I’ve Done It! (1st ever body waxing)

What would be your first reaction to body waxing, when you heard about it?

For me, pain.

According to Wikipedia, any body part hair can be waxed.  Waxing is a method of semi permanent hair removal which removes the hair from the root.  From here, one could already thought, anything removing from the roots would be painful.  Think about any effort to remove the grass, trees or like Chinese saying, 連根拔起 (removing the roots), to prevent anything from growing again.

Off course for human body hair, chances are, it would grow again.  Hair in waxed area will not grow back in about 2 to 8 weeks (depends on individual).  The difference between shaving and waxing, is that shaving removes the hair from the surface, instead of from the root.  Within a few days, hair can be seen again.  Also, hair grown after shaved is rather rough.  Just like my moustache and beard.  Rough until our daughter also want to stay away.  Not to mention kissing our sons cheeks before sending them to school.

By the way, is kissing sons before sending them off that bad?  I noticed sometimes they said, “Dad, don’t kiss us in front of others.”

Ok, coming back to my waxing.  Why I did it.  For 3 reasons.

Firstly, I am unable to go for circumcision (like in the Bible, but it is not required anymore in Christianity), so I am curious of ways how I could keep myself clean for hygiene purpose.  So, removing the pubic hair would be one way.  Other than shaving, I consider waxing.  I once consider having my head hair waxed, but, just wild thoughts.

Then, I also find the pubic hair does some pulling when I am wearing the tight cycling shorts.  Besides that, the running shorts that I have, occasionally catching ‘hair’ and could be painful.

Finally, I want to have the feeling of pre-teen age, when I do not have any of the hormone change, grown of hair on my face as well as pubic.  I remember one incident when my father explained the growth of pubic hair to me, badly.  He said, looked, I have pubic hair while we were in the public toilet, then expect me to understand why one would have grown some hair later in life.  Well, lucky for my parents, as I was not turning to Playboy nor Penthouse for answers, but health related media such as newspapers and magazines for some answers.  I did send in questions to some newspapers asking about sex, hormone changed etc.  So, I did it also to surprise my wife.  Well, she has yet to see it yet 🙂

I arrived at Strip: Ministry of Wax at 10:10am.  I first met the therapist for information such as what should I prepared, do before the waxing and also whether it would be painful.  Guess what, her name is Angel, like from heaven.  She greeted me with a big smile and I can tell you that I was in absolutely shy mode and also was thinking of turning back, like leaving the place.

Some background on Strip.  It has 27 stores in 9 cities – started in Singapore, then New York, london, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila and Kuala Lumpur.  With 8 years in existence, from its website, has pruned more than 2mil bushes, and counting still.  Unlike other waxing service provider, Strip provides less embarrassing Brazilian waxing in an elegant way.  The outlet that I went to in Bangsar is the same row as McDonald, just opposite the former MPH.

It has a very porch layout and design.  In some ways, the metal cage does remind me of Shakira.  I don’t know why, but could be her latest She Wolf MTV that I watched while running on the treadmill.  Then, Angel shown me the hygiene pack wax tool which would only be used once for the customer.  I asked Angel why so many spatulas in the pack, which looks like using them for ice cream.  She explained that Strip policy is to protect all its customers, the spatulas are used to dip and scope the wax to be applied on the skin.  So, once the spatula is dipped, scoped and applied on customer skin, it would be thrown away.  A spatula will then be used.  Anyway, throughout the waxing process, I did not look at all to avoid feeling the pain.

Actually some parts were slightly painful, but bearable.  Maybe male has lower pain threshold than female.  For example, don’t think male could give birth naturally.  Respect to all the Eves!

I was then brought into the therapy room.  It has very neatly arranged and layout wardrobe for the customer to put their belongings.  Angel then briefed me to take the wet wipe to clean the private parts, and then put on the towel, and wait for her to return.  I have been to many massages before, mostly by male but some by females, I have never been this nervous before in my life.  Other than my wife and my mother, don’t remember any one else that has seen me in nude.

First process was to trim the hair in order to make them slightly shorter, so would reduce any pain that could caused during the waxing.  Once done, Angel joked with me, “Are you ready?”

First, thick wax applied on the skin and leftover hair with the spatula, I felt slightly warming effect, before I could experience the warm further, Angel has started the first move on pulling the wax out.  I went, “Ouch.”  Angel replied, “Not painful right?”  Actually it was not that painful, compares to when I accidentally cut my face while shaving or when I bitten my lips while chewing the gum.

There Angel goes from parts to parts, until everything been waxed.  The process stop at 11:05am.  So, all together about 30 mins of curiosity fun in waxing.

I looked the ‘finishing’, I could only say, “Wow!  This is something I have never thought I would be able to do it in my life.”  Well, I have done it.  And, I believe many of my male friends could do it too.

For post wax care, I have advised not to have hot shower, sauna and doing any extreme exercises such as running, cycling etc.  Also to remember to apply some skin moisturiser, to sooth the skin.

By the way, in case you might ask what kind of waxing I have gone through, it is called Boyzillian 🙂

If you ask whether this is worth?

“Every single moment.”

Thanks Strip.