Waxing at home

11-06-2018

Cosmetology

Waxing is the oldest way to remove unwanted hair, but now it is often called waxing. For a long time, oriental beauties used wax to remove hair, which made their skin soft and velvety like silk. This event has reached our time and has managed to win favor with many beauties.

This procedure is one of the most affordable methods of hair removal, it can be carried out both at home and in the salon. Hair removal occurs along with the bulb, which will ensure the smoothness and tenderness of your skin. And in order to make the process comfortable for everyone, waxing for hair removal began to be produced in 3 types: hot, cold and warm.

Detailed description of wax types

Hot wax

It is more suitable for beauty salons or for owners of wax refiners who have mastered waxing hair removal techniques at home. This waxing is more painless than the cold way. This can be explained by the fact that the material, by heating the body, opens the pores and hairs are removed more easily. This tool can be purchased at the pharmacy and specials. stores.

Warm wax

Ideal for home treatment. It is produced in special jars and cassettes, inside which there is a built-in thermostat, heating the wax to the required temperature. With such a warm wax is not likely to burn.

Cold wax

Available in the form of strips between which is cold wax. For the procedure, you only need to warm up the wax strips between your palms, rubbing a little. After that, separate the strips from each other and stick them on the epilated area and with a sharp movement remove them against the hair growth.

We proceed to the procedure of waxing

The most important thing before waxing is to get a quality wax and mentally tune in to the procedure.

A couple of days before the waxing session, you need to get rid of dead skin particles with a scrub.
Before applying the wax, it is necessary to wash the area to be epilated and degrease it.
We heat the material to the required temperature and, having determined the necessary one, we apply it on the necessary area of skin. If it is hot or warm wax, application is carried out with a spatula in the direction of hair growth, we described the cold technique earlier.
Apply special paper or cloth over the uncured product.
After 2 minutes, when the wax is a little cold (you can not allow full cooling) sharply pulling the paper against the hair growth, and with your other hand hold the skin.
After that, it is necessary to remove any remaining hair on the depilated area with a swab moistened with oil.
This whole process can cause irritation on the skin, so you need to calm it down. We apply soothing lotion that prevents rapid hair growth.

After the procedure, it is not recommended to apply perfume and cosmetics to the cleaned places, to visit the sauna, to go to the solarium and to the beach, for about 2 days, due to the high sensitivity of the skin.

Pros and cons of waxing hair removal

Benefits of waxing

The advantages of waxing are:

Availability and low cost;
You can hold sessions and at home;
Enough quick process;
Suitable for owners of any hair type;
The effect persists long enough. And if you resort to the procedure regularly, the hair becomes less, softer, as well as thinner;
With a properly conducted event, no irritation or redness is observed.

Disadvantages of waxing

Waxing minuses can be considered:

A weighty minus of waxing is the soreness of sensations during the session. Especially people with hypersensitivity of the skin suffer, it was for this that your moral attitude was needed;
When waxing removes all types of hair, including vellus, and this can lead to the appearance of hard dark hairs;
Waxing is not possible if the hair is too short;
After the event, red dots appear on the skin. And their disappearance occurs only on the 4th day.

Contraindications for waxing

Carefully study the cases in which waxing is not allowed:

If a person is sick with diabetes, varicose veins, herpes, infectious diseases with damaged skin, moles, warts, then waxing should be abandoned.
If you are allergic to the ingredients that make up the wax.
Waxing is not recommended for pregnant women because of the pain caused, which can cause a painful shock, which is terrible threat of miscarriage.
For those who take blood thinners.
Also, if you have done a deep peeling procedure (removal of dead skin cells).

The most delicate area of hair removal - bikini

Epilation of the intimate zone with the help of waxing is the most unpleasant and if you decide on it, then you are a brave man! And so that the procedure was not so painful for you, we will tell about its nuances.

One of the advantages of waxing hair removal is its superiority over shaving. After all, after shaving the skin becomes "goose", the effect lasts for 1-5 days, and the grown hairs resemble a spiny hedgehog. And with waxing you will avoid these unpleasant moments. The skin after waxing is smooth, the effect lasts 2-4 weeks, the hairs with each procedure become smaller and smaller, they are soft and do not prick.
A few days before the procedure it is better not to shave, it is necessary for better adhesion of the wax to the hairs, because this procedure does not apply to short hair.
In order to reduce pain, it is necessary to apply anesthetic ointment on the epilated areas and cover with film for about 30 minutes.
There are 2 types of epilation of the bikini area: a simple bikini epilation, which removes hair that is visible from under the clothes and a deep bikini; the entire inguinal zone is depilated, and also between the buttocks. Another name for this epilation is Brazilian. If you decide on waxing, it is better to choose the first option, it will give you an idea of the whole range of sensations during epilation, and after it you will understand whether Brazilian epilation is acceptable for you with wax.

Step-by-step waxing technique for bikini waxing

It is necessary to sit comfortably on a couch or armchair and place your legs.
Then the master will apply a degreasing lotion.
With the help of a wooden spatula, hot wax is applied (its temperature is about 40 degrees).
After it hardens, the master jerks off the wax along with the hairs.

To cope with unpleasant sensations during this epilation, you need to know a few nuances:

Hair removal should not be done before and during critical days. Since at this time the girls noticed a high sensitivity.
The best time for this procedure is 3-5 days after critical days, and the best hours are in the morning or 16-18 hours in the evening.
The most painful procedure will be 3 days before the critical days and the first 2 days of menstruation, also in the late evening and during ovulation.
After the procedure, you can also apply a lotion that slows down hair growth.
Skirts, dresses, but not jeans and shorts are suitable for going to the salon for intimate epilation, as you can earn irritation.

Scheme of waxing at home

Before waxing, you need to prepare all the necessary spatula, wax, wax strips, calming irritated skin lotion, hair retardants. After that, proceed to self-waxing:

We disinfect the epilated zone.
We sprinkle the epilation area with talcum powder or baby powder, in order to ensure better adhesion of the material and hair.
Long strips apply wax in the direction of the fit of the hair.
From above we impose paper or fabric.
With a sharp movement we tear the wax in the direction against the growth of hair
If you notice not removed hairs, they need to be removed with tweezers, without applying wax a second time.
Remove residual materials with a damp cloth.
We apply a soothing lotion.

After waxing is not allowed to take water procedures for about 6 hours, as well as not to sunbathe. You can also apply a means to slow hair growth.