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eri86
I can't afford to get waxed, and I'm even going to consider waxing myself. That would be a disaster waiting to happen.
I have shaved before, with no incident, and I uses a shave gel designed specifically for shaving down there so the
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I can't afford to get waxed, and I'm even going to consider waxing myself. That would be a disaster waiting to happen.
I have shaved before, with no incident, and I uses a shave gel designed specifically for shaving down there so the skin doesn't get irritated.
But the smooth feeling never lasts more than a day. Within 24 hours I can already feel the hair growing back, and it itches. And after the itchy comes the prickly feeling for a few days.
How can I make that smooth feeling last after shaving, without having to shave every other day? Because that does cause irritation.
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I waxed myself and tried sugar waxing -- nothing but bad came of it for me. Not saying that will be the same for you, but I experienced extreme, pretty unbelievable bruising. The looks of my crotch -- omg. You'd think I was beaten! It happened most times I ever used wax or the sugar stuff. I finally gave up and bought an epilator -- been using that sucker over a year with amazing results ever since! I love it. I spent about $43 on it at CVS and it's really been the best solution for me.
The smoothness being short-lived. Same problem I had. Everyone else said they'd only have to sugar or wax once a week or less! Me? every other day. And there was always, always still hair left that wouldn't be jerked out for me. I don't know how people do it. But epilating, I only do every 3 days. By the second day, I might have a couple pricklies from hairs that weren't fully out of the skin when I epilated last, but I'm totally smooth for at least one-two days. If I didn't mind several pricklies, I could epilate just once a week. But I do care. They bug me.
Another thing I love about epilating -- no itching. It doesn't get hard and stubbly like it does with shaving, either. The only downside is the amount of ingrown hairs that come from hair removal (if you remove the full hair/follice with it.) Waxing caused me more ingrowns than epilating, but the thing about epilating is that I can see the hairs right under the skin, but they hardly ever get bad and painful like they did with waxing.
Oh, and no razor burn!
I tried Veet and other similar ones once. Veet took away about 10% of the hairs on my crotch, but never all of them, or even half of them. Then, one day, it left me with a severely burned crotch. It was awful! My vagina is still scarred, literally. It was oozing clear stuff and blood & I'd only left it on for 3 1/2 minutes. I had used it for 5 minutes in the past, but for some reason, it ate right through my skin that last time. I remember the pain. I was horrified when the burning started & I jumped in the tub and turned on the shower head, which is removeable & spraying my crotch off, to try and remove the veet caused it to like activate even more or something & I could literally feel my skin being burned away. The next morning, I woke up with my shorts stuck to the oozing open wound. I used to be one of those people who would just do anything to get rid of hair, but I am telling you -- Veet is bad stuff! Those chemicals are so smelly that they'd give me a migraine. Why I still put it downstairs is beyond me. But seriously, I would even go so far as to say don't try it unless you are desperate. And even then, I would not go there again.
Okay. I will shut up.
