waxing legs

debbie55

I have a question for anyone out there that can help. I've starting waxing my legs and I think it's great but I.m having a problem when the hair starts growing in. The hair isn't ingrown but grows in parallel just under the skin. I've tried exfoliating(wet and dry), alpha hydrox lotion, a loufah sponge but nothing works. It's to the point when I'm ready to wax I have to pick the hairs out straight with tweezers to wax. Any suggestions out there?

Sariel

sorry you haven't gotten a response earlier, but since i'm in the neighborhood now, i'll give it a shot ..

i've begun a lot of research for waxing and sugaring, but i haven't seen any mention of a reaction like yours. so, i can't really make a suggestion about it .. how deep below the skin is the hairs growing back? would it hurt and bleed when you tweeze the hairs up to wax again? with that, if you're already going hair by hair with tweezers, why just pluck them then, instead of going over your legs again with wax?

debbie55

Thanks for getting back to me, Sariel. It doesn't bleed or hurt. It's just very thin layer of skin that the hair is under. It's almost like the skin is to tough or the hair is to weak to push thru. Strange!! I have found that if I take a dry loufah to my dry skin that the hair is free then. It's also seems to be just the back of my legs and I have tried not having something constantly against the back of leg to see if that would help but it doesn't. I also keep my skin very moisturised. Any suggestions?

Sariel

i've been reading that exfoliating (like with the loofah thing) is the first basic attack against ingrown hairs. and other delayed skin reactions, i think. daily/frequent exfoliating on the waxed skin, starting the day the skin is waxed, and forever on. there are topical products targeted for razor bumps and postule reactions, but i don't know if they would have any effect on the type of ingrown hairs you have ...

if the dry loofah thing really works without damaging or irritating the skin, then i'd say keep doing it. same with the moisterizing, that's good for the skin in any case. i don't have anything else to say for this particular situation, but i do have a couple websites with more info about waxing legs:

http://www.get-great-legs.com/index.html
http://www.hairremoval-wax.com/index.html
http://www.hairfacts.com/index.html

i'm in planning for writing a comprehensive guide for waxing and sugaring, and after i get some responses from beauty sites, i'll write it and post it here to share.

bhamze

It's important when waxing to spread the wax/sugar in the direction of hair growth and remove in one smooth movement against the hair growth (don't pull strip or wax upward pull away from skin holding the strip or peice of wax/sugar as close to the skin as possible) also, another hint is to use exfoliants in between waxing. This helps the skin from building up dead cells that can block the new hair from pushing up thru the follicle. I hope this helps. I'd be happy to answer any other ?'s as this is one of the things I do for a living.

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