More like Superglue! (Immac Perfect Roll-On Warm Wax)

Member Name: Little Miss

Product:	Immac Perfect Roll-On Warm Wax
Date:	22/05/01 (252 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: mess, pain

Remember when the sun came out and was nice and warm the other day? Well I decided it was time to get my legs out for the summer, they've been rather neglected over the winter so I decided to treate them. I hate having to shave my legs numerous times a week or having to mess around with hair disolving creams so I decided I try waxing. It lasts upto 6 weeks, allegedly!

So I trotted off to the shops and found the perfect wax it even said so on the lable. It was in an easy to use roll on dispenser which you heated in the microwave (or in a bowl of hot water if you are lacking a microwave, I can't comment on how effective this is as I didn't try it and have no intentions to).

I got home and thoroughly read the instructions, they recommend either using your kitchen or bathroom, as my microwave is in my kitchen I decided this was the best place. Also my kitchen floor is tiled, it advises against using wax near soft furnishings.

And so it began, firstly I had to take the lid off the wax remove the foil seal and replace the lid, sounds easy but no it took some serious strength to get the lid to click back on properly. Then into the microwave it went. Following the instructions I then shook the wax container to even out the temperature of the wax and tested it on my hand. All seemed fine so I began. Firstly it took a while to get the roller going which distributes the wax onto your leg but once it started it seemed fine. The strips were quite long so I put an application of wax the same length on my leg. The instructions didn't advise other wise. I then realised it's not so eay to hold your skin taught from ankle to knee whilst pulling off the strip. Also being a bit of a chicken I couldn't cunjure up enough courage to pull the hole stip off at once and ended up doing it in two halves which I'm sure hurt more. Not to be out off I tried a second time, this time I only applied enough wax to use half a s
trip, I found this much easy as I managed to hold the skin taught and to pull the strip off in one quick tug. So I continued for a while and the wax began to cool. At this point the rolled began to stick and I had to roll over the same area of my leg a few times to get enough wax applied. The wax also became stringy and I ended up with stringy bits floating onto the floor and sticking to my arms. It was all become a little messy, but the instructions said you could remove any excess wax with baby oil so I wasn't too worried.

I decided to reheat my wax as directed, again I tested the wax before applying it to my leg but I hadn't noticed the escaped blob of wax which had been on the outside of the roller which had heated up very nicely in the microwave and when rolled down my leg created a nice red burn! It was nothing a bit of ice wouldn't solve and as I was onto my second leg I decided to carry on. Now I was beginning to run out of stips but the instructions said you could use each strip upto four times. So I began to reuse them, this is when it all wen bad. I was using a strip for the fourth time, I stuck it on my leg realising the wax was building up quite thickly on the strip by now, anyway I gave it a tug and "OUCH"! Plus a few other choice words, what happened? Well the build up of wax was so thick when I pulled the strip it pulled my flesh with it, luckily being the chicken I am I hadn't pulled that hard and quickly let go. I now had a strip stuck to my leg with a huge amount of wax and a rapidly swelling ankle! I set about slowly peeling off the strip, it wasn't actually so difficult to remove the strip but by now pulling it off quickly it left the wax behind. So I reached for the little oily wipes which came with the wax "to be used to remove excess wax" according to the instructions. In reality, if you rub them vigourously over the wax and leave it 5 minutes and then rub again it will remove mo
st of it but not all. In fact stray bits of wax will plague you for days, you think it's gone but then you notice fluffy bits starting to appear on your legs or hands and you've found another bit of stray wax.

So I ended up with 1 and a half waxed legs which ment I still had to shave one leg and after a week I was back to shaving both, you see although it got most of the hairs, it didn't get them all. Also as hairs grow at different rates some were too short for the wax to get them, even though I'd let them grow much longer than normal before waxing. Plus I ended up wearing trousers for a week to cover up the bruise and the burn!

My advice give it a miss, the only thing that lasted 6 weeks were the stray bits of wax kept finding all over my kitchen.

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