What about razors???

[Wifezilla]

I had an epilady. Threw that right in the trash! LOL

I have tried home wax kits and that was a total mess. My hair is rooted quite well and doesn't like to leave.



Has anyone ever tried that disposable razor sharpening thing they were advertising on tv? Did it work at all because it is looking like I am stuck buying razors

 

[hennypenny9]

Omg, I hate shaving! Not so much because of the cost of razors, but because of the time it takes. I always forget to shave my legs and then need to wear a skirt. Bleck! I've been looking into making sugar wax. So not much money to invest. Pain, yes. Money, no.

Edited because you don't need muslin strips for this method.

Edited yet again because the very first reply is about sugar wax. Today I can't read, apparently!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Forgive me, but this thread reminded me of the following joke/story....

READ WITH CAUTION! - and I would say women only, but what the heck...I'm sure there's some man out there somewhere who's thought about waxing.....

Waxing
This has to be one of the funniest and most God-awful scenarios I have ever heard of... Bless this woman!!!



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'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 hoo-haa 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.



Hoo-Haa? 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 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 hoo-haa 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 . . . . . .

 

[elijahboy]

I have done the Nads

When i pulled the cloth off i want to PUNCH someone

 

[Occamstazer]

Quail Antwerp...you're killin' me!

 

[miss_thenorth]

well, in my book Ecoholic, it says that if only a 1/4 of adult americans threw out a razor blade a week, we'd (you guys- I;m Canadian!)be tossing our over 3 billion every year.

It says, if you must use razors, at least use the reusable kind. The ones where you only buy the replacement blade, and keep the handle. I'm kinda fond of the schick Ultra ( I think that is the name of it.) It's a mens razor, has three blades ( I think-it;s winter ) if you must use a disposable razor, it says the kind manufactured by Preserve are 100% recycled plastic. Then they go on to talk about alternatives, while electric razors have lots of hamful stuff in them, they at least last for years. then there are techniques like sugaring, waxing, laser etc. the most earth friendly they suggest is sugaring.

I had an epilady once. I use razors now.

 

[ORChick]

For all of you cringing at the thought (or the memory ) of an Epilady, may I say that it actually gets easier with time? The first several times are not pleasant, but thereafter it isn't so bad at all. The nerve endings get used to it.

But I don't use mine anymore. Not because of discomfort, but because my other options are so much easier .

First, choose your ancestors properly. As a (mostly) Irish lassie my hair is fine and fair.

Second, choose your spouse well. Mine is European, and couldn't care less whether I shave my legs or armpits.

Because of my fine and fair hair, and my non-interested spouse, I don't actually need to shave at all, and only do it for my own comfort. That means, the pits get shaved every few weeks using a razor with disposable blades. My legs are spared for the Winter, as I seldom wear skirts, and in the Summer I have found that my DH's beard trimmer works wonderfully well. It leaves a bit of stubble (not absolutely smooth), but because of the color of my hair (or lack thereof) it isn't really noticeable; and it doesn't nick or scratch at all.

OK, I realize that this won't work for everybody, but it works just fine for me

 

[sylvie]

What about threading?

http://hairremoval.about.com/od/threading/f/facialthreading.htm

I started a threading thread that didn't go anywhere:
http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1902

The gist of that topic is that if you go to Youtube you can see how to do it. I haven't incorporated it into my lifestyle; Still using disposables.
Yeah, and the occasional singe from the wood stove. Ah, the fragrance of that

 

[hwillm1977]

I wax... I have a sister in law who is an esthetician, she does it for the cost of the wax for me.

The longer you use the methods that rip your hair out by the roots A) it doesn't hurt as bad, you sort of get used to it and B) you have to go less and less frequently.

I now have my legs waxed twice a year, and you can't really notice any hair growth between, the hairs get lighter and seems like there's fewer of them.... I've been doing it for 10 years though I like the laziness of not having to shave...

 

[Occamstazer]

Just tried threading. HOW did I not know about this before? It is the greatest thing ever!
My face is so smooth and my brows are perfect now