Gigi Hard Wax and Warmer: my adventure with at-home bikini waxing

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I’ve had the GiGi Professional Brazilian Waxing Kit* for two years and it’s served me well. If only I had the guts to use it to do my own bikini wax. Mine came with a Wax Warmer With Cover, 14 oz. Brazilian Body Hard Wax, 2 oz. Pre-Epilation Oil, 2oz. Post Wax Cooling Gel, 10 Large Accu Edge Applicators, 10 Small Accu Edge Applicators, 10 Petite Applicators and 1 Brazilian Waxing Instructional DVD.

After my very first and HORRIBLE bikini wax experience in Las Vegas, I did not venture to another wax specialist again for a long, long time. Then, I had this BRILLIANT thought that maybe I should do it at home because when you have a crappy experience with a licensed esthetician, then you should have a better experience at home with no expertise whatsoever, right? Right? Yea, that was stupid but, I have to say, I am still happy with my purchase to this day.

Having your own wax warmer is pretty awesome. It was nice being able to sit back and just dip and apply, dip and apply, rip-rip, cry, sit back, breathe deeply, dip and apply; and not make frequent trips to the microwave. It was especially nice for me the first time around because I was taking FOREVER to rip out a section of wax at a time.

I think I went through fifteen episodes of Jericho during my first at-home bikini wax session. I also finished off a bottle of wine. I was drunk and in sheer and utter pain, feeling like I was slowly peeling off my skin in clusters. I also distinctly remember a moment where I was crawling around with just a shirt on, moaning in pain and drunken stupor. I don’t know WHY I was crawling around bare-assed. Maybe I had to pee. I also recall my boyfriend looking at me with much concern, wondering why I was inflicting pain on myself when nobody who’d ever see my cooch could care less how much hair it had. With all that time and trauma gone by, you would have thought I’d given myself a complete brazilian but it had taken me that long just to give myself a standard bikini.

When it all grew back, I dreaded my second session. This time, like a proper lady *snort*, I retreated to the privacy of the bedroom. Much to my surprised, there was no pain in the areas where I had previously used the wax. It only hurt where I had gone closer in.

However, I was too much of a wimp and a lazy ass to do it again. I went back to trimming and didn’t let the wax go near my pelvis for the following two years.

In the meantime, however, I have been using the wax kit to groom my brows and upper lip. It is seriously the best thing I’ve used for facial epilation. The convenience and ease of the wax warmer and a wax that completely hardens makes this a perfect at-home system. There is no dealing with cloth strips as you simply wait a few seconds for the wax to harden and just pull the wax itself. Even when I pull slowly (because I’m such a masochist and I want to savor the pain?), the hair is trapped so well in the wax that it uproots quite easily. There is no sticky residue and any remaining wax can be simply rubbed off. Using the pre-epilation oil also helps to keep your skin protected.

Maybe it’s because I’ve only been using it for the face but I have yet to use up any of the products in the kit. Not bad for fifty bucks!

As for waxing my privates at home, that’s going to take some courage… and maybe stronger wine.