I'm in awe (Veet Ready-to-Use Wax Strips)

Member Name: muppa

Product:	Veet Ready-to-Use Wax Strips
Date:	04/08/07 (1819 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Removes hair beautifully on big areas (legs) with small and quickly dissapering after-effects

Disadvantages: Useless for bikini line and other tricky areas. Also, the wipes are not good.

Product: Veet Wax strips for cold waxing
Producer: Veet
Contains: 20 wax strips and 4 finishing wipes with mint extracts
Price: £4.49 on an offer at Boots.

For those of us who can actually prove the monkeys are our ancestors just by showing upp our amount of body hair, waxing is a good alternative. Done in the right way, it removes the hair perfectly and lets you have at least three or four weeks of hair-free legs before you have to start to worry again.

When waxing with wax strips, you take a double strip (two pieces stuck together with wax in between) and rum it between your hand to heat it upp with the friction. Gently pull appart the two pieces, et voilá - you have two wax strips ready to use! You apply the strips to your legs or bikini line, and let them stay for 5-10 sekonds. Then, making sure you keep the skin taught but holding a hand under, you quickly pull of the wax strip, making sure your pull is done against the growing direction of your hair. The same strip can be used 2-3 three times. In the case of Veet, I managed to use the strip twice, but after that it was used up. After waxing it is advisable to use the finishing wipes to remove any bits of wax still left on the skin, and to sooth the area, making the flush minimal.

I usually use Yves Rochers cold wax strips, that I have already reviewed here, and have been very happy with them. But recently I went on vecation, and as I didn't have the possibillity to order from Yves Rocher while away, I bought the Veet wax strips. Yesterday was the first time I gpot around to using them.

Oh. My. God. I can't believe the difference. As I said, I have been happy with Yves Rocher, but these are a completelly different legue. The hair is removed completelly, with no small hairs left at all. They do boast of removing hair even as short as 2 mm, and after yesterday, I do believe it is true.

But what's more important is that the flush on my legs after waxing was so much less than usual! Redness and red spots where you have removed the hairs with the roots is somthing you have to put upp with for 12-24 hours after waxing. But with Veet the amount of redness was noticably smaller than with other wax I've tried. What's more, now, less than 12 hours later, when I woke up, it's al but gone. Much much faster than usual.

There were a few drawbacks with Veet, though, that are as important as the positive things.

When waxing the bikini line it is of course impossible to use a whole strip. Usually, I cut down a strip into several smaller pieces, and use them seperatelly. With Yves Rocher, that's always worked fine, in fact, it is something they suggest in their instructions. But here's a warnig: Don't try this with Veet. What happened was that when I tried to remove the wax was that the end of the strip that was cut of stuck to my skin. In a very strong and extremelly painfull way. An area of about 4 times 2 cm was covered in wax and hair that simply would not be removed. Needless to say, I didn't try the other half of this strip! I simply went over to Yves Rochers wax strips for the bikini line.

Another less-than-perfect detail in this packet were the finishing-wipes, suposedly ment to remove wax and soothe the waxed area. I found them useless, far to dry to cover the areas that had been waxed and unable to remove wax residues. In the end I opted for using the Yves Rocher Aloe Vera oil, also reviewed by me here at dooyoo, that I got together with the same brands wax strips.

A final verdict of Veet wax strips is that I am amazed at the result they gave me on my legs - a really beautifull result, with the extra positive point that I can show my legs to the world after only a nights sleep. But the strips are simply not possible to use for bikini areas or other small, tricky areas. For this I will stick to Yves Rochers eax. Also, I'd advise you to use a seperate soothing gel or oil, as the wipes don't stand upp to what they promise.

Summary: In the future I will definatelly use Veet for my legs. But I'll stick to other brands for bikini.