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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

5 Things To Consider Before Getting Your First Bikini Wax

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The XX Team
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1: IT HURTS:

We’re not even go­ing to lie… get­ting a biki­ni wax hurts. But you might be sur­prised to find that it won’t hurt as much as you’re ex­pect­ing, be­cause it’s been hyped up to be the world’s worst pain. But the process is fair­ly sim­ple: the wax­er will spread hot wax on­to your skin, and us­ing a strip or hard wax (more on that af­ter), will pull it off piece by piece. Ex­pect to feel a sting or some dis­com­fort, but it’ll on­ly last for a few sec­onds. If you know you have a low­er pain tol­er­ance, opt to take some pain-killers like an ibupro­fen an hour be­fore your ap­point­ment, which will help to re­duce in­flam­ma­tion, and in turn, pain.

2: THERE ARE DIF­FER­ENT KINDS OF WAX:

Did you know that there are two dif­fer­ent kinds of wax? Soft wax and hard wax. Chances are, if you’ve got­ten a wax be­fore, you’ve used soft wax at some point, as it’s the most com­mon type used. It’s ap­plied on­to the skin with a wood­en spat­u­la, and re­moved with a strip of fab­ric. Hard wax, on the oth­er hand, re­quires more skill and prac­tice, so it’s not as com­mon­ly used, or might be more ex­pen­sive. Hard wax hard­ens by it­self, stick­ing to your hair and not your skin, so it’s gen­tler on your skin when pulled and caus­es less ir­ri­ta­tion. Many sa­lons might of­fer both, but if you have sen­si­tive skin or you’re con­cerned about wax­ing sen­si­tive ar­eas, it’s best to find some­where that us­es hard wax.

3: BE WARY OF PE­RI­OD WAX­ES:

While there’s no rule about get­ting a wax when you have your pe­ri­od, there are cer­tain­ly a few things you’ll want to con­sid­er be­fore book­ing your ap­point­ment the same week your pe­ri­od shows up. First of all, for a prop­er biki­ni wax, you won’t be wear­ing any un­der­wear, so you’ll need to make sure you’re wear­ing a tam­pon in­stead of a pad. Sec­ond­ly, you should note that for most women, your skin is more sen­si­tive dur­ing your pe­ri­od, and sched­ul­ing a biki­ni wax dur­ing this time might lead to a lit­tle more pain, es­pe­cial­ly if you’re not ac­cus­tomed to the ex­pe­ri­ence as yet.

4: YOU MIGHT FEEL AWK­WARD:

Ok, plain and sim­ple, get­ting a biki­ni wax can be un­com­fort­able, for more rea­sons than just the pain. To get a clean (and thor­ough) wax, your wax­er will have you switch be­tween a num­ber of po­si­tions that might make you feel just a lit­tle self-con­scious, es­pe­cial­ly con­sid­er­ing you’re to­tal­ly com­man­do dur­ing it all. Whether it’s go­ing on all fours, lift­ing one leg up, or even putting your own hands to work while you hold skin ar­eas tight­ly, it can get in­ter­est­ing to say the least. But, don’t feel awk­ward, be­cause every­one has to do this, it’s not just you. If you do feel par­tic­u­lar­ly un­com­fort­able, let your wax­er know, and you’ll fig­ure out an­oth­er way to re­move the hair that works for you both.

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