Waxing at home

shinikins wrote: »

At nearly €54 your definitely mad!! I wax my legs at home using sugar wax, at a cost of maybe €2 in total, you can make a batch in 15 minutes, it keeps for months because all thats in it is sugar, water and lemon juice and it can be used hot or cold. I've never gotten ingrown hairs, and its relatively pain free.

shinikins wrote: »

Sure, its the easiest thing in the world to do!

But I'm running out the door to go to the cinema(Priest 3D!!) I promise faithfully to give you all the details when i get back, might even post pictures if the laptop agree's to cooperate!!

shinikins wrote: »

Change of plans, we're going to the 11:45 show!! :pac:
No pictires of my own to upload becuase the laptop won't recognise the SD card grrrrr.....
Anyway, its very simple

2 cups of water
3 cups of sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice(fresh squeezed or from a bottle-doesn't make a difference)

Put all three in a saucepan and bring to a boil. When the colour changes to golden brown lower the temperature and simmer until it turns dark brown. At this stage take a teaspoon and run under cold water, if it hardens and becomes pliable its ready. Pour into a sealable pot or dish. If it doesn't harden leave it to simmer for a few minutes more and test again. It'll take about 15-20 minutes in all.

When it cools down it will look like this, similar colour to strong tea. You can use it hot or cold. Heat it in the microwave until its runny and use it in the same way as regular wax, use strips of heavy cotton or denim as they will stick to the wax better.

Personally I use it cold, take a lump fro the cold wax and knead it in your fingers, like taffy. It will change colour, become more golden and shiny, once its really soft and slightly sticky its ready to use. You need to dust your skin with babypowder, just a little. Start down at your ankle and smear the wax up your leg, against the direction of hair growth. I know this sounds really odd, but you actually grab hold of more hair this way and its far less painfull. pull the wax away from your skin in a downwards motion. The best thing about using it cold is you can go over the same spot again and again if you need to. You can also target individual hairs.

I'm not going to lie, the techique needs to be practised until you get used to it, but I find it far easier now than other wax's. When I was looking into it first I watched a lot of tutorials on YouTube, Redfootwalking's tutorials were the best IMO she takes you through each stage in a few different videos and is pretty thorough. There is another girl Amy11190 who shows the correct way to apply the sugar wax, but her wax is more of a paste and terribly messy, I prefer to use it when its more solid-less mess and stickiness.

Best thing about sugar wax is that it washes off in water, smells really pleasant and can be reused if you want to(yuck!) And if you boil it too long and it goes hard, you can eat it as its basically a sweet your making! I've noticed my skin is very soft afterwards, and as I said I have had no ingrown hairs as i wax in the natural growth direction of the hair.

Have a look on Youtube, there are loads of tutorials on how to make it and how to use it, lots of them are pushing for sales of their own product of course but you can pick up the methods from their vidoes too. Feel free to ask if you have any questions, I'm here to help!!

shinikins wrote: »

Change of plans, we're going to the 11:45 show!! :pac:
No pictires of my own to upload becuase the laptop won't recognise the SD card grrrrr.....
Anyway, its very simple

2 cups of water
3 cups of sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice(fresh squeezed or from a bottle-doesn't make a difference)

Put all three in a saucepan and bring to a boil. When the colour changes to golden brown lower the temperature and simmer until it turns dark brown. At this stage take a teaspoon and run under cold water, if it hardens and becomes pliable its ready. Pour into a sealable pot or dish. If it doesn't harden leave it to simmer for a few minutes more and test again. It'll take about 15-20 minutes in all.

When it cools down it will look like this, similar colour to strong tea. You can use it hot or cold. Heat it in the microwave until its runny and use it in the same way as regular wax, use strips of heavy cotton or denim as they will stick to the wax better.

Personally I use it cold, take a lump fro the cold wax and knead it in your fingers, like taffy. It will change colour, become more golden and shiny, once its really soft and slightly sticky its ready to use. You need to dust your skin with babypowder, just a little. Start down at your ankle and smear the wax up your leg, against the direction of hair growth. I know this sounds really odd, but you actually grab hold of more hair this way and its far less painfull. pull the wax away from your skin in a downwards motion. The best thing about using it cold is you can go over the same spot again and again if you need to. You can also target individual hairs.

I'm not going to lie, the techique needs to be practised until you get used to it, but I find it far easier now than other wax's. When I was looking into it first I watched a lot of tutorials on YouTube, Redfootwalking's tutorials were the best IMO she takes you through each stage in a few different videos and is pretty thorough. There is another girl Amy11190 who shows the correct way to apply the sugar wax, but her wax is more of a paste and terribly messy, I prefer to use it when its more solid-less mess and stickiness.

Best thing about sugar wax is that it washes off in water, smells really pleasant and can be reused if you want to(yuck!) And if you boil it too long and it goes hard, you can eat it as its basically a sweet your making! I've noticed my skin is very soft afterwards, and as I said I have had no ingrown hairs as i wax in the natural growth direction of the hair.

Have a look on Youtube, there are loads of tutorials on how to make it and how to use it, lots of them are pushing for sales of their own product of course but you can pick up the methods from their vidoes too. Feel free to ask if you have any questions, I'm here to help!!

Eviledna wrote: »

You gotta get it to a really rollicking boil before it will chane colour, and then reduce to a simmer.
Be so so so careful with this, hot sugar caramel gives an awful burn!!

shinikins wrote: »

Which ring do you have the pot over? I found it was easiest to make it over the largest ring, and using a fairly large pot, that way it heated fairly quickly and the sides of the pot were high enough to prevent it boiling right up. Eviledna's right, it really needs to boil hard until the colour changes, only turn the heat down then.