Transformation of Le Hairy Gorilla

NOTE : NOT AN ADVERTORIAL

Hey all!

Ever since I turned 15, I'd been self-conscious of my body hair, even more so as I was in a predominantly Chinese-populated town where the girls had smooth skin and flawless faces, besides the occasional pimple. I stuck out with my hairy legs and arms. Curly curly somemore!!! Damn ugly arh last time I kept wearing long pants to cover up.

Then in an act of desperation I resorted to SHAVING! WTF I wish I hadn't. I was so happy with my smooth, hairless legs! I could actually see my skintone! But then it started growing and it was OMFG itchy and irritated and became painful when I scratched. I turned to moisturizing lotions to save my cracked, scaly skin, but to no avail.

Then le wild TVC appeared,

...le life-saving TVC..

It was Veet! 

Imagine the how the lure of the promise of hairless skin was for a young teenage girl desperate for some form of depilatory action!

So I started pinching pennies from my school lunch money, saving up to buy a kit of Veet Hair Removal Cream. And when I got it.....

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!
(YES, I KNOW THE WRITING IS GIBBERISH TO YOU. IT IS FOR ME TOO! MAYBE SPANISH IDK :p)

LE SMOOTH HAIRLESS LEGS, FINALLY!!!

I was finally liberated from sweating in long pants and sleeves!!! Shorts and tees begin filling my closet. Confidence emanated from my every pore!

You may be thinking, "Defug is this bitch making such a big deal of? It's just hair!". Those who were, FUCK OFF!! Yes I make such a big deal out of this because I was insecure about my body hair. I perceived it as ugly and absolutely embarrassing so STFU if you don't want to hear me talk about this!

So anyway, I used the cream for a while on my legs and underarms and it was absolutely LOVE!!! So easy to use and all, but I wanted a more permanent form of hair removal so I graduated to...

....yep...WAX STRIPS!!!

I was absolutely terrified + super excited because I'd never tried anything like it before, and everyone kept saying that it was painful! But then, no pain, no gain, right? So I was like #challengeaccepted and went with it.

 Middle of the night, in my room with the door locked and a pillow ready for clamping over my mouth lest I scream, I started to wax. And wax I did. At first I expected a lot of pain so I read and reread the instructions and pasted the first wax strip on my leg. Then, singing some random song, I rubbed and pulled, and VOILA!!! Perfectly smooth, hairless rectangular patch on my leg LOL. And I had no idea my skin was that color! The pain wasn't stinging so I decided that I could stand it and thus proceeded to do both legs. And let me tell you this, LEFT LEG DAMN PAINFUL!!!!! 

According to my cousin (when I was threading the hair off my face) the left side is the 'feminine' side so it hurts more! Damn right it did! 

So at the end of an hour I was leg-hair-less and gently wiping on some baby oil on my legs to soothe them. I only did it from the knee down. Too painful dy!! Then I washed and rinsed with icy cold water to get rid of the redness. Next day in school, what else? Show off larh!! Damn proud weyh...I started waxing regularly, each time less painful than the next. Incidentally I grew taller so my pinafores were shorter and I started wearing ankle socks so I went all the way. BIKINI LINE!!!

Actually, I went for bikini line because I had prom coming up and my dress was, err, backless, halter-necked and short, so full-body torture it was!!

For the first time, I waxed my arms, and I absolutely regret using this sorry-assed product to do it.

le culprit....

It was nothing like Veet, not even close! In fact, it's an insult to Veet to put a image of this shitty stuff in the same post as Veet! (sorry Veet) The Veet wax strips I bought had an amazing berry smell to it, was a pretty pale PINK, looked professional and reassuring (maybe it was the fibre strips) and I was amazingly at ease using it because somehow, just the look of it was reassuring. But this one!

