COLD WAX KIT

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids.
I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: ‘Maybe
I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet.’
So I headed 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 your hand, they get warm
and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you 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. Its two strips facing each other stuck together.
Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat
it to 1000 degrees. (‘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. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the
bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one
foot on the toilet.
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 ……RRRIIIIPPPP!!!!!!!
I’m blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!……OOUUUCCHHH!!!!!!!
Vision returning, I notice that I’ve only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP!!!!
Another deep breath and RIPP!! Everything is spinning and spotted.
I think I may pass out…must stay conscious…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’s the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX????
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 am 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? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.
Sealed shut! My butt 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 get the urge
to poop, my head may pop off!’ What can I do to melt the wax?
Hot water!!! Hot water melts wax!! I’ll run the hottest water I can stand into the
bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently
wipe it off, right???
WRONG!!!!
I get in the tub- the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of
war or sterilize surgical equipment – 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,
by the way, doesn’t melt the cold wax.
So, now I’m stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the
porcelain!!!
God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the
bathroom!!!!!!
I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get
me undone. It’s a very good conversation starter ‘So, my butt 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, in-between 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 the brain is not
working, dignity has taken a major hike and I’m pretty sure I’m going to need Post-Traumatic
Stress counseling 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 and OH MY GOSH!!!!!! The
scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It’s soooo painful,
but I really don’t care. ‘IT WORKS!!!!’
It works! I get a hearty congratulations 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
HERE….ALL OF IT!!!!!
So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I’m numb by now. Nothing hurts.
I could have amputated my own leg at this point.
Next week I’m going to try hair color……..