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So this is what I prepared for you earlier
Hey guys
It's Wengie here, welcome back to my channel and today is another episode of DIY or BUY
where I compare DIYs with their store-bought counterparts to see which one is better, and whether the DIY is actually worth doing
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There are two versions of this recipe. Start with the hard wax
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You'll need two cups of sugar, a quarter cup of lemon juice, and a quarter cup of water. Combine all these in a pot
and bring it to a boil
It's starting to get like a bit thicker. It smells sooo good, like lemon meringue pie.
Turn down the heat and keep boiling
Lightly for seven minutes or until it reaches a caramel color
Wait until it's like super thick and I can like pull off my hair. Yeah, I really don't feel nice anymore.
This is the store-bought one
And this is the one we've made look at it starting to look pretty similar
Pour it all in a jar and let it cool down
Make sure your jar is glass, hot as well. Cool glass will crack due to the temperature difference
Place it out to cool down because we don't want to burn ourselves
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I'm really excited! We're gonna be testing the hard wax. Mia's with me
"wanna help me?"
I have really high hopes for this DIY, one, because everyone's been raving about it
so, it's hot but like
Can you see that?
It's malleable, like Play-doh, so that's kind of what you want to do, you want to like mold it
Keep in mind it does get hotter than what it feels like when you touch it initially because inside it could be hot
so be careful. Okay, so
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Like this, and you smooth it on til it's stuck. DIY failed.
We're gonna go. not gonna burn x2. Oh, it's quite hot x2
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Okay, yep feels like I'm putting Molten Lava my leg
It's gonna work. It's gonna work? It's gonna work. M'kay
It's quite hot. It's hot, right?
It's quite hot, but it's bearable
oh I can feel it, owww
It just came off when I did this
Okay, well pull, pull it pull it. Okay well that was how much hair there was I don't want it, I don't want to do it
Oh my god
Ready? Yeah.
Aaaannddd, three to one ahhh, oh
It took some off. If you look at it from the side, it's like, not that much
Okay, let's compare it to the strip free wax. This one here, this is the strip free wax this is the spot
That the other wax
Okay, guys this is so much more comfortable, like it's not burning. Ah, it's like heaven
It's like heaven! Oh my gosh!
I am
Pain-free right now. Seriously the burning hurts just as much as when you pull off the wax strip
It was horrible! I probably put it on the wrong way because I got really excited
whatever, let's pull in the opposite direction of hair growth
Ready, and.... oh look there's hair, it did not hurt that much. It's not like super clean better than the toffee
I'm using one cup of sugar instead of two
a quarter cup of lemon juice and a quarter cup of water. Combine again and boil until it's a caramelized,
golden brown color. It's so crazy, one minute I looked at it
and it was yellow, and next minute I look at it and it's brown. Pour it into the jar to cool down
So I'm gonna go in
What do you think of this? It's quite burning
No, pain a gain. Let's pull this, ready....
I'm just gonna pull this off
It pulled one hair
Oh, two, it pulled two hairs. Oh no, I see three hairs
I wouldn't say it was the cleanest. Here's the store bought version
Looks like the same-ish consistency let's go with this
Oh my god it's not burning, it is not burning
We have non burning wax! Let's put this strip on
and hopefully unlike the DIY one, it's actually going to stick to the wax strip, instead of like...
Ready... oh it's so painful, set...
Oh look at that.
It actually removed hair
Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. We've got some hair removal here!
I'm gonna give the DIY soft wax just one more chance
so, against the.... OWW
[sobbing] don't do it guys
Don't do it, it's so painful. I got this much on
let's see if it like, sticks
I feel like I'm being tortured. If you guys need a form of torture, just throw this at whoever. Ready, and... ahh
Well at least it stuck, at least is stuck to the thing. And the difference in consistency, so this gets really hard
And this is like more soft, and it stays soft
So that's probably why it pulls off a little bit easier, whereas with the DIY
wax if you wait like, too long or too little for it,
It's just not gonna work. That window is when it frickin burns your skin. Today is not my day, it's not working for me
Maybe I'm just really bad at making DIYs. Ah, It's so painful. So I hope you guys enjoyed seeing me like, torture myself,
because that's pretty much what today was. Spend $10, and just go buy it from the store
I feel like I've got toffee all over my hands, on my bed, in my jars, huge mess... so yeah,
that's pretty much it. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode, and I'll see you guys next time. Bye!
It has been in water for 24 hours, we've been trying to clean it. Look,
It's magic. It's like the sword in the stone. Whoever can lift this up
SHALL BE KING!!!