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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 06:11 PM Aug 2013

Found on FB--lauged so hard I cried...

a little long but worth it...

NEVER WAX YOUR HOO-HA

All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless hair removal - The Epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now....the wax. Read on..........
My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids.

I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: 'Maybe I should get the waxing kit from 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, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be?

I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!) So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. ('Cold wax,' yeah...right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull.

It works!

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-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of 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 my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip).

I inhale deeply and brace myself.... RRRRIIIPPP!!!!

I'm blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!..... OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!
Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip.

CRAP!

Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out.... I must stay conscious.... I must stay conscious. Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe.... OK, back to normal.

I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt 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... it's not! I touch....I am touching wax. 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 upon the toilet? So I put my foot down.

Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. 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!'

What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand in 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 than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub.....in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, does not melt cold wax.

So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter.

'So, my butt and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!'

There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, 'Are we talking cheeks or hoo-ha?' 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 should be the joke of someone else's night.

While we go through various solutions, I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better than 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'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.

My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my 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 and scared the dickens out of my friend. It's sooo painful, but I really don't care.

'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 recklessly shave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have amputated my own leg at this point.

Next week I'm going to try hair color......how bad can that turn out???

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Found on FB--lauged so hard I cried... (Original Post) one_voice Aug 2013 OP
Now that's some funny stuff... bluesbassman Aug 2013 #1
"Hairy pelt"... pipi_k Aug 2013 #2
I will never forget the coleslaw on the hoo-ha thread here. Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2013 #3
Funniest thing I've read in a long time! Suich Aug 2013 #4
Don't wax the hoo ha, and don't tuch the butt. NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #5
IMO: A hoo ha should only be waxed by a pro. In_The_Wind Aug 2013 #14
The person with the cold wax on the HOO-HA should have taken the man's way out PuffedMica Aug 2013 #6
It's also a great detangler. nt LWolf Aug 2013 #17
Next time: Veet LiberalEsto Aug 2013 #7
My first thought as well. Those two should marry. nolabear Aug 2013 #9
Next week I'm going to try hair color... Locut0s Aug 2013 #8
There's this special pipi_k Aug 2013 #12
Thanks. I needed that! nolabear Aug 2013 #10
HA! Aristus Aug 2013 #11
lol! Little Star Aug 2013 #13
"Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!" NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #15
The penquin walk... one_voice Aug 2013 #18
My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut! Bertha Venation Aug 2013 #16

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)
3. I will never forget the coleslaw on the hoo-ha thread here.
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 06:53 PM
Aug 2013

who knew that in some parts of the country that hoo-ha meant - in a hurry/on the run.

We thought she wanted to put coleslaw on her hoo-ha.

Hilarity ensued.

PuffedMica

(1,061 posts)
6. The person with the cold wax on the HOO-HA should have taken the man's way out
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 07:37 PM
Aug 2013


Thats right, WD40. You know, the stuff really works. It will dissolve crayons, chewing gum, lipstick and such.

A shot of WD40 on a shop rag with a quick rub down would have taken that wax clean off.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
12. There's this special
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 10:22 PM
Aug 2013

Hoo-ha hair color that's supposedly safe

Betty-something-or-other

Fluorescent pink, purple, etc


Fun stuff, apparently, having a hairy pelt that looks like a circus clown's wig

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
15. "Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!"
Fri Aug 2, 2013, 10:39 AM
Aug 2013
"...Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. 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!'..."


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