The way we apply the sugar paste – it kind of seeps into the hair follicle, wraps around
the hair, and then it pulls it out.
The craft is always being perfected.
It’s like an art of hair removal.
My name is Page Ellson and I’m gonna get sugared today.
Since I was a gymnast I was in a leotard all the time.
I think I was about 9 when someone pointed out my leg hair and I was like, “Mom
do I need to start shaving?”
And she was like, “No you’re just a little girl, stop.”
And I was like, “Mom, I need to remove my hair.”
I think I started shaving my legs when I was 10.
It took me a while to learn how to do it.
Getting a cut on your ankle is the worst kind of razor cut to get.
What I know about Sugaring - I know it’s…
I feel like I’ve heard it’s more natural and you have longer lasting results of your
hair removal.
My name is Danielle and I am the owner of Sugaring LA.
I started sugaring about 13 years ago.
I had terrible skin and I was trying to find different natural ways to heal myself and
my skin.
It led me into beauty school and how I can take care of it from the inside-out.
But then I also learned this great art of Sugaring hair removal that I just fell in
love with.
At Sugaring LA, I think we’re 6 years later, and we have 5 Sugaring salons along the west
coast.
It’s really exciting to see how quickly it’s grown and how well people really took
to it.
Yeah I’ve had bad waxing experiences before.
Where they ripped off my skin a little bit.
And so I’d have weird strip marks on my forehead.
That happened one time and I was like, “Mmm no.”
We get a lot of clients that come and see us coming from waxing or shaving, and having
to shave your skin everyday.
Getting that irritation from the constant friction.
You can get really bad razor burn if you try to shave everyday and the ingrown hairs that
you can get with shaving are terrible.
Waxing half the time it just breaks your hair or the hyper pigmentation you can get from
repeatedly waxing your skin and pulling on the skin.
Epilators kind of pull your hair out in every direction and then it’s gonna start deforming
your hair follicle.
With Nair it’s like using Drano on your skin.
It just kind of burns down into the hair follicle as far as it decides to go so you’re not
actually going to pull it out and get the results.
Laser, you know… the last letter in laser is “R” for radiation.
Plucking is going to take you a really long time.
You’re always going to have hair because you’re always puling them out at different
times.
We don’t use any sticks, or strips, and no double dips.
Our signature paste is made of lemon, lemon is our natural preservative.
Sugar, sugar is a natural healer.
And then water.
And they’re all organic ingredients.
It’s literally just a gloved hand and one ball.
So we have a ball, and this one ball is your ball and your ball only.
We apply it against the hair growth,
and it seeps into the follicle, wraps around the
hair,
and then as we flick, it’s removing the hair in the natural direction.
Because you’re a shaver, your hair isn’t weakened or thinner and finer yet.
But because she has thicker skin, dead skin cells, and she’s been shaving.
I get a lot the first time but then I’m loosening it as I’m flicking and I got to
go back over.
And so it starts to turn this color because it picks up all the dead skin cells and all
the hair.
We’re able to kind of go over the area a few times because it’s just exfoliating
the dead skin cells.
So it’s very thorough.
We don’t miss a hair.
Just the quality of my skin looks better.
She took off a lot of dead skin cells and told me how to exfoliate and stuff so my skin
on my legs looks better in general.
So the sugaring felt similar to waxing but I actually thought it was a little less painful.
Probably because it’s not hot.
I definitely want to go back when the hair starts growing back because I want to keep that.
And I can just tell my skin is already really happy about it so I definitely want to start
transitioning into Sugaring.
It was a peaceful process and it was nice.
It’s kind of an emotional release, you know, for them who have been holding this stuff
that really gives them body image issues and to be able to free people of those is great.
And that’s some of the favorite parts of what I do and why I Sugar.
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