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Bikini Line
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So, just booked our summer holidays, and thoughts are now on getting myself looking good enough to wear a bikini in 3 months time.
I don't mind shaving my legs on holiday, but the stubbly bikini line is sooo not a good look! Last year I tried waxing - never again!
I'm thinking of investing in one of these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remington-Confidence-BKT3000c-Cordless-Trimmer/dp/B000758DHU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=personal&qid=1206468221&sr=1-2
but are they really any better than a normal razor?
All the creams I've tried are just crap, it grows back straight away.
Also thinking about an epilator, I know they're painful but is it as bad as waxing? Anyone recommend one?
Thanks
I don't mind shaving my legs on holiday, but the stubbly bikini line is sooo not a good look! Last year I tried waxing - never again!
I'm thinking of investing in one of these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remington-Confidence-BKT3000c-Cordless-Trimmer/dp/B000758DHU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=personal&qid=1206468221&sr=1-2
but are they really any better than a normal razor?
All the creams I've tried are just crap, it grows back straight away.
Also thinking about an epilator, I know they're painful but is it as bad as waxing? Anyone recommend one?
Thanks
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I've tried using an epilator and tbh I wouldn't wish those devices on my worst enemy.
My best advice for the bikini line is to moisturise the areas you want to shave with your favourite body lotion first with some water mixed in, shave it with a disposable razor, then moisturise it again. This is how I do it and I think it's the least painless, quickest way that leaves you with minimal itching and ingrowing hairs.
Being a woman is a bitch sometimes.
Rofl the firefox spell checker just underlined 'epilator' and tried to replace it with 'mutilator'. Probably quite accurate
I always have wax on me after and then it sticks to my jeans and looks like I have blue varicose veins on my legs!!
Ohh...
I really should start to appreciate what girls are doing for us.
potw material, kangoo
hahaha! thats a cracker!
I think epilators on the bikini line are worse than waxing tbh. At least with waxing the pain is in one motion, like taking off a band-aid - wham! It hurts like a bitch but only once, and for a short period of time.
I hate bikini line hair... I'd love to remove it permantently tbh.
I'm so glad to see this thread, thought I was the only one who has yet to find a good method of getting rid of it. I've tried shaving, waxing and depilatory cream and found waxing the best, but nothing works that well. I'd love to get that light treatment on it (not lasering cos apparently that really hurts) but it's just so expensive.
You are the girl equivalent of Chuck Norris. I salute you.
:sour:
:thumb: I'll take that as a compliment. I think.
:nervous: Awww!!!!!!!!!
well that puts me off that one :yuck:
how about these bikini trimmers i've linked in my op, anyone used them? got a voucher for amazon but if they're not very good i'm just gonna get a decent razor instead i think
p.s to the OP, i used those trimmers, they just made it the same for me as shaving with a normal razor, you don't really get a fine close trim and it caused me stubble rash.
You need to find a new beauty therapist!
If you have never had a wax done though, I'd recommend you have one done at a salon instead of epilating yourself. Epilating does hurt, and if you haven't tried waxing before then I can see you being put off. I only moved onto epilating after I found waxing to be too messy and impractical.
The skin might be a bit sensitive for a day or so afterwards - go two days before the holiday I reckon
You shouldn't sunbathe for a couple of days after the wax so I would definately say a few days before the holiday - this will also give time for the skin to calm down if it has become a bit irritated.