epil-stop roll-on for facial hair....ONCE....felt like fire and burned my lip til it blistered. I will stick to razors thank you. My husband has one of those Gillette things that work quite well. I think I'll go buy me a Venus since it seems to work well with no nicks and hubby won't have to change his blades so often LOL. There's the man I chose. There's my territory.....Shakira |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Okay I am coming in the back door with a question here. Why on earth would you hurt yourself like that - they make creams for all that now, takes less than 7 minutes max and whoosh gone, everywhere OMG, that sounds totally painful like ripping a bandaid off your skins, NOT ME, no way would I do that! No way! Hope you are healing Jenn, and I would write the company and complain big time. |
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SEA
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
I am waiting for them to make something to take it all off (in all the places you want it gone )and so it doesn't HURT! I got the heated wax stuff, then my microwave died, I got to give it a go just to try it, and it didn't hurt too bad....but that was only one strip...how did it bruise you???? That is odd. I have never heard of that.YIKES! That nair stuff is rotten and does not work....if there is a cream that works and actually gets the hair off, TELL ME THE NAME... I hate razors.... |
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Erin Member Elite
since 2000-06-15
Posts 2527~Chicago~ |
Waxing sucks! I stick to razors, but I dont like that Venus razor. I prefer guys razors. Nair sucks and it stinks!!! |
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Irie Senior Member
since 1999-12-01
Posts 1493Washington State |
Funny I came across this thread. Just last week I purchased a lady's electric wet/dry shaver and it's awesome. You can get them now for around $50.00 and it' well worth the money spent, and then some. ~Sheri |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
well i find that when i...oh nevermind |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
This is a thread that I'll just click "BACK" on |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
yowser...nothing like that ever happened to me...the only hair removal gone horribly wrong for me? was when they neglected to shave certain body hairs before my c-section for my second child. Yep, you guessed it, when they came to change the dressing for my stitches...well--I said, "just pull it quick" and then proceeded to laugh and cry at the same time!  smiling, but wincing at the memory... I learned my lesson--so I guess you can sign me, meticulously well-groomed |
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Spice Senior Member
since 2001-04-13
Posts 1266Resting in my cardboard box. |
I'm tellin ya Jenn.... Do what I do. Just always wear pants...  (OOOooo is that new smilies I see? Cute stuff...) Share Jesa, Stroke Jesa, Pet Jesa, Love Jesa. |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
You guys crack me up! Mysteria and Susan are my kind of girls...I gotta go now.  It's never too late to have a good childhood! Woohoo! |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Just sitting here thinking of a friend of my brother's. Now, Roach (nickname from an incident involving a hardhat, cockroach, ceiling and open mouth) got good and drunk and found his mom's epi. On a dare from my brother, he touched it his _very_ hairy leg and turned it on. From what I hear tell, it sounded like velcro. Then the pain kicked in. He had a 2" x 8" smooth strip on the back of his calf for the longest time.... Alicat of the odd anecdote |
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