Don't diss it until you try it. I guess that was my motto.
Maybe this is too personal, but I don't do a lot of cleaning up of my body hair. In the summer I try to keep up with the lower legs and the arm pits, but that's about it. I know that a lot of you ladies shave your bikini lines or even shave all of your pubic hair off, and some of you get it waxed off, sometimes regularly. I don't even have the excuse of having fine or light colored body hair, I just don't care enough.
But some of my women friends have said how losing that pubic hair can enhance sexual pleasure. This perked my ears a little, but I didn't do anything about it. I've stared down into my own bush with razor in hand wondering, "how the heck do you even DO this?" I've done some light touch ups with a razor, which gave me an awful prickly sensation just a few hours later. At some point I declared that I would never go down there with a razor ever again but would possibly think about waxing. With waxing you don't get the prickly sensation after.
Years went by...
Then my awesome friend announced she had a friend training in beauty school and was going to host a waxing party. I said I'd get my legs done and was interested in a bikini wax too. My friend also said she was going to try the bikini wax! Yay, well if she was going to do it, I was going to do it. And this was all going to be at a party too, fun for all!
We had a waxing party with three of us getting waxed and a couple on lookers telling us we were crazy. We started with the legs. Getting your legs waxed barely hurts. No problems there, the three of us got half-leg waxes and our legs were nice and smooth.
Then the nether regions were going to get done. And we aren't the kind of people to do this in privet, we closed the blinds, but this WAS a party after all, and we were new to this. A massage table was set up in the middle of the living room. My friend who arranged the whole party went first. I held her hand.
I could tell she was in a lot of pain, but there was also a lot of laughter and some drinks were going around too. Bikini waxing takes a bit, maybe even 30 mins, maybe more? There's a lot of hair down there. Finally my friend was done and it was my turn.
I went with the "landing strip" which means she clears all the hair except for a long rectangular strip of it in the center. The cosmetologist says that that's what she gets. She also told me she does it to her self. Holy crap. Now that, I could never do.
And then she started by trimming the extra long hairs. And then the real shit began. I was committed to getting through this. I kept saying that I had had a natural childbirth without a water tub, so this should be no problem.
I can only describe what happened to me as something close to consensual torture. Having the hair ripped from your crotch hurts A LOT, but only for a few seconds, then it hurts just a little for a long time. But these intense, few-second-long, torture times are frequent. More frequent than labor contractions, and at some point through it your not sure if the "prize" of a well manicured nether region is worth it. You start dreading every rip. Your neurotransmitters are going crazy in your head, you feel high, and then it's over.
I did it! I got my very first bikini wax! Woo! Then I had to go home to get some sleep. I had red spots all over my bikini area and was told that it was normal and would fade in a day or two. If that had really happened, I might have though this was worth it, but instead I got red spots that lasted for weeks, and I got several infected hair follicles that didn't fully heal for months. Basically it messed up my nether regions for a while.
Apparently I got the worst of it, my friends said they didn't have as much issues as I did. I must have more sensitive skin. Anyway, it made me not keen on the idea of ever doing it again.
And I noticed no difference in sexual pleasure either.
Hats off to you ladies who do this regularly. How you deal with the price and the pain is beyond me. I do hope that YOU like it and your not just doing it because you think someone else is going to like it. I can say that no one has ever looked at my untamed bush and gone, "I thought I liked you, but now that I see this, I'm getting out of here."
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