Waxing away that unwanted hair
OK gals, what's the only thing
worse than kissing a man with
five o'clock shadow?
Making love to a man when
you have the nubs You know —
down there
“Some women have a lot of
hair around here and they want
to get rid of it," says Jacqueline
Joseph, indicating her upper
thighs. "We call it the bikini
area You can imagine how
painful it would be making love
with whiskers down there For
get it.”
But there is an alternative
Joseph says she is the only
professional hair-removal
specialist in Eugene using the
new “non-conventional" tech
nique of removing hair with wax
False images could easily
leap to mind of those uninitiated
to the finer points of depilatory
wax — a leather-heavy lady
hovering sinisterly over a semi
willing victim, gleefully dripping
hot wax from a candle onto
various nether regions
Sorry folks, this isn't a rehash
of the Bloomingdale palimony
trial
The technique of removing
hair with wax has been around
quite a while and has gained
considerably more respect than
the aforementioned scenario
In addition, Joseph believes
than the new method she uses
reduces the pain factor to
almost nil for many people
The advantage of removing
hair by wax is that, ideally, it
pulls the hair out by the root,
which is based well beneath the
surface of the skin
It takes the hair a few weeks to
grow back again, so legs, un
derarms and bikini areas stay
smooth considerably longer
than when shaved
And when the hair does break
the surface, says Joseph, it is
not as coarse or as thick as
shaven hair
"Freedom from razors,” is the
biggest advantage, says Jo
seph "It's great
"No more irritated skin, no
more nubs Once they start with
Jacqueline Joseph uses a new technique to remove hair "less painfully," although the level of pain depends on the person
me, they never go back to
razors,” she notes
Previously, Joseph removed
hair by the ‘‘conventional'’
method, which involved pasting
the hot wax onto the skin with a
wooden spatula, adhering a fi
brous tape onto the wax and
then lifting the wax and pre
sumably the hair from the
surface of the skin
Ouch
The ‘‘unconventional”
procedure, which was released
onto the general market last
February by a California-based
company, first rolls the wax onto
a polypropylene band of tape It
is then applied to the skin and
immediately pulled off
"The advantage is that we re
able to put the wax on so fast
that it stays hot, and the warmth
keeps the hair shaft open," says
Joseph "The hair moves out
easier, and that's why it's less
painful."
Just how painful is "less
painful?"
"On a scale of one to ten7
That's hard to say," Joseph re
plies. "Every person has a dif
ferent threshold of pain Most of
the people I've worked with say
it has no rating Others say five,
or maybe eight But some peo
ple are babies "
In fact, one of the most com
mon questions prospective
clients ask Joseph is how much
it hurts
“All I can say is that I've tried
all the methods, and this is the
least painful. It just depends on
the person,'' she says
The most common request is
for hair removal below the
knees, which costs $20 and
takes from 20 to 40 minutes
Defoliating the armpits runs
$8. and the bikini area job goes
for $10
She has various other
packages available, but does
not remove hair above the
seventh vertebra That work
must be performed by a
licensed cosmetologist
Joseph, who also performs
nail-manicuring services, is
located above the Attic Dresser
at 350 East 11 th Avenue
She stresses that she takes
customers by appointment only,
and that all sessions are private
A full-body hair-removal job
would run about $250, Joseph
guesses, but she doesn't
provide that service for a simple
reason
"Honey," she mildly scolds a
reporter, "have you ever seen a
lady in Eugene that hairy?"
By Sean Meyers
Photo by Mark Pynes
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