Yet another lesson-

So, my vanity got the best of me the other day and I decided to give at-home waxing a try. I figured that if I could wax my legs, then I wouldn't have to deal with the hair issue as often this summer. Now, everything that I read said that the new at-home kits are much better than those that were previously available. They are supposed to be easier to use and much safer, ie. it is more difficult to burn or hurt myself while I attempt to yank out my leg hair. Now that I'm writing it, I realize how odd the whole thing sounds. That I wanted to put hot wax on my leg, let it set so that the hair gets stuck in the wax, and then pull the whole thing off, ripping out the hair along with the wax. Anyway, I did a little research and it sounded like this new kit from Nair would be a good option. It's supposed to be easier on the skin, using a more pliable wax and it doesn't use cloth strips, rather once the wax sets, you just grab an end and rip. So, I picked it up at Target. Now, the other plus with this kit is that it is supposed to work on shorter hair than your standard wax kit, meaning I don't have to wait until I look like an amazon woman before I can wax. I did a patch test last night and it went pretty smoothly. No problems with my skin and it appeared to take most of the hair off of the area. Now tonight, I went ahead with the whole thing. Alright, I should know by now that when it's supposed to be easy, it never is. I now have wax drops and wax strings all over the bottom of my tub. The insert makes it sound like you use the stick to get a glob of melted wax and after a single wipe on the edge of the tub, you will just lift the wax over and put it on your leg. Ha. You get this globby thing on your stick and you try to wipe off the excess on the edge, but instead of just wiping off, it gets all stringy. So, now I take the whole tub and start holding it over my leg. I proceed put strips of wax on my leg and wait the recommended 20 seconds before I pull it off. I wait, and I make the skin taut, and I pull. Not too bad. And then I look at the wax, and there are like 20 hairs visible on the wax- from a section of leg that was about 4x2 inches. Yeah, not a good percentage there. Ok, I'll try again. Still not so good. I pretty much get done with my right leg, even though there is still quite a bit of hair there. I start in on my left leg. But, now, the wax is starting to get a little harder in the tub. I don't want to have to get up and heat it up again in the microwave, so my solution was to pretty much cover my whole leg in wax. One big huge blob of wax. Yeah, in hindsight, not a good idea. At all. Can I just say, ouch. At least I didn't lose any skin, which was kind of my fear once I started pulling the mass of wax off. So, my foray into waxing is over. Back to my handy-dandy razor, which while it may not last forever and there is the occasional nick, I don't wind up spending the better part of an hour removing what probably only amounts to about 25% of my hair.  So, there you go. Another fabulous evening in my life:)