- Out of reflex I just punched her.
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So I've only gotten waxed, like bikini waxed
or Brazilian or whatever I only got that twice.
And both times were a nightmare.
(screaming)
So the first time it was before I had a full-time job
and I didn't have a lot of money,
but I was like, I'm gonna treat myself to a bare (bleep).
I just went to the cheapest place I could find
and they were like, take off your pants and your underwear.
And I was like, okay I never do this.
I said bikini wax, but they took all of it,
they took everything.
I was bleeding, is that normal?
I was bleeding from the hair follicle holes.
(laughing)
Fast forward a few years later, I was like,
alright I'm gonna take care of some things.
So I go to get waxed, it was overall a fine experience
except for this one moment when the woman who was waxing me;
this is the wax, and she goes to pull it,
so she goes three, two, and then she does this,
but she drops it and then quick picks it back up
so I gotta (grunting), out of reflex I just punched her,
but she grabbed my hand and caught it so quickly,
like this has happened before.
(Bleep) it, I'm not doing (bleep)
until I can afford laser hair removal.
- As an Indian person I am hairier than most,
so I was getting my eyebrows done at 12,
my upper lip done at 12, and then I started noticing
that my face had peach fuzz on it and it was black.
So I started getting my face waxed.
And it was fine for the first several years of my life
when I started that ritual, and three years ago
my eyebrow lady is waxing my face,
I started feeling this burning sensation
right up on my cheekbones and I didn't think
much about it 'til I sat up and looked at my face.
There were stripes on my face, like my skin was torn off.
The next day when I woke up it was dark red and brown.
It was like scabs on my face, I looked like Freddy Krueger.
(screaming)
I was so embarrassed that I went to these lengths
to remove my peach fuzz and I never did it again
and now I use a tinkle razor whenever I feel
like it's getting super excessive.
- When I was 17 I was doing a photo shoot
for an upcoming dance recital.
For the photo shoot I had to get in full costume
and full makeup because they were gonna use these photos
in the programs.
The teacher and my mom told me that I had to get
all the hair out of my face, like removed.
I don't know why, I guess it was because
the photos were gonna be hi-def?
I don't know.
The day of the photo shoot my mom takes me to the salon
and she was like, okay we're gonna do a full face wax.
And this was an hour before the photo shoot or something
so there was no time.
She's doing it, ripping what feels like my face off.
When it was done my face was really red
and splotchy, and swollen, and I was like,
why do I look like this?
And the people were like, oh it'll go down
in 15 minutes, just relax.
And so we go to my dance teacher's house
where the photo shoot was, and she's like,
why do you look like that?
I got my full face waxed for this photo shoot,
for you, because you all told me to.
I get fully costumed and fully made up,
but my swelling and redness will not go away.
And they're taking the photos and they're like,
yeah okay, I guess it looks good.
A couple weeks later we got the photos back
and they were unusable.
I looked like a puffy red monsters.
And my mom was like, we cannot put these
permanently into a program for your dance recital.
Weeks later we had to redo the whole photo shoot.
- I got married in April of this year,
my ceremony for my wedding was on a boat,
and I was wearing a bathing suit, like a white bathing suit.
A month before I was getting married
I had basically woken up one morning
with a rash on my legs, I didn't know what it was.
When I went to go get married they still weren't
positive what it was, I've since been diagnosed
with something called vasculitis.
It's where you're blood vessels get inflamed.
I knew that this thing was happening on my legs,
but it'd only been below the knee
so I hadn't even thought about it.
So I go to this place and get sugared,
which is really similar to wax,
but it's supposed to be more natural,
so I got my armpits done and then I got my, a Brazilian.
And then I looked down and on the sides
it was really red, and I was like, uh what?
All of the blood vessels, like everywhere,
had popped and it was just bright red, fire truck red.
Like it wasn't just like, oh like a light pink,
it was bright red, and I was getting married
six days later on a boat, in a white bathing suit
in front of 82 people.
So I freaked out.
(screaming)
But I had this lotion that the doctor had given me
that was supposed to kinda help with things
so I just put that on multiple times a day,
by that Wednesday it was pretty much gone.
Thank god I didn't have a bright red vagina for my wedding.
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