Wax Lyrical

As most of you will now know, Husband and I split up about six months ago and life has been somewhat interesting ever since.  I have taken the opportunity to undertake the cliche of reinventing myself in some ways - personal trainer, Mr Nice, going out (when child care permits), hamster, house rabbit..... etc


There was another area I was keen to explore, am not absolute on why I had not explored this when Toss Pot was still around.  I guess it is one of those things that never really crosses your mind when you are comfortable...  Also, it could be that with my PT and weight loss (2.5 stone to date), I am more image aware - not in a Barbie sort of sense but more in a "I am not a dowdy fat cow" sort of sense.


So what are we talking about???  The bikini line...


Previously I had always had what I believe is termed the "basic" , what can I say, for some reason, the basic was just not good enough anymore.


Less is more and all that....


So have been a few times now for said beauty treatment - I cannot fathom why this comes under the category of beauty treatment because it certainly does not feel beautiful at the time.....


Any boys reading this, you are in for an eye opener.... you have no idea and I mean NO IDEA what us women go through.....


Firstly, it is advisable to wear very small or no pants when you are going for a wax.  Now, I cannot seem to get past the concept of wearing no pants so end up in very small uncomfortable pants (anything smaller than boxer shorts are small uncomfortable pants for me).  It is of course pointless, small pants or not you end up holding them out of the way of wax anyway...


In some ways it is almost like going for a smear test, in that you have to lie there in your small uncomfortable pants, legs akimbo so that the relevant areas can be accessed - it is not dignified it has to be said.


Wax is put on, wax sets, wax is pulled off...with any hair....it smarts a bit..... some bits more than others...


Muffin does my waxing, Muffin and I get on well and chat a lot when waxing (she does other beauty treatments for me also).  However, close call at last waxing session.  It is probably advisable not to chat to your beautician as she may forget what she is doing and in her excitement you may lose almost all of it....which is not what you wanted....I should say at this point Muffin is ace and marvelous beautician x


One particularly moment at the last session did see me yelp a bit and in a reflex action I pulled one leg up and over next to the other leg.  Which is a problem, when you have a load of wax on which you are waiting to set, because then you get stuck together......


Trying to separate yourself (with the aid of Muffin) when you have become stuck together is not easy and hurts, probably more than the proper waxing itself. Once again dignity is lost.


Similar issues occur when you inadvertently stick your small uncomfortable pants to your nethers and have to try and rip them off....


Straight from waxing went to Rowan's for birthday soiree, arrived at Rowan's and announced that I needed to change my pants (still sporting small uncomfortable pants at this stage)....... possibly not what she was expecting....