waxing bikini area

[Anonymous]

How often to you have your bikini area waxed? How do you handle the transition period to grow enough hair to have waxing done again? These questions are geared to summer when one is wearing a bathing suit regularly but I’ll take answers for any time of year.

Also, I’d appreciate tips on how to handle ingrown hairs along the bikini line - as I’m aging I seem to get ingrown hairs semi-regularly post-waxing.

[Anonymous]

Laser.

[Anonymous]

Laser is good (I've done it twice) but to actually provide a helpful response...

1. I do waxing at the beginning of summer and maintain with a bit of shaving. Sometimes I pluck individual hairs. Sometimes you have a wax scheduled at end of week and you just need a bottom with more coverage or shorts so you don't shave.

2. For the ingrown hairs, you need to exfoliate. Vigorously.

3. For period, my waxer is a close friend and she's mentioned/offered that she has regularaly waxed with a tampon string (you tuck it away obviously). But that's too much for me and asking too much of her. Some people just do whatever! But I suppose that's a possibility. For me I'm really sensitive at that time and would not want to endure a wax.

[Anonymous]

Laser too (it doesn’t cost that much more than waxing when you consider how long it lasts, and it hurts wayyyy less)

[Anonymous]

Never. I shave every other day. I could never deal with the growing out. Laser is also popular.

[Anonymous]

I use a home IPL from Braun. It’s awesome.

[Anonymous]

Laser only reduces the hair growth.

I have been consistently every 4-5 weeks with no shaving in between for almost two years. It’s so thin now that I can go this long between waxes. I exfoliate a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Laser is good (I've done it twice) but to actually provide a helpful response...

1. I do waxing at the beginning of summer and maintain with a bit of shaving. Sometimes I pluck individual hairs. Sometimes you have a wax scheduled at end of week and you just need a bottom with more coverage or shorts so you don't shave.

2. For the ingrown hairs, you need to exfoliate. Vigorously.

3. For period, my waxer is a close friend and she's mentioned/offered that she has regularaly waxed with a tampon string (you tuck it away obviously). But that's too much for me and asking too much of her. Some people just do whatever! But I suppose that's a possibility. For me I'm really sensitive at that time and would not want to endure a wax.

These are great tips! Thank you from OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Laser only reduces the hair growth.

I have been consistently every 4-5 weeks with no shaving in between for almost two years. It’s so thin now that I can go this long between waxes. I exfoliate a lot.

This is OP. Interesting, my body situation is different in that I don’t think I have enough growth only 4 weeks out, but on the other hand the hair is dark and thick when it comes in. Thanks for replying!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Laser only reduces the hair growth.

I have been consistently every 4-5 weeks with no shaving in between for almost two years. It’s so thin now that I can go this long between waxes. I exfoliate a lot.

what do you do to exfoliate? use a grainy scrub and loofah?

[Anonymous]

I use veet and rarely have ingrown hairs.

[Anonymous]

Tend Skin for ingrown hairs… it’s the only thing that actually works.

[Anonymous]

erm...it's 2025. Everyone is lasered. It's super affordable too. No one is wasting time with wax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Laser only reduces the hair growth.

I have been consistently every 4-5 weeks with no shaving in between for almost two years. It’s so thin now that I can go this long between waxes. I exfoliate a lot.

what do you do to exfoliate? use a grainy scrub and loofah?

A grainy bath sponge type thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:erm...it's 2025. Everyone is lasered. It's super affordable too. No one is wasting time with wax.

Not helpful. I'm the PP who has been lasered twice (once before kids and then after kids). A wax at the beginning of summer or periodically for vacations, etc. is still amazing. As someone noted, laser never gets rid of aLL hair. If you have one that has, name them here because that would be a laser breakthrough.