Inexpensive waxing needed urgently!!!

foxxrok

I usually go to Urbana to get waxed and I love the service but like most places it is just too expensive for me now and I NEED to get waxed.
Thank God for maxi dresses is all I can say.:P

Could anyone please tell me places that do deals for hollywood and full leg waxing? (and if you know if they do any other beauty deals that would be fab to share)

Or even if you know of a good and qualified beauty therapist who works in their home that would be qualified to do specialised waxing (hollywood) and doesn't cost very much.

squeakyduck

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/92/50805392.html

Cheap and cheerful! My friend goes here and raves about her. I text yesterday and she said she could do next Friday. She's obviously in demand!

Happy Waxing!

foxxrok

Great! Thanks. I will send her an email now. Don't know if I could wait so long though so still need people to let me know where is good and cheap.:D

iguana

squeakyduck wrote: »

Cheap and cheerful! My friend goes here and raves about her. I text yesterday and she said she could do next Friday. She's obviously in demand!

What does your friend normally get done? Does she know why there is such a big price difference between the Brazilian and the Hollywood when they are basically the same thing?

squeakyduck

Just a Hollywood. I'm going to go to her when I manage to get some free time. Brazilians are horrible. It's like a knacker tash down there! €25 is decent to get it all gone. Definitely better than shelling out like €60 elsewhere for the same procedure!

iguana

A brazilian means that all the hair is gone apart from a decorative piece on the pubic bone, all the hair 'down there' is removed. It's all gone from the labia. The brazilian is actual slightly more work as the hair needs to be shaped on top, so usually brazilians and hollywoods cost the same. I've just read a few descriptions of people going to smaller beauticians for a brazilian and getting the completely wrong section of hair removed.

squeakyduck

iguana wrote: »

A brazilian means that all the hair is gone apart from a decorative piece on the pubic bone,e brazilian is actual slightly more work as the hair needs to be shaped on top, I've just read a few descriptions of people going to smaller beauticians for a brazilian and getting the completely wrong section of hair removed.

I don't like the sound of either of this!
I like to be totally done! It feels much nicer! Yeah, I do guess you're right on the price too. But I never complain! The cheaper the better. The last girl I used to go to did a full hollywood for €15. She was amazing. She went home in January though!

foxxrok

iguana wrote: »

A brazilian means that all the hair is gone apart from a decorative piece on the pubic bone, all the hair 'down there' is removed. It's all gone from the labia. The brazilian is actual slightly more work as the hair needs to be shaped on top, so usually brazilians and hollywoods cost the same. I've just read a few descriptions of people going to smaller beauticians for a brazilian and getting the completely wrong section of hair removed.

Brazilian means strip infront of labia is left including top of front labia being left (including ass hair being removed totally), whereas hollywood is completely bare front and back.where you need to remove hair in hollywood is right infront of clitororis which if done wrong can be extremely painful and damaging (which means it would definitely cost more to perform insurance wise) so to pay €25 for it to be done correctly I would say shut up and stop making a fuss as that is extremely cheap.Insurance in salons makes it very dear plus they abuse the whole aethestic mode of hair on females.If anything the brazilian is being set at an extremely cheap price, not the hollywood being charged at an high price. If anything both brazilian and hollywood should be set at €25/€35 so stop complaining about a treatment being so cheap. Jesus Christ ... why do so people think just cos something may be inexpensive that they think they are getting ripped off?! If you don't want it done then shut up and pay the rip off salon prices otherwise take full benefit of what is being offered from people in their homes and small businesses.
There are a few questions you need to ask anyone working from home or from their own business.
i.Are you qualified?
ii.With what qualifying beauty therapist body are you qualified.. ITEC, CIDESCO etc ...and you are fully entitled to ask for numbers to check them up before going to be waxed etc.
iii.Are you insured?
iii.How long are you qualified?
Please note that if you don't ask these questions and you have a problem with the beautician (e.g. he/she has lied..or meaning you haven't checked their credentials correctly) you may not recieve any damages of lawful sueing, as there are many people who think they can wax others without needing the knowledge behind it.

squeakyduck

Wow Foxxroc! You sure know your stuff. Insurance and that stuff never came to mind! I thought the prices were set so high because of what they have to see!

iguana

foxxrok wrote: »

Brazilian means strip infront of labia is left including top of front labia being left (including ass hair being removed totally), whereas hollywood is completely bare front and back.where you need to remove hair in hollywood is right infront of clitororis which if done wrong can be extremely painful and damaging (which means it would definitely cost more to perform insurance wise) so to pay €25 for it to be done correctly I would say shut up and stop making a fuss as that is extremely cheap.

A proper brazilian removes all the hair from the entire labia, the only hair left is above the vaginal area and on the pubic bone. The clitoris doesn't have any hair anywhere near it on a normal body, it's tucked well behind the lips and underneath a hood (the prepuce).

It's not going to make a difference insurance wise and the brazilian is generally more work as the hair on the pubis needs to be shaped, either into a symmetrical strip or sometimes into another shape. In fact if you look at the history of that wax you'll find that up until quite recently the brazilian could also mean removing all the hair. The difference was created because a lot of people are creeped out by a total lack of hair.

The €25 cost is fine, my question is why a brazilian, would be so much cheaper. I've heard some pretty hilarious stories for what passes for a brazilian in some Irish salons, so I suspect that this beautician isn't offering a actual brazilian at all. If you are beautician and you have been leaving the hair on the labia then you aren't doing it right. I've never gotten one in Ireland but as I've said I've been warned by a lot of people to double check what's actually been offered for a brazilian as so many beauticians don't know what they are, including by a salon manager in London who told me that they often have to retrain Irish beautician about what different waxes mean. I've been to at least 10 salons in London and 1 in the US, I also know from girlfriends from Chicago, NY, Seattle, SF, Barcelona, Toronto, Vancouver and South Africa that a brazilian means all the hair apart from a decorative strip on the pubis is removed.

Faith

Off topic, but I got waxed for years in salons in Ireland and the UK. I thought I was getting a Brazilian. It wasn't until I went to Citywax in Cork that I realised what a Brazilian actually was! Everywhere else I'd been going left hair on the labia and/or bum. It's actually ridiculous that trained professionals aren't doing things like Brazilians properly.

foxxrok

Actually yeah Ive heard that about a few beauticians too (that they leave way too much hair on) from here and england.I have gone to a salon before and wanted brazilian and a basic one was all the beautician was doing so i had to tell her what to do.never went back there cos when i spoke to the manager she said "that is a brazilian" when it clearly wasn't. and when a good salon takes on new staff they usually make sure they are trained in the same technique of waxing so there is no difference if you get mary, jane or whoever to wax you, so they would "retrain" them in each difference wax style to the salon's preferred method.
Another thing, while I remember it, some salons would leave a few stray hairs (which are supposed to be tweezed) saying they didn't want to go over with wax again incase of sensitivity reaction and ask you to come back in 2-3 weeks to go over it again to get a proper clearance, so that they will make more money. You just have to be careful with where you go and the best places to go are places that give you a "clean" impression, and places that have been referred by friends. If you have any doubt about a place just leave. Or if you're getting waxed and not happy ask them to stop. Especially when it's your delicate bits

Gyalist

I would guess from the fact that the writer of the ad used the Portuguese word Depilacao in the title, that she knows what a Brazilian wax should really be.
I could be wrong though.