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by astrogirl » Wed, 12 Mar 2008 6:39 pm
There's nothing wrong with cotton strips. If I'm not wrong, it is called soft/strip/cold/warm wax, this usually comes in a bottle with a roll-on applicator applied to skin, usually on larger areas like legs or arms etc. Cotton or plastic strips placed on wax immediately, stroked and smoothen and pull up with the wax and har transfered on to the cotton strips. You can find this cold soft wax for DIY home use at the pharmacy
Hard wax or called hot wax, is a hard lump of wax and has too be warmed up in an electric pot to become more liquid (much like caramel), the therapist will test for comfortable temperature, applied with a spatula, spread onto the skin, usually better for underarm hair (much thicker and shorter). The therapist will pat the wax, it will harden a little and pulled off by hand like a patch of thick buble gum.
I have tried both at Strip. Any wax that uses cotton or plastic strips is called strip or soft wax, can be warm or cold. For my legs, they use warm wax, which is warmed, soft wax.
I must say that in all my experience, soft/strip wax, the re growth is faster, I can feel the slight stubble in about 2 weeks on my legs.
I prefer hard/hot wax for underarms. I've tried this for legs too, the re growth is much slower, say 4 weeks and less stubble or some how the stubble is softer. Hard wax is expensive, very expensive for large areas like legs.
astrogirl
