Note: this is part two of Adventures in Epilating. Check out part one here!
Hair needs to be 0.5mm, and it’s not recommended that you epilate long hair. So if you do have long hair, I suggest taking it all off with an old razor blade three days before you’d like to epilate! Not like, gross and rusting kind of old, but “time to change it” old. (Long hair + multiple blades = that hair ain’t never coming out.) They recommend trimming it, but… really? Like, with scissors? *snore*
Break up your epilating sessions! Because there’s basically no prep or clean-up, you can just do one body part, pack it up for the day, and do another the next day. Ten minutes a day for three days every few weeks can be a lot less boring than thirty minutes on one day!
Arms
Arm hair. Oh, arm hair, you bitch. (Whoops, sorry! Our lawyers are now telling us we’re supposed to be family-friendly around here. Or something.)
(Ahahahaha just kidding. We don’t have lawyers. Our legal advice comes from a bottle of vodka and a rusty butterknife.)
I totally just deterred this entire section. Let’s try that again.
Arms
Like most post-pubescent people I know… I have arm hair. And I hate it. For many, this isn’t a problem — but because I’m very fair with dark hair, it bugs the crap out of me. The problem with waxing it off is that it’s so obvious when you have totally hair-free arms!
So, try this: epilate quickly, without trimming your hair. Don’t go over sections multiple times. The result? Thinned out hair, without obvous bald patches or regrowth patches! Then just touch it up every two or three weeks — it takes less than five minutes and you’re set ;)
Two words: baby powder. Douse the crap out of sensitive areas with baby powder to give amazing slip — it creates huge clouds of powder, sure, but so what? It makes epilating so freakin’ easy.
(Seriously, don’t even think about doing your underarms without baby powder.)
Oh, also — have a facial exfoliator that’s too harsh? Try it on your body ;)
Want more? Well, that’s good, because there is more: our Emagine review, and a video on epilating!
That’s it — I’m out of b.s. to spew my wealth of knowledge has run dry. Have a lovely Tuesdsay, my dears!
