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| I'm new to triathlons and well...esthetics as well. After a bad crash moutain biking with much open flesh, leg hair, and near infection, it was time to look at removing some follicle.
Well, a week or so ago I went for my very first leg waxing appointment. I was told that it was "the best way if you don't want to maintain it as much". As an experiment, I wore the old HRM to remember what the experience was like....it hurt. The esthetician - "why you do this?" Me - "I'm doing an Ironman triathlon" The Esthetician - "not very manly" as she tore 1400 pain sensitive follicles from their subcutaneous home. Heart rate date included: 49minutes and you can see just about every strip. Enjoy the experience! brad. 
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| That was funny, thanks for recording the experience! You didn't get that Brazillian style did you? The spike at 37 minutes makes me think that you did.
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 Silver member | Now you know what we go through...sort of. Did you get a full leg wax...all the way up??? Congrats on taking the plunge though. Its much easier to maintain (and less painful) after the first time.
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| i find a pint of beer before the event makes it less painful! |
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 Bronze member | LMAO! For future reference, you might enjoy this: http://www.shaveeverywhere.com/ Good for a laugh in the meantime :-) |
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| ryanlc - 2006-08-07 12:10 AM
That was funny, thanks for recording the experience! You didn't get that Brazillian style did you? The spike at 37 minutes makes me think that you did.
Maybe that was his.....uh.......bum. A la "Deuce Bigalow".
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| I love that site! No brazillian here, went halfway up my quads. She asked me if I wanted and I said something to the effect of: "Not even if you said it was free!" brad
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| How often would a hairy kind of guy need to get a wax? Cost? I hate those weeks when I get razor bumps on my arse! |
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Bronze member | HA! HA! HA!
Does anyone else find it funny that someone would monitor their heart rate... well... let's face it... only a TRIATHLETE would do this during a waxing procedure! I think this needs to go in the, "You know you are a tri dork when...", thread.
Well, welcome to our world... of waxing.
Personally, I'll do my arms, but nothing else.
I did the "brazillan" one time... when I was in India on business (hey, you can pass up arm and a brazillian wax, manicure, and pedicure for a grand total of $25!!!)... let's just say there was screaming... bleeding... infected hair folicles that produced pimples afterwards... AND it only lasted about 2 days (aka: the hair was already growing in and you could see it). Yes, totally gross.. right???!!!!!
So, no more waxing for me, unless it's the arms.
I tried the legs once... and it hurt too bad... so I got one strip done (I have a home waxing pot, like they have at the salon)... and nothing else.
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| Way too funny. Looks like you stayed in zone 1 at least! |
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Bronze member | Even with 15 years of (on and off) leg shaving under my belt I've never once done a wax job.
However, sitting around bored watching TV one evening (back in my pure cycling days well before getting married) I individually plucked out both legs from the knee down with tweezers ....... THAT took awhile to grow back.  |
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| That was good stuff, thanks for the link! |
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Bronze member | The HRM data was hilarious. It makes me wonder what mine does when I go. More seriously, the longer you wax, the slower and finer it grows back and less of it grows back. I went once a month when I started a year ago and now I go once every six weeks. I have a friend who only has to do it once every two to three months and even then it's not very much.
For those of you who tried to wax your legs at home, I definitely suggest going to the salon for it. I tried it at home and spent an hour getting only three strips done. I had to take deep breaths to psych myself up in between each one, and all were accompanied by some language I would never consider using in front of my mother. It was painful at the salon, but nothing like at home. And it gets . . . I won't say better, I'll say less painful each time.
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| KSH - 2006-08-07 10:14 AM HA! HA! HA! Does anyone else find it funny that someone would monitor their heart rate... well... let's face it... only a TRIATHLETE would do this during a waxing procedure! LOL I had designs on wearing my HRM some evening for.........uhhhh, other things. But I haven't quite convinced my wife that it's for scientific training purposes. |
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| men's nair......gotta do it more often but a hell of a lot less painful |
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| This always reminds me of this video. The video itself is safe for work, but some of the pics on the site might not be:
http://www.ejbdotcom.net/content/14239.html |
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| I'm going to use this to explain to my wife why I will NEVER get my back waxed again! Tried it once when I was younger, tried it again 2 years later. SO NOT WORTH IT! |
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| Ouch! sounds like it hurt! |
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 Gold member | Daremo - 2006-08-07 3:56 PM
Even with 15 years of (on and off ) leg shaving under my belt I've never once done a wax job.
However, sitting around bored watching TV one evening (back in my pure cycling days well before getting married ) I individually plucked out both legs from the knee down with tweezers ....... THAT took awhile to grow back.
What were you watching, a Roots marathon? Who has that kind of time? :p |
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