Due to lockdown I thought I’d try to wax my bikini line myself. I had read all the reviews of this product, and having been to the salons for years for a bikini wax, thought I knew what I was doing. Wrong! I read the instructions thoroughly and prepared a bed of newspaper. I put the wax in the microwave for 60 seconds, but it was hard as a rock! Then another 60 seconds, nothing! But I noticed that the microwave plate was getting very hot, so I put a saucer under the wax pot. Another 30 seconds and the saucer started getting hot. The wax just started getting a little soft. Another 30 seconds, the saucer is now too hot to touch and the wax is finally starting to melt. It took another 2 minutes for the wax to melt, so 5 minutes instead of 1, and the microwave was burning hot! There is nothing wrong with my microwave by the way as I use it quite a bit and normally it cooks to time. Disaster number one. I stirred the wax thoroughly as stated and the temperature was fine, in fact still not that hot. The wooden spatula is much thinner than the ones you see in beauticians, so you can’t apply that much at a time, and if you’ve never done it before it takes a while to become proficient, so I had a go a few times a creating a swirl at the end to grab hold of as instructed (something beauticians don’t have to worry about as they are using strips). As I became more proficient I tried longer strips, but I could never match up where I had been before due to the uneven nature of the wax. Leaving the wax the right amount of time before removing is also a difficult task, as I hadn’t put it on evenly all the way through, so it had dried at a different rate. I know it was my fault for doing this, but it shows that it is not easy for beginners to get it right. Maybe with practice it would get better, but in future I’m looking for something easier like strips, with the right amount of wax already on them. I will say that when it worked, it worked, i.e. it did remove the hair and it didn’t hurt me at all (but then I am used to being waxed in this area), but when bits of wax drip off the spatula over your pubes, or you can’t get the swirl at the end to grab hold of, or your hand are so covered in bits of wax that it becomes hard to even hold the spatula any longer, it’s all a bit of a disaster (number two). You finish up with a calming oil wipe. I mainly used this to get the scraps of wax out of my pubes and off my fingers. But it was at this point that I also noticed the nasty bruising coming up! I have no idea what it was from as I never bruise from waxing, and I have tried other home waxing strips before and not had this. Disaster number three. So would I recommend Nad's Brazilian & Bikini Kit, I’m afraid not. But that’s not to say that it won’t work for some.
