I had an appointment yesterday after work for a bikini wax, and for the first time, underarm waxing. I actually asked the lady before she started how many waxings she did a day and she said, "I do feet mostly." That's when the warning bells should have went off.

Here’s how it went down;

After removing my pants and providing a towel for cover, this little Asian lady proceeded to do the bikini wax first. I had it done once before and it wasn’t so bad. Well, the first strip was ripped off with abandon; I thought she must have taken off the skin too! Two or three strips later, she says in her most Asian accent, “You ha pain?”

“Yes,” I say,”I must be super sensitive today.”

She continues on the left side and by now I’m thinking, why is it so painful this time? After agonizing minutes, which seemed liked hours, she pats my leg and says,

“Ah done, not so mu pain, uh?”

I smile weakly and prepare for the left side. The first strip produces blinding pain! Then she says,

“You turn red easy.”

Yes I do normally.

“Some bruise on thi sid but other sid wors.” She produces a hand mirror and I take a look at my hairless, swollen, black and blue bikini area. I can't believe what she has done to me!

“I sorry, some my fault cause I press too hard but hair too short” I think she forgot to put the powder on first.

Then I tell myself not to be a baby. I can handle the underarms, can’t be as bad as what she has already done, can it?

Ok, left underarm first. “o too short, u shave?”

I shaved three days ago, forgetting I had the appointment. “I try wax, k?” the wax goes on, the strip is applied and the skin is ripped off but the hair stays!

“No problem, I do by hand.”

What does she mean by hand?

She means TWEEZERS people! One by painful one, each short underarm hair is tweezed out by the roots! Every hair that is pulled out is like a red hot needle puncturing the sensitive skin. Never in my imagination did I think ever of having that done, never again will I have that done to me. 1014 excruciating hairs later, ready for the other underarm. I suffer stoically through it, all the while thinking any hour now, it will be all over. Your underarms do swell up as well in case you never knew.

By the way, I learned I have one more hair under my arm on the left side than I do on the right.

So, 45 minutes later I walk as best I can to the lobby, pay my bill in full, minus any tip. I must have looked funny driving through town with both arms at a 45 degree angle, unable to put them down.

So take my advice, buy yourselves some razors and shave before you put on that bathing suit this summer. That’s what I’ll be doing.
>   Submitted By: betty MacDonald