Question:
Argh, ingrowing hairs from bikini wax
I get my bikini line wax every 3 weeks and recently I've started getting really bad ingrowing hairs down there from about the 3rd day after my wax up until I get it done again.
Its really annoying me as I dont understand why I'm getting them. I gently exfoliate down there before a wax and use the creams that are meant to prevant ingrowing hairs, but I still keep getting them :(
Any ideas what I can use to stop me from getting them! They are rather unsightly! :lol:
Thanks, PL x
Hi Pink Lady,
I used to get these, and unfortunately for me they just got worse and worse. It got to the point where my beautician (who I have gone to for years) actually said it looked so bad that I should stop getting it waxed. So I gave it a break for a few months and just shaved for a while. Exfoliated loads and applied sudocrem after I shaved. I let them all heal. Once they healed I started doing a combination of waxing and shaving.
I like the Brazilian style. And I found that most of my ingrown hairs where around the top area and around the sides of the erm entrance (sorry sounds a bit crude). I never tended to get ingrowns in the more initimate area (the lips and back part). So I only got tehm in the standard bikini area – not sure if you are the same?
So what I now do is shave the bikini line and get my beautician to wax the more intimate part so I end up with a brazilian. I shave once a week and have a wax around every 5 weeks. This really has worked a treat and I have a normal looking bikini line now. Not once covered in a mas of ingrown hairs that just looked like big red spots!
I really hope that helps, as I know how awful it is to suffer from them.
Lamby x x
I started getting ingrown hairs so badly that I stopped waxing. I tried lots to prevent them but nothing worked.
I also do a similar thing to Tooting Lamby and I shave the underneath part and pluck the sides (I pluck in the bath and once you get used to doing it, it takes no time) and this way I get far less ingrown hairs than with a wax.
It shouldn't be so difficult for one to tend to one's muff! But unfortunately it's bloody hard being female!!
yuk! i have jut developed the WORST ingrown hair i have ever seen on my bikini line near the top - it's practically the size of a pea :boohoo:
HOW can i best get rid of it?! i'm seeing my bloke next weekend and want it gone without a trace! (the last one of these i had i waited for it to go away on its own which took like two weeks, and then it scarred for three weeks! yuk!)
also - any general tips on avoiding them in the first place - or getting them when you first notice one developing, would be relly appreciated!
xxx
well i would pluck the hair out and clean it out, then bathe it in salt water to anti-septic the area and dry it up as long as u keep dabbing salt water on it it will dry up quickly and then use aloe vera gel to help heal the skin etc
i have used dalacin t in the past but crushed asprin mixed with a bit of water to form a paste is a good exfoliator to use - the main ingredient of asiprin is used is most of the ingrown hair products - salicylic acid
forgot to say i get the tweezers out the moment one starts to form and then use dalacin t and that stops it in its track - but the regualr aspirin exfoliator (must be non-coated aspirin) along with salt water as soon as they appear should also help prevent and increase healing time!
I get my bikini line wax every 3 weeks and recently I've started getting really bad ingrowing hairs down there from about the 3rd day after my wax up until I get it done again.
Its really annoying me as I dont understand why I'm getting them. I gently exfoliate down there before a wax and use the creams that are meant to prevant ingrowing hairs, but I still keep getting them :(
Any ideas what I can use to stop me from getting them! They are rather unsightly! :lol:
Thanks, PL x
Answers:
Hi Pink Lady,
I used to get these, and unfortunately for me they just got worse and worse. It got to the point where my beautician (who I have gone to for years) actually said it looked so bad that I should stop getting it waxed. So I gave it a break for a few months and just shaved for a while. Exfoliated loads and applied sudocrem after I shaved. I let them all heal. Once they healed I started doing a combination of waxing and shaving.
I like the Brazilian style. And I found that most of my ingrown hairs where around the top area and around the sides of the erm entrance (sorry sounds a bit crude). I never tended to get ingrowns in the more initimate area (the lips and back part). So I only got tehm in the standard bikini area – not sure if you are the same?
So what I now do is shave the bikini line and get my beautician to wax the more intimate part so I end up with a brazilian. I shave once a week and have a wax around every 5 weeks. This really has worked a treat and I have a normal looking bikini line now. Not once covered in a mas of ingrown hairs that just looked like big red spots!
I really hope that helps, as I know how awful it is to suffer from them.
Lamby x x
Answers:
I started getting ingrown hairs so badly that I stopped waxing. I tried lots to prevent them but nothing worked.
I also do a similar thing to Tooting Lamby and I shave the underneath part and pluck the sides (I pluck in the bath and once you get used to doing it, it takes no time) and this way I get far less ingrown hairs than with a wax.
It shouldn't be so difficult for one to tend to one's muff! But unfortunately it's bloody hard being female!!
Answers:
yuk! i have jut developed the WORST ingrown hair i have ever seen on my bikini line near the top - it's practically the size of a pea :boohoo:
HOW can i best get rid of it?! i'm seeing my bloke next weekend and want it gone without a trace! (the last one of these i had i waited for it to go away on its own which took like two weeks, and then it scarred for three weeks! yuk!)
also - any general tips on avoiding them in the first place - or getting them when you first notice one developing, would be relly appreciated!
xxx
Answers:
well i would pluck the hair out and clean it out, then bathe it in salt water to anti-septic the area and dry it up as long as u keep dabbing salt water on it it will dry up quickly and then use aloe vera gel to help heal the skin etc
i have used dalacin t in the past but crushed asprin mixed with a bit of water to form a paste is a good exfoliator to use - the main ingredient of asiprin is used is most of the ingrown hair products - salicylic acid
forgot to say i get the tweezers out the moment one starts to form and then use dalacin t and that stops it in its track - but the regualr aspirin exfoliator (must be non-coated aspirin) along with salt water as soon as they appear should also help prevent and increase healing time!