Alex, what is your opinion regarding getting waxed on an area of skin that has already been waxed, but needs to be rewaxed because all the hair wasn’t removed successfully during the same visit? Is there a standard protocol for a re-wax? The reason I ask is because I had a bad experience (don’t worry, it was NOT at WTC!) where the esthetician waxed my eyebrows, but apparently missed quite a few hairs. She went back and waxed the same area again. The esthetician ended up pulling skin off and it really hurt! 

The first thing we would want to identify is the type of wax being used when you had this experience. I would guess that the esthetician may have been using a soft wax (the kind that is removed with a strip) as I have seen these types of problems occur with using this kind of wax.  Also, I would want to explore if you are on any medications or using any products that might be affecting the integrity of your skin.  

Here at Waxing the City our cerologists only use hard wax on the face. Strip wax is far too abrasive for the sensitive skin around the eyes and lip. The skin around the eyes is the thinnest skin on our bodies and because the strip wax adheres to the skin and hair it is more likely for delicate skin to lift and quite literally be ripped off along with the hair. The reason we use hard wax is because it allows us to go over the same, delicate area if needed a second time. Hard wax when applied “lifts from the skin” and minimizes the trauma to the skin...although hard wax gives us this benefit we still only will apply and remove hard wax from your skin twice (but no more than twice).

We also use baby powder on the skin as an extra barrier to keep the wax from adhering to the skin. But, rewaxing, especially on the face, is something we try to avoid; our goal is to get it right the first time. We also instruct our cerologists to tweeze the remaining hair to avoid additional wax applications.


So, basically our protocol is this: in almost all situations we use hard wax for the more, sensitive areas of the body (including brows), which allows for one additional wax application if needed. We then tweeze the remaining hair.  If using a soft or strip wax on sensitive areas, if all the hair doesn't come up we never use soft wax to go back over the area a second time. The area has already had a layer of skin exfoliated so if you then go back and use soft wax, the wax that adheres to skin and hair, will lift skin, OUCH!

Visit us anytime and experience the difference in our technique. Keep the questions coming, these are great!

Thanks,

Alex
Waxing the City- Boulder