As much as I hate the old adage that beauty is pain, sometimes it’s really, really true. I mean, have you ever waxed your eyebrows? What about your legs? What about your ahem downstairs area? Yeah, pretty painful as anyone who’s ever gone in for a bikini wax knows. So I guess I don’t feel too bad for one man who was a little curious about his girlfriend’s at-home wax strips and decided to experiment.
Poor guy. He saw his girlfriend use her wax strips on her hands and legs and wanted to give it a try.
She told him that it “didn’t hurt at all,” and the wax was pink — how bad could it be?
“After watching many people on the internet screamed for their soul when they waxed, I got intimidated by the idea of putting the wax strips on my body,” he wrote on Reddit's Today I F–ked Up forum.
But his girlfriend waxed her legs “effortlessly”, so he tried a test patch on his leg too.
“It was not that hairy but since I have never shaved or trimmed it before, the amount of visible hair that I can see through the wax strip looked quite a lot,” he wrote. “I pulled it off quickly and, surprisingly, it was not hurt at all.”
Then it was time to really get the party started.
And by that I mean he decided it was time to wax his pits — ”they are quite long and gross now,” he explained.
Cut to his younger sister walking in, as the guy was “lying on the edge of the bed with both of my arms up, with two pink wax strips on my armpits, while my GF was laughing and taking photos of it.”
Even his sister picked up her phone to record the experiment for posterity.
First, his girlfriend tried the left armpit “and it was hurt like h–l.”
“I looked over but the strip was still there,” he recalled. “Turns out, my armpit hairs were too long and that wax strips [are] only meant to use on arms or legs.”
“THE STRIP