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I wax all but a small landing strip. Shaving gives me too much irritation/bumps.
I hear Tendskin works great for ingrowns. You can make your own with ground up aspirin, water, alcohol and witch hazel. There might be other "recipes" out there for it, but the general idea is it exfoliates your skin to prevent the ingrowns from starting.
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ingrowns happen with shaving too, only, on me at least, they're a hell of a lot worse. get some needletip tweezers for removing the ones that do happen. exfoliate and apply witch hazel before hand, and after the waxing, and take a hot bath before removing ingrown hairs.
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I shave because when you wax you have to wait for the hairs to grow back before you can get a close wax and i dont want to go to work and ppl can see my hair :P
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I vote for lasering, but waxing is my second-favorite method of depilation. The problem is that you must let the hair grow out to a certain length before you can re-wax.
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I shave it all off, cause waxing scares me, lol. I find Aveeno positively smooth shaving cream, a good razor and exfoliating beforehand work very well. I get almost no ingrown hairs. It also takes your skin a little while to get used to shaving regularly. Once it does, you'll get fewer ingrown hairs.
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Here is a link to the TendSkin company. You can read about their products. The liquid is what is supposed to take care of the ingrowns.
http://www.tendskin.com/tendskin.htm
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mimi i love your blog! (i'm a freelancer too). tendskin works great. i waxed a few times but i cant deal with the pain. it literally makes me cry. shaving is cheaper too.
on the topic of shaving - paige d'winter said that she shaved with olive oil on another thread. i tried it and it was awesome. i didn't do it for shaving my 'nether region' but for legs and armpits it was great. (makes the shower slippery so watch out)
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Waxing made me cry too, I'm such a wimp! I just use a good razor and shaving gel for sensitive skin. Then apply deodorant over the shaved areas.
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i love waxing precisely because you have to wait for some hair growth to repeat it, so you get the spectrum ranging from smooth and hairless to 'well-trimmed' naturalness. one club, not being waxed/shaven cost me stage money; at another, it had no effect. both were nude clubs. in both cases my lapdance money was unaffected.
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Wax all the way! Do my own braz. and all else. Threw away the razor (mac 3 was the best tho) and will never go back. First few times I went to an esthetician, but then started doing it myself. I work at a nude no contact club, btw. Clubs have lighting that hides a lot, hair grows in stages (so doesn't show all at once stubbly like after shaving), and waxed hair is tapered, soft and lighter, so I just touch it up every 2 weeks, but still no one can see it, and I do it as often only cuz I feel it and personally like baby smoothness. It hurt at first, but now I feel no pain at all and even kinda like it. Besides, the more you do it the more you weaken the follicle and hair gets softer and lighter with each time. I just use scrubs and BHA daily and pluck the strays. No ingrowns. Tweezerman makes this great needlepoint tweezer tho, and I keep in on hand just in case. Shaving was ok only if I was working every other day. Could never shave daily (down there) without an irritation no matter what I did. Plus when I traveled and someplaces barely had hot water, shaving was a nightmare.
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I shave, leaving a landing strip (they like seeing that I'm a natural blonde, LOL!). I don't have any problems with ingrown hairs. I used to get razor bumps but that stopped as soon as I started applying lotion and deodorant (in that order) to the bikini area right after shaving.
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I hate it when I have to pick out ingrown hairs with a pin. You know, the 1/2 inch ingrown hairs that you can see growing under your skin.
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Whether you wax or shave, it's important to exfoliate in between whenever you shower to help prevent ingrowns. A loofah works well.
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OK the label warns against it, but according to famous New Orleans stripping legend Gio, Nair (with Coca Butter version) is a good hair remover for the crotch. BUT obviously you keep it far from the delicate pink bits.
I shave & use the frequent close-contact opportunties to inspect for All's Clear in MuffinVille...gotta be health-aware!
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I read on here to try an electric shaver and put deodorant over my cooch afterwards and its worked better then anything else ive ever tried. I wish id learned about this trick years ago...could have prevented the razor bump marks!
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i shave pretty much every day.....wouldn't be able to stand the wait-time inbetween waxing sessions. i've been doing it so long that it's second nature, and doesn't bother me in the least. i do use lotion or babyoil everywhere to keep skin smooth after shaving too
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i also shave my cookie...but not because of stripping. boys hate getting hair in their mouths. :P
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er.... deodrant???? does this not sting like hell??? what is the benefit of applying this to your area - is it spray or roll on :O
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Havn't read this thread all the way thru however I wanted to say: WAX
All I have ever worked within are nude clubs. Then again, I'm lucky. I've been a consistant (enough) waxer since I was 12 years of age... I'm now 27. It's mainly the hair on the top (what I call the pubic hair not underneath near my 'lips') that requires upkeep. I can get away with regrowth down below for much longer (it's finer).
As for ingrowns, they happen regardless. I keep on top of them due to having a habit of always checking 'down there' when I'm on the loo :laughing: and I know I'm not the only one.
Plus I do pluck since my hair is so weak now ;D
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This deoderant thing...is that solid or the wet kind? I imagine the wet kind would make it worse. I have no idea, but I think using a new disposable razor each time works best.
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oooo I just shaved mine... the full monty and it feels lovely it looks neat and purty too...
Hehe!
Only thing is it looks very porno now hehehee
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I wax also, and usually don't have problems but for some reason I have 2 nasty ingrown hairs this time >:( Shaving gives me horrible razor burn. I might have to break down and buy or make some Tendskin. >:( >:(
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I love to wax - I love how it feels so smooth, but I can't let it grow out to that waxable length when working, so i just shave every other day. Of course, now, while preggors, I'm scared to even look down there - it's getting hard to shave around this belly!!
And I used deoderant when dancing also - it just keeps the perspiration from clogging up pores down there. Anyway for me it helped because I'd even get little pimple things down there every so often. i just had a can of aerosal deoderant so I could spray my bikin line very lightly and then the bottom of my feet.