Two back-to-back (or is that front-to-front?) encounters with Brazilians of the waxed kind:
Sunday while I was at my regular hole-in-the-wall gym, I was watching Australia's Next Top Model. Many of the lasses were mortified when the Australian version of Tyra Banks announced that it was time for their Brazilian waxes. One experienced waxee tried to downplay the pain factor, but no one seemed particularly thrilled about the prospect of having their crotch hairs yanked out of their tender vulvas and asses, particularly my favorite contestant, who confessed to going au naturale. When waxing time arrived, much screaming and crying ensued. And I am not just talking about me.
Yesterday, on the other hand, I went to a super fancy branch of my gym chain in SoHo. It was a good thing that I shaved my legs and pits on Sunday afternoon as Step 1 in my two step hair removal process for my upcoming trip to India. (Step 2 will be to use the electric razor that yanks hairs out by the roots – which has a name that I can't recall this second – so that I don't have to worry while I am in India.) I think they might not have let me into the gym with my fur matting.
Anyway, as I wrote on The People Under the Stairmasters, an awesome group blog on gym culture, I was assaulted by all the shiny, waxed snatch parading around the locker room. The lighting seriously reflected off the poon in blinding ways. I am not making this up. A bald man would possibly kill everyone in sight range with the power rays that would emanate from his skull. He probably should not be in the women's locker room, though, so I think I am safe, but still.
Off to my wacky internship and then my even wackier road trip.
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Why did you do Step 1 so far in advance?
ReplyDeleteit's called an epilade (spelling?) i've never really known if i should pronounce it "ep-ih-lay-d" or "ep-ih-lay-dee"
ReplyDeleteanyhow, i use one (haven't used a razor since i was 18). it leaves less stubble than waxing, and hurts less too because the skin isn't pulled; only the hair (which is painful by itself)
although they claim it can work on really short hair (shaving stubble regrowth of 3 days or so), you get MUCH cleaner, smoother results if the hair is longer and finer.
the good news is that every time you use it your hair grows in sparser and finer. i've been using it for 6 years, and when my leg hair is fully grown out it's about 1/90th of what it used to look like when i was a teenager (a forrest). my mother has used one for about 40 years (she's 60) and at this point she has like 15 leg hairs left that grow in once every 6 months.
i tried the laser hair removal once, but cried like a little baby, thus never went back for the rest of the required sessions (6 or so)
on another topic, penetration, oral, fingers, even vibrators feel better on a 100% smooth vagina. i don't give a hoot about my bf liking it, or about having a furry bikini line at the beach... but i do give a hoot about being 20 times more sensitive in my lady regions.
(sorry-longest comment ever)
Best brazilian waxing ever was America's NTM Cycle 1. Robyn was a scream!
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