From a lady........
So I have a colonoscopy tomorrow..... and would just like to share a bit of how my night went last night..
It began as any other normal weekend night. Unwinding from the days events... then the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: ‘Maybe I should get the waxing kit from the medicine cabinet.’ So off i head to the site of my demise: the bathroom.
It was one of those ‘cold wax’ kits. No melting a clump of hot wax…you just rub the strips together in ur hand, they get warm, ya peel em apart and press em to ur leg (or wherever else), and ya pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be?
I mean, I’m not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!) So I pull one of the thin strips out. It’s two strips facing each other and stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, i get the bright idea of using the hair dryer and heat that baby up. (‘Cold wax,’ yeah…right!) I lay the strip across my thigh, hold the skin around it tight and pull.
It works!
OK, so it wasn’t the best feeling, but it wasn’t too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin Extraordinaire. With my next wax strip I move north. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet… This is gonna be simple n save me sum bucks i tell myself.
Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip).
I inhale deeply and brace myself…RRRRIIIPPP!!!!
I’m blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!….OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!
Vision returning, I notice that I’ve only managed to pull off half the strip. WTH???
Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out… I must stay conscious…I must stay conscious. Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe…OK, back to normal.
I want to see my trophy: a wax-covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip!
There’s no hair on it. Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX??? WTH is going on here???
Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip… it’s not! I touch….I'm touching wax. I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake… Remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? So I put my foot down.
Sealed shut! My Ass is sealed shut. Sealed shut! I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself: ‘Please don’t let me have to shit... This won't go well if that happens...
What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!!! I run the hottest water I can stand in the tub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits, and the wax should melt, and I can gently wipe it off, right???
*WRONG!!!!!!!*
I get into the tub – the water is slightly hotter than that used to boil eggs – and down I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub…..in scalding hot water. Which BTW....does not melt cold wax....
So, now I’m stuck to the bottom of the tub. I have cemented myself to the porcelain!! I call my friend thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me out of my sticky situation. It’s a very good conversation starter.
‘So, my ass and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!’
There is a slight pause. She doesn’t know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, ‘Are we talking cheeks or hoo-ha?’ She’s laughing out loud by now…I can hear her. I give her the rundown, and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box. YEAH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else’s night…
While we go through various solutions, I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better than to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!! By now My brain is not working, dignity has pretty much gone out the window and I’m pretty sure I’m going to need sum kind of counselling for this event.
My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace…..the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on n Good Lord, Baby Jesus what have i done??? The scream probably woke the neighbors in a 10 mile radius n scared the shit out of my friend. It’s sooo painful, but I really don’t care.
IT WORKS!!
I get a hearty congratulation from my friend, and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair….THE HAIR IS STILL THERE…….ALL OF IT!
So at this point I shave it off. Hell, I’m numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have taken my own leg off at this point n not felt a thang..
Next week I’m going to try hair coloring……how bad can that turn out???