 It had ZERO fragrance, ZERO color, ZERO graphic appeal, and of course, ZERO comfort. The strips were cold, hard plastic which made me yearn for Veet's cloth-type fibre strips and Nair's wax looked and smelled like glue. Not as in the kindergarten glue, glue as in the animal-bones-boiled-together glue! And no matter how much I rubbed it still remained sticky and plasticky. Fucking painful can?! It made my arm hair follicles BLEED! Like really, actually BLEED! Was literally crying but I couldn't go out and get a box of Veet because it was one night before the big day! My arms, shoulders, underarms, AND part of my back was subjected to the torture (My legs were happy because the last of the Veet was used on them, thus prompting me to go get some more, but the store didn't have it so I ended up with this shit).

Never going to use it ever again. The leftover strips are still sitting at the bottom of my bag, sorry-assed for making me bleed. I'm just going to throw them out. They don't even deserve my attention! hmpf! *hair flip* 

So after that I got caught up in a whirlwind of studying and packing and prepping for THE BIG MOVE (more on that in a later post) and I left my pins to themselves. After it all settled I was just too lazy to do anything, let alone wax.

After I moved to KL, my cousin's hairdresser naturally became mine, and one fine day my cousin wanted to go thread off her moustache and unibrow, so I tagged along to the hairdresser (who does threading in addition to cutting and styling hair) to see what it was all about. And of course foolish moi decided to get a FULL FACE THREADING! 

The forehead and cheeks were okay, but when she got to my cheekbones and mouth I was practically screaming in pain! Didn't help that for the next few days, I had these weird pimples all over my face. My aunt said it was because the threading pulled out all the impurities from clogged pores and whatnot and that the skin was actually healing. Was so sad :(

My skin eventually healed and was so smooth and touchable I kept touching my cheeks to make sure they were mine! Although next time I want to banish fuzz from my face I'd use the facial wax strips Veet sells. Haven't seen them around, though. Anyone know where I can get some in KL?

On the last trip to Sitiawan, I had a healthy regrowth of curls down my legs and arms, though nowhere as thick as before. I knew there was no way I could wax three-months worth of regrowth off with wax strips, so I went back to a razor. But not just any razor...

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...it was Schick Intuition Plus!

Le Solemn Note : 

At this point I would like to thank Denise for stopping me from buying 

disposable razors and guiding me to feminine razors. I will forever be grateful <3

So anyway, I used it on my underarms and loved it! It's a 4-blade razor nestled in a chunk of soap containing aloe vera and some other stuff idk but I like it!

looks like this....so professional right?!?!

The best part is that it lasts VERY long, (you're supposed to replace the head once the soap chunk wears down) and it is so affordable! You just need to go buy the heads, click one on, and use! No nicks and cuts, and smells good too! But then I wish they'd sell the different variants in Malaysia. Guardian, Carrefour all got this teal colored one only, actually the range has the same razor in yellow, pink, and green plus a limited edition range with attractive designs! But I can only find this one! *sigh* It's fine, I still like it :D

I had planned on using this on my whole body and then start waxing, but this razor's performance sort of exceeded my expectations so I'll only wax my legs and use this for the rest of my body! It cuts the hair a certain way so the regrowth doesn't poke and itch, but only for a few days.

I order to motivate myself to get started on my legs, I grabbed ye old friend off the shelves of Carrefour yesterday....

Veet Suprem Essence Wax Strips!!!!

So happy to finally get hold of wax strips again! I foresee a bright future of hairless limbs and utmost confidence LOL.

So this marks the end of the Transformation of Le Hairy Gorilla, namely me, into Le Smooth Hairless (except for eyebrows and my head) Girl! Actually it's not the end larh, I still have to fight with regrowth, but people say if you keep waxing the hair will eventually stop growing, so I'm working towards that!!

Stay tuned, Veet Suprem Essence Wax Strips Rave and Rant! coming up. Next post, Lip Balm Special Comparison Rave and Rant!.

NOTE : RAVE AND RANT! IS MY VERSION OF A REVIEW WHERE I RAVE OR RANT OR DO BOTH ABOUT A PRODUCT. MY RAVE AND RANT!s CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING EXCEPT FACIAL SKINCARE BECAUSE MY SKIN IS TOO SENSITIVE FOR ME TO BE TESTING DIFFERENT PRODUCTS ON IT.

Keep reading!

Bye Edibadie!

Lots of love, Rox <3