101 in 1001 {II}: 041 get a bikini wax [completed 11.15.11]
That Crawford Tillinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator, for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.
(h.p. lovecraft, "from beyond")
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Are you from the future?!
lä! lä! Cthulhu Vajazzle!*
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you are a braver woman than I.
that was way not tmi.
WHERE'S MY TMI
p.s. i am never logging in again in protest of how annoying it is to log in.
xoxo,
me
apparently i'm not finished:
where were you during the Brazilian craze? how did you miss that???
hee hee.
i missed the brazilian craze. in my defense, i think it was more of a "white girl" craze.
(internets, all of those were esb, in case you couldn't tell)
i love you too much to give you a detailed account of the indignities i suffered last night. i will say that 1) though my high tolerance for pain has been reconfirmed, 2) you'd have to chloroform me to get me back on that table. also, though i contemplated asking for change in order to tip my gal prior to the treatment, i was dead certain afterward that 3) anyone willing to approach those places with wax deserves at least $20 over the top.
who the hell gets those things on a regular basis?! not a rhetorical question.
when was this craze? i think we all know why i missed it, but i refuse to believe it happened at all.
my first was in a foreign country, in a "room" that was really just a corner of a salon with a sheet strung up. i couldn't communicate with anything other than gestures and i was not only de-furred but also partially de-skinned.
i think it was nearly 7 years before i attempted it again. now, if i want one, i SHELL OUT. not an area in which to go cheap, i think.
oh, god: if i'd heard that, i'd never have made it to the salon at all! this one was actually at a very nice place, though i did (cough) have a groupon for ye waxin'. i can only imagine what goes down at a fly-by-night joint.
I am indeed a regular, and strangely in my experience there is no clear correlation between expense and quality in this arena. I've had some awkward/painful/unbeautiful pricey rips, and much better jobs done by immigrants charging less. The price point seems to pivot on the ambience, which I can live without. Currently I visit my people (the Vietnamese) at literally the closest salon to my house, where $25 + tip does the job every 5-6 weeks. In NYC I went to the Russians at Beauty & Youth Salon on 6th Ave in the Village. There was one I tended to avoid, but generally they were great.
ouch.
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