Waxing

[trb2216]

i've been waxed once, and i liked it too. a brazilian, the only part that hurt was the folds between my cock and sack, which the ladie told me that was the same as the labia for a female. all together a great time.

 

[FurryFury]

If someone can, I'd love to know it, too. I've yet to try one at-home-wax-thing that really works.

I sure can't. I've tried at least two. One simply didn't work. The other left me significantly bruised along the bikini line. It was colorful, then ugly before returning to normal.

Fury

 

[FurryFury]

I just moved from Galveston, TX to Northern Virginia and I can say from experience that where you live makes a huge impact on how much you pay for things - especially for services. Most salon items (cuts, perms, waxes, massages, etc.) in Virginia cost at least twice what they did in Galveston. Another example is the full detailing of a car (down to Q-Tipping the crevices in the doors) for a whopping $25 - in Galveston. That level of service costs upwards of $80 in Northern Virginia.

Now if I could just earn what I do here and spend what I did there.....

I've spent some time in Galveston and enjoyed it. I also like the high speed limits!

Yes, where you live and also what part of the city you get services done can make a huge cost difference.

Fury

 

[neonflux]

i love being waxed; my salon charges $45 for a full brazilian (but $95 for a haircult). I would love to find a home product that worked really well, have yet to do so.

comment about getting waxed in a salon (a new personal crusade of mine): most salons "double dip" with the applicator, meaning that they use the same one again and again when working on an individual. it was the aestheticist who used to do my waxings who informed me that this can be unsanitary - because the wax is kept at a temperature close to that of the human body, it can provide a safe place for all sorts of skin-existing bugs to reside, including HSV, HPV and a harry potter-sounding bacteria called molluscum contagiousum...

so if your waxer double dipped with the person preceeding you, you stand a chance of getting any bacteria/virus her previous client had since she will continue to use the same container of wax until it is used up... unfortunately, even at the best salons, they allow the practice, so would recommend checking with yours to find out what their practice is.

 

[cati]

Ummm I just remembered something, what I had done was called "sugaring".
I think its basically the same thing as a wax tho'.

Shank you are too funny... a sock....chuckling, only you could do that!

 

[Etoile]

I just moved from Galveston, TX to Northern Virginia and I can say from experience that where you live makes a huge impact on how much you pay for things - especially for services. Most salon items (cuts, perms, waxes, massages, etc.) in Virginia cost at least twice what they did in Galveston. Another example is the full detailing of a car (down to Q-Tipping the crevices in the doors) for a whopping $25 - in Galveston. That level of service costs upwards of $80 in Northern Virginia.

Now if I could just earn what I do here and spend what I did there.....

Welcome to one of the nation's richest metro areas, and one of the most expensive metro areas! Fairfax County, where I live and work, is among the richest counties in the country. Neighboring Loudoun County, formerly very rural, is a quick up-and-comer and prices are going sky-high there. As you've found, individual services are very expensive...for me to get a total body wax is usually about $100 including tip - and that's at the lower end salons! You can easily pay much more at a classier place. (I don't know anything about car detailing, though!)

Oh, and welcome to the country's third worst commute, too - over an hour for most people!

 

[serijules]

Just a thought - and I've done zero research so take this as you will - but salons/spas have to get their equipment and supplies from somewhere. Perhaps someplace like Sally Beauty Supply. (They are a wholesaler and I know of several free-lance hairdressers that get their supplies there.) It would probably require some initial investment, but at $70 a session in a salon it would pay for itself quickly.

Just a thought.

I don't live in an area where we have stores like that, and the ones in the next city only sell to salons.

besides, I don't even KNOW what the professionals use, thus why I'm asking

 

[cati]

Yes...why are things so expensive in Virginia and West Virginia?
Other public services are equally expensive, I feel badly for them.

 

[neonflux]

As you've found, individual services are very expensive...for me to get a total body wax is usually about $100 including tip - and that's at the lower end salons! You can easily pay much more at a classier place. (I don't know anything about car detailing, though!)

Oh, and welcome to the country's third worst commute, too - over an hour for most people!

Expensive here, too - full body is $100 without tip, one of the reasons I am trying now to "do it myself" since I am determined to get out of debt within the next 3 - 4 years. I have no trouble doing leg, face, underarm wax myself, but there is something about having to stretch all of that very pliable labia skin at the same time I'm trying to smooth down those wazing strips in a very uncomfortable position (necessary to see what I'm doing) that made me just give up on the whole thing. I am interested in the powder and wondering how that works. Don't think I've seen it at any of the Walgreens in my area.

BTW, my heart goes out to you over your commute. Being able to walk to work is one of the things I could never give up...

~ Neon

 

[TheRiverWild]

Welcome to one of the nation's richest metro areas, and one of the most expensive metro areas! Fairfax County, where I live and work, is among the richest counties in the country. Neighboring Loudoun County, formerly very rural, is a quick up-and-comer and prices are going sky-high there. As you've found, individual services are very expensive...for me to get a total body wax is usually about $100 including tip - and that's at the lower end salons! You can easily pay much more at a classier place. (I don't know anything about car detailing, though!)

Oh, and welcome to the country's third worst commute, too - over an hour for most people!

I moved from Leesburg to Galveston in the first place in no small part because it took more than an hour each way to go the 20 miles to work. BLECH!! The move back was for the benefit of my soon-to-be-ex-husband. Now I can't leave for a variety of reasons. The bastard damages my life yet again. (I'm sorry, was that out loud?)

I liked the whopping 4-mile commute I had in Galveston, but it was too freaking HOT for my tastes. (And yet, that's where Houstonians go to escape the heat of the city. YIKES!)

Thanks for the welcome, Etoile! That was really sweet!

 

[EroticSexKitten]

sounds fun

 

[Etoile]

BTW, my heart goes out to you over your commute. Being able to walk to work is one of the things I could never give up...

I am pretty lucky that my commute is only an hour! When I worked downtown and took public transit the whole way, it was 90 minutes. It's often an hour to go about 20 miles on any of the major interstates if you're going with the rest of traffic. Fortunately I have a reverse commute, but it's still an hour door to door. I love NPR!

 

[Etoile]

I moved from Leesburg to Galveston in the first place in no small part because it took more than an hour each way to go the 20 miles to work. BLECH!! The move back was for the benefit of my soon-to-be-ex-husband. Now I can't leave for a variety of reasons. The bastard damages my life yet again. (I'm sorry, was that out loud?)

I liked the whopping 4-mile commute I had in Galveston, but it was too freaking HOT for my tastes. (And yet, that's where Houstonians go to escape the heat of the city. YIKES!)

Thanks for the welcome, Etoile! That was really sweet!

I've heard it's a dry heat in the south...I have no idea what that feels like! I've been in the DC area my whole life, to me heat and humidity are like conjoined twins...they simply ALWAYS go together!

 

[TheRiverWild]

I've heard it's a dry heat in the south...I have no idea what that feels like! I've been in the DC area my whole life, to me heat and humidity are like conjoined twins...they simply ALWAYS go together!

A dry heat? A DRY heat? HAHAHAHAhahahahha.....<snort>

West Texas is dry and parts are more or less desert. East Texas, on the other hand, is sometimes so humid it's hard to breathe. When I left Virginia I thought I was moving away from the humidity along with the commute. OH! How wrong I was.

Galveston (an island off the coast near Houston for those who don't know) has the advantage of having an ocean breeze most of the time. And I got to wear shorts and a t-shirt on the occasional day in January - so there are advantages. Lots of 'snow birds' in the Galveston area.

But that just goes to show you - every place has the good and the bad. Rather like most of life and (to inelegantly return to the original topic) also like the relative merits of waxing, powdering and shaving.

(Wow...typing so obliquely made my fingers hurt.)

 

[neonflux]

I liked the whopping 4-mile commute I had in Galveston, but it was too freaking HOT for my tastes. (And yet, that's where Houstonians go to escape the heat of the city. YIKES!)

Hey from a former Texas gal - my hat is off to anyone who can survive that heat. I spent one summer with my Great Aunt and Uncle in College Station (near Galveston) and that was THE deciding factor in my not going to Tulane University, even though I was accepted and it was a "league" theatre school!

 

[FurryFury]

I've heard it's a dry heat in the south...I have no idea what that feels like! I've been in the DC area my whole life, to me heat and humidity are like conjoined twins...they simply ALWAYS go together!

I'm in the south. I've lived and traveled all over it. It's not dry heat anywhere I've been except in a sauna!

Fury

 

[coy_one]

I moved from Leesburg to Galveston in the first place in no small part because it took more than an hour each way to go the 20 miles to work. BLECH!! The move back was for the benefit of my soon-to-be-ex-husband. Now I can't leave for a variety of reasons. The bastard damages my life yet again. (I'm sorry, was that out loud?)

I liked the whopping 4-mile commute I had in Galveston, but it was too freaking HOT for my tastes. (And yet, that's where Houstonians go to escape the heat of the city. YIKES!)

Thanks for the welcome, Etoile! That was really sweet!

Hey, I'm going through a divorce - I know mostly Maryland Law - and work at an attorney's firm - but if I can be of assistance, from one sister to another, I'm always here for you.


Back to our regularly scheduled topic.... Master uses Cold wax. Can't say that I prefer it - but it does the job, makes him happy, etc. Frankly, I must say I'm ape over my new tweezerman tweezers. They mostly pluck the hairs from my eyebrows, but shit, if they did my nether-regions, I'd be cool with it. LOL

 

[TheRiverWild]

Hey, I'm going through a divorce - I know mostly Maryland Law - and work at an attorney's firm - but if I can be of assistance, from one sister to another, I'm always here for you.

I appreciate the offer. You are too kind!

Back to our regularly scheduled topic.... Master uses Cold wax. Can't say that I prefer it - but it does the job, makes him happy, etc. Frankly, I must say I'm ape over my new tweezerman tweezers. They mostly pluck the hairs from my eyebrows, but shit, if they did my nether-regions, I'd be cool with it. LOL

Can you tell me more about Cold Wax? I've never heard such a thing.