STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

ViViDogWear · Kate Spade

Brazilian

bex · Chanel

wow! that is really cheap! the place where i go is $70 and my best friend's place is $80! i'd say you are getting a steal! or i'm being ripped off!

edit: so you know, my best friend lives in NYC! but i live in Ohio- so that kinda squashes your theory crystal!

-- Edited by bex at 14:19, 2005-06-06

crystal · Kate Spade

i'd say $40 for brazilian/playboy is about average for the LA & surrounding areas. i would have no clue the price range in other states but i would imagine NY & FL are more expensive while states in the middle w/ no ocean are less expensive. anyways, tell me about the $28 place!! do they do a good job? i've always found the more expensive/professional places (i.e. NOT the back of a nail place) do a better job. i think a few strays are ok but ur esthetician should tweeze them (assuming they were just too short to be waxed & that's why they didn't come out). my old place was really good but the chick was kinda bitchy so i stopped going.

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

Actually, pricing on Brazilians is lower where they're the most popular...which is why Souther California, New York, etc are the cheapest. I used to get them done in San Diego at the BEST place in the world...took the woman 10 minutes, NO stray hairs, and she didn't even need to use tweezers! And it cost about $45. Now that I'm back in the Bay Area I can't find a Brazilian for less than $60, and it takes them over 1/2 an hour to do, and it's not as perfect. Just one more reason to miss San Diego...

Lilykind · Hermes

I only did it once...it was $50 in LA and I didn't like the girl I went too, plus she took like 45 minutes and that was just too long to be in that kind of pain!

I want to know about the $28 place too!

shopgirl82 · Chanel

it costs me $50 not including tip. i am thinking that i *might* try doing it myself?! i'm scared. it makes sense that the places near the beach, and where women get it a lot are the cheapest. it's the supply and demand theory.

crystal · Kate Spade

gingembre1 wrote:

Actually, pricing on Brazilians is lower where they're the most popular...which is why Souther California, New York, etc are the cheapest. I used to get them done in San Diego at the BEST place in the world...took the woman 10 minutes, NO stray hairs, and she didn't even need to use tweezers! And it cost about $45. Now that I'm back in the Bay Area I can't find a Brazilian for less than $60, and it takes them over 1/2 an hour to do, and it's not as perfect. Just one more reason to miss San Diego...

oh, hah! that makes sense... see i was just thinking that it seems like everything is more expensive in NY & less expensive in the midwest... i guess not when it comes to waxing!!

shopgirl82, u r a brave woman. i've tried doing it myself & it is at lease twice as painful. since u cannot help but flinch & hesitate it takes a super long time, super painful & not as "clean". i mean it's hard enough for a pro to get the right angle but doing it urself is just never gonna happen. i can do the sides & top (hope that's not TMI) myself w/o much incident, but anything more "inward" i leave to the pros!

f413 · Kenneth Cole

are there any "do it at home" products ?

HeatherLynn · Gucci

I get sugared instead of waxed. I have been going to the girl who does it for a few years now and I get it done really cheap. It is $35. I sometimes have a few stray hairs that were too short or whatever but nothing I cant handle.

atlgirl · Gucci

f413, I use Poetic Wax (I think it's made by BlissLabs), available at Sephora. I don't do Brazilians - just a standard wax is fine for me - but I have been at-home waxing for three years now with the Poetic, and love it. It does take me longer than having someone else do it at a salon, but it's significantly less expensive and actually, in many ways, less painful than someone doing it with strips.

I do the bikini line and my upper lip - oddly enough, usually the upper lip is the most painful.

Poetic costs $40-ish and you can use it more than once, so it's pretty economical.

ViViDogWear · Kate Spade

gingembre1 wrote:

Actually, pricing on Brazilians is lower where they're the most popular...which is why Souther California, New York, etc are the cheapest. I used to get them done in San Diego at the BEST place in the world...took the woman 10 minutes, NO stray hairs, and she didn't even need to use tweezers! And it cost about $45. Now that I'm back in the Bay Area I can't find a Brazilian for less than $60, and it takes them over 1/2 an hour to do, and it's not as perfect. Just one more reason to miss San Diego...

That makes a lot of sense. Wow $70 is a lot to pay. I'll definitely try to find the $28 place. It's one of those "a friend of a friend" goes there thing.

10 minutes! That'd be awesome! It takes me like 30-40 min and ugh... who wants to lay there like that for so long. I've tried to do it at home before but never again! let's just say it wasn't pretty trying to clean up wax that wouldn't come off

f413 · Kenneth Cole

atlgirl wrote:

f413, I use Poetic Wax (I think it's made by BlissLabs), available at Sephora. I don't do Brazilians - just a standard wax is fine for me - but I have been at-home waxing for three years now with the Poetic, and love it. It does take me longer than having someone else do it at a salon, but it's significantly less expensive and actually, in many ways, less painful than someone doing it with strips. I do the bikini line and my upper lip - oddly enough, usually the upper lip is the most painful. Poetic costs $40-ish and you can use it more than once, so it's pretty economical.

How does it work without strips? I looked it up on sephora and it didn't list the instructions.

-thanks

atlgirl · Gucci

You apply the wax with an applicator (several applicators are supplied with each kit) and just pull the wax off by itself. It takes a little practice - you want to put the wax on fairly thick, so you have something to grip when you start to remove it, and make a little "handle" at the end of whatever direction you're spreading it.

That sounds harder than it is - truly. I just start spreading, and when I'm out of wax, I kind of "goop" it together at the end so there's a decent-sized blob for me to hold on to.

I have tried other at-home waxes before, and this stuff works *so* well compared to anything else I've used. The cool thing (at least in my experience) is that no matter how much you heat it, it never gets hot enough to burn me (which was a potential issue with prior waxes).

HTH

f413 · Kenneth Cole

atlgirl- thanks, I want to give it a try

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

Haha, I've tried the at home wax. It was 10 times more painful doing it myself. I would definitely not recommend it. Since I don't have an SO at the moment I don't get Brazilians done, but if I do at some point, I'll pay to have someone else do it.

crystal · Kate Spade

f413, just to give u an opinion from someone else who has tried poetic wax... i HATED it!! it was a disaster & took forever to get the wax off where i spread it too thin. i'm sure it takes practice & after a while it may work very well, but i would just say expect to still need to shave after u use it for the first time. i think the at home wax that nair makes (w/ strips & microwaveable wax) is 1000x easier to use. i use this for my legs & bikini line (as i said before, i leave the brazilian to the pros) & it works awesome!