I'm going to step away from hair products for a moment to talk about hair removal. Now everyone knows the most common way to remove hair, which is by shaving. Other common forms are waxing and depilatories, such as Nair or Veet.
My experience with waxing:
When I was little, I was told by a close friend that I had huge eyebrows and a mustache. Well, being 13 and impressionable, I asked my mom to get a wax and see how I liked it. She agreed because waxing actually helps to thin out hair by pulling it from the root. This pulling causes the hair to grow fine, instead of the coarse hair grown from shaving. Now I have smaller, more managable eyebrows because of it. I was scared to do waxing on any other part of me though. Now I save money and just pluck them myself, because after so many waxes when I was little, it doesn't hurt to pluck out a few hairs every couple of days.
My experience with shaving:
I started shaving in middle school. Being a brunette, my hair is extremely dark. It also happens to be thicker hair than most Caucasian girls in America. My hair grows in coarse from shaving, because it only removes the hair above the epidermis, and not below. SO the blunt ends of the cut hair grow out of the epidermis, and they are thicker than plucked hair. This left me with hair under the skin, making my skin darker than it actually is, because of the brown hair under it. Another problem I had with shaving is that my hair grows FAST. I would shave in the morning and it would be back by night.
My experience with depilatories:
Depilatories are chemicals that eat away at the hair until it is fine enough to easily rub and the hair will break and be wiped away. Well with me, my coarse hair wasn't easily removed with Nair or Veet. I would have to go after the recommended 10 minutes, and my skin would be irritated and I would STILL have to shave off the hair to get it to come off.
When I was about to go to senior prom, I wanted to remove my arm hair, because it is a bit thick and brown, and noticeable. Well it didn't come off after 10 minutes, but half was gone and half was still attached, so I had to shave. Well my skin was so irritated and it was such a stressful time in my life, I broke out in HIVES. The combination just ruined my skin, and I had bright red arms with a dark green dress. I looked like Christmas.
SO:
With all these failed methods, what can I do to remove hair, have it grow back slower, without burning myself, irritating my skin, and save money?
EPILATION
Epilators look like electric rasers, but instead of cutting the hair at the skin, it plucks the hair from the root with many many little tweezers.
I own an Emjoi Soft Caress. It can be powered up with a charger and taken out and about, portable. Or it can be plugged into the wall and used that way.
I tested it out on my big toes first, they have coarse black hair on them and I wanted to test out a small patch. It felt like I was plucking my hair from my toes. Not horrible, but a little shocking and weird feeling.
Now, this was not the same when I tried it on my underarms. IT HURT! So for the first few times I've used it, I go for as long as I can, and take a break. I don't take out all the hair in one go. I just wear a long sleeved shirt for a few days until it's all gone. Now with shaving, usually I'd have LOTS of hair by now, it's 3 days after my last epilation and I have NO hair under my arms. It is really exciting to see no hair there after so long.
I'm now trying it on my legs, and IT HURTS. But I don't do it all in one go, so it's not horrible. I'm doing it over a span of a week, once in the morning and once at night. So far, I have a lot of hair so it's a small dent, but it's a dent all the same.
So far, even though it's PAINFUL, I'm loving my epilator. It will save me money on rasers if it lasts a few years, and I don't have to shave and irritate my skin with rasers all the time.
Now I will say that my skin is sore, and red bumps are bound to come up, but I epilated my underarms yesterday and I have no irritation today.
I LOVE MY EPILATOR
My experience with waxing:
When I was little, I was told by a close friend that I had huge eyebrows and a mustache. Well, being 13 and impressionable, I asked my mom to get a wax and see how I liked it. She agreed because waxing actually helps to thin out hair by pulling it from the root. This pulling causes the hair to grow fine, instead of the coarse hair grown from shaving. Now I have smaller, more managable eyebrows because of it. I was scared to do waxing on any other part of me though. Now I save money and just pluck them myself, because after so many waxes when I was little, it doesn't hurt to pluck out a few hairs every couple of days.
My experience with shaving:
I started shaving in middle school. Being a brunette, my hair is extremely dark. It also happens to be thicker hair than most Caucasian girls in America. My hair grows in coarse from shaving, because it only removes the hair above the epidermis, and not below. SO the blunt ends of the cut hair grow out of the epidermis, and they are thicker than plucked hair. This left me with hair under the skin, making my skin darker than it actually is, because of the brown hair under it. Another problem I had with shaving is that my hair grows FAST. I would shave in the morning and it would be back by night.
My experience with depilatories:
Depilatories are chemicals that eat away at the hair until it is fine enough to easily rub and the hair will break and be wiped away. Well with me, my coarse hair wasn't easily removed with Nair or Veet. I would have to go after the recommended 10 minutes, and my skin would be irritated and I would STILL have to shave off the hair to get it to come off.
When I was about to go to senior prom, I wanted to remove my arm hair, because it is a bit thick and brown, and noticeable. Well it didn't come off after 10 minutes, but half was gone and half was still attached, so I had to shave. Well my skin was so irritated and it was such a stressful time in my life, I broke out in HIVES. The combination just ruined my skin, and I had bright red arms with a dark green dress. I looked like Christmas.
SO:
With all these failed methods, what can I do to remove hair, have it grow back slower, without burning myself, irritating my skin, and save money?
EPILATION
Epilators look like electric rasers, but instead of cutting the hair at the skin, it plucks the hair from the root with many many little tweezers.
I own an Emjoi Soft Caress. It can be powered up with a charger and taken out and about, portable. Or it can be plugged into the wall and used that way.
I tested it out on my big toes first, they have coarse black hair on them and I wanted to test out a small patch. It felt like I was plucking my hair from my toes. Not horrible, but a little shocking and weird feeling.
Now, this was not the same when I tried it on my underarms. IT HURT! So for the first few times I've used it, I go for as long as I can, and take a break. I don't take out all the hair in one go. I just wear a long sleeved shirt for a few days until it's all gone. Now with shaving, usually I'd have LOTS of hair by now, it's 3 days after my last epilation and I have NO hair under my arms. It is really exciting to see no hair there after so long.
I'm now trying it on my legs, and IT HURTS. But I don't do it all in one go, so it's not horrible. I'm doing it over a span of a week, once in the morning and once at night. So far, I have a lot of hair so it's a small dent, but it's a dent all the same.
So far, even though it's PAINFUL, I'm loving my epilator. It will save me money on rasers if it lasts a few years, and I don't have to shave and irritate my skin with rasers all the time.
Now I will say that my skin is sore, and red bumps are bound to come up, but I epilated my underarms yesterday and I have no irritation today.
I LOVE MY EPILATOR
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