Why is our waxing almost pain-free?

Almost pain-free waxing

Search any media for a waxing demonstration, and one is horrified at the graphic examples of ripping, tearing, pulling, bleeding, and screaming video clips of people being waxed. No wonder more than a few first time clients are petrified of being waxed and have bleak faces when entering the studio.

Pain-free waxing boils down to four things:

1.Last hair removal method

2.Length of hair

3.Wax formula and technique used in studio

4.Experience of therapist doing the wax

Last hair removal method before your first wax:

Shaving cuts hair off at the skin surface for a smooth feeling. However, it is a very short lived silkiness as most clients report that shaving is necessary every day. Regular shaving causes hair to thicken and to re-appear hard and black. The first wax after a shave can be done 2 weeks after the last shave. 

Because the hair is course the first wax will feel more uncomfortable than what it will with future waxes.  The wax will pull roots and hair follicles out and the results are well worth the first wax as hair takes a while to grow back, after a first wax hair will return in about 2 weeks time after a brazilian wax for example.

To prepare best for your first wax, if you are a shaving client, rather remove the hair with a hair removal cream and wait 2 weeks, the hair from a removal cream tends to grow out softer than with a shave.

Length of hair:

The longer the hair are, the more painful your waxing experience. We recommend waxing every 3-4 weeks as hair just returned after the last wax and are still short and actively growing.  Long hair causes unnecessary pulling which causes pain.  If a hair is short the wax can just grip onto the hair and pull only the hair and root.

Wax and technique used in studio:

The wax used at Fast and Furious Waxing Specialists is hand mixed by the owner to ensure a perfect working consistency, which dries very quickly and doesn’t cause unnecessary heat on the skin.  A thin barrier of powder is used on the skin before wax is applied to ensure that wax does not cling to skin and that no skin is pulled in the process. The wax encapsulates every hair and pulls it directly from the skin in one clean motion.  No hair can be broken off with this wax which leaves clients hair free for a long period of time.

Experience of the therapist doing the wax:

Even with the best wax formula and a perfectly prepared skin one will experience a painful wax if the therapist performing the treatment is not experienced.  Every client is an individual and should be treated as such, and at Fast and Furious Waxing Specialists, we pride ourselves in the fact that we have years and years of experience behind us.

Real men wax sacks ! From Scoop newspaper, Dec 2011

If you put three hairy comedians in a room with a pot of sticky wax and a willing woman, you are gong to hear some interesting things.
“I actually like pain. Smack me,” says masochist Dave Levinsohn, through bouts of maniacal laughter.
Heavy breathing and words that are just not right to hear on Sundays are bandied about with relentless disregard.
As Adele Mans, owner of Fast and Furious Waxing Specialists, smears some more wax over Dave’s bare bum, he asks “do you know how many people have touched me where you’re touching now? Besides me, Adele, you’re the second. There was a hooker in Hillbrow in the 80s.”
Less filled with laughter and more focused on the oriental rug getting torn off his back is Vittorio Leonardi. The big man, who is still sporting a killer tache from Movember, shuts his eyes in desperation, as Adele tears, with clinical precision, more hair from his reluctant body.
“Do people actually pay for this? I mean they usually do this at Guantánamo Bay to get confessions out of professional terrorists,” he asks.
Smear. Rip. “That is sore.” In what was the longest manscapade of the three, Vittorio kept the banter coming. Adele asks if he wants the remaining fine hairs removed, to which he says; “But if they’re fine, why are we bothering with them?”
Next up is Daniel Friedman who openly admits; “I’m not one of the most hardcore people you’ve ever met.” Not liking pain he asks Adele to warn him before she rips roots right out of his man bits. Well not quite, just above his man bits.
No warning. Tearing noises that remind you of having your tooth pulled out. Curled-up lips and powerfully suppressed gasps of agony as Daniel decides: “I’ve always been a bit of a closet masochist.”
After finding his “happy place” filled with chocolate rivers and marshmallow mountains he resolves that “beauty is pain”.
Adele, who has been in the business for over 15 years, reminds the men that giving birth is a hell of a lot worse.

But then again women can take a lot more pain than the men. They even choose to wax habitually.

Recommend a friend loyalty cash back program

• Receive a R50 voucher for every new client that you introduce to our business.
• All referred friends must be a new client to enable you to qualify for the R50 referral voucher for any wax treatment.
• You must be an existing client of Fast and Furious Waxing Specialists when you refer a friend, that means you already had at least one treatment with us.
• Pick up a Cash Back Voucher(s) from the salon. Give it to your friend and they must return it at their first treatment. It will be logged at the salon and you will receive R50 off your next wax.
• There is no limit to the amount of vouchers that can be earned by referring friends.
• The Referred client is then entitled to participate in the Refer a Friend Cash Back promotion.

• SO... refer away and get paid!!!

From: Tjoklits vir die siel

Uittreksel van “Tjoklits vir die siel” deur Susan Coetzer

“Christel snork met haar Mercedes tot voor die glasdeur van haar haarkapper, @hair.com langs Pappuzzis in Linden en klim haastig uit. Mickelle wag haar met n sigaret op die stoepie in. 

“Jy’s laat mevrou,” se hy en druk sy halfgerookte sigaret dood.  “Gaan ons nie vandag die sonbril afhaal nie?” vra Mickelle met n geligte wenkbrou. 

“Moet ons regtig?” vra sy onwillig. 

“Nee,” se hy sonder n glimlag.  “In die salon wys ons oe vir mekaar.”  Christel sug, haal haar Ray-Ban donkerbril onwillig af en plak dit voor haar neer. 

“Hmm,” se Mickelle. “Ek sien hoekom jy die donkerbril wil ophou.  Die bags onder jou oe is groter as jou Diesel handbag.” 

“Dankie,” se Christel ysig.  Ek wil sien hoe lyk jy die dag as jy van jou partner skei.  En dan moet ek nog die koerante ook face en smile asof als fine is…” 

“Ons kan jou nie so laat afneem nie,” se Mickelle en skud sy kop asof hy na n grusame ongeluks toneel kyk. 

“ADELE! EMERGENCY!”  gil hy by sy sydeur uit.  “Kan jy kom make up doen?  Newly divorced celeb.  Oe is dik gehuil.  Sy’t oor n uur n groot do.  The press is going to be there.”  Adele verskyn binne oomblikke in die haarsalon.  Sy’s fyn en mooi met n sagte rustige stem wat jou aan die klank van die see herinner.  Sy kyk simpatiek na Christel se oe. 

“Hmm,” se sy.  “Ek sal eers teesakkies moet opsit voor ek kan begin werk. En ek dink ons moet jou brow ook sommer vinnig waks.  Dit net n beter lyn gee.  Dit sal jare afneem van jou gesig.” 

“Lyk ek so oud?”  kreun Christel.

“Nee...net n bietjie moeg ...vir die lewe,” troos Adele diskreet. 

“Kan ek eers gou was en blaas - dan lift jy haar gesig en brow sodra ek klaar is,” chip Mickelle in.  “Bring net die teesakkies solank.” 

“Maak so,” se Adele.  “Ek kan jou bene en bikinilyn ook wax as jy tyd het,” bied Adele vriendelik aan.  “Dit laat n vrou altyd beter voel as sy van onooglike hare ontslae raak.  En ek kan vir jou n hartjie wax op jou privaat plekkie… ek doen dit gereeld vir Valentynsdag en anniversaries.” 

“Ek is pas geskei van my man,” se Christel afgemete.  “Hoekom sou ek n hartjie op my nartjie wou he?” 

“Skuus, gedink dit sal jou opbeur.” 

“Dink jy dit sal n non in n klooster opbeur om n hartjie onder haar panty te laat wax?  Ek lyk dalk nie vir jou soos Moeder Teresa nie, maar glo my ek leef al maande soos sy.  In elk geval wat die bed betref.” 

“Sorry,” maak Adele verlee verskoning.  “Dalk oor ses maande of so.  Ons hou dit maar by die brow vir vandag.” 

“Ek dink ons hou dit by die brows vir ewig.  Ek is klaar met mans, don't need them.”  Mickelle beduie met sy wenkbroue vir Adele om later terug te kom en lei Christel na die wasbak……..

Mickelle blaas haar hare.  “Hou daai teesakkies solank teen jou oe, madam,”beveel hy streng.  “Adele is goed, maar daai bags is 3D.”  Christel loer later onder die teesakkies uit. 

“My hare lyk baie wow, dankie.”  Sy skud haar kop.  “Nou moet ons net iets aan my oe doen…” 

“ADELE!” skree Mickelle.  “Jy kan maar die potte wax en die make-up kit inbring.  We are ready for you.  As daai koerant n scam storie plaas, moet Christel ten minste gorgeous lyk op elke foto.” 

“Ek glo selfs as hulle jou die dag begrawe, moet niemand kan se jy was n vaal corpse nie,” stem Adele saam en sit haar make-up kit langs Christel neer. 

“Jy praat my taal, girl,” se Christel.  Sy hou haar lee koppie na Mickelle uit.  “Wat is die kans vir n refill?”  “Refill is on its way, mam,” se Mickelle. 

“Sit jy net daar en relax.  You are in the best hands.”  Hy gryp die koppie en stap met swaaiende heupe weg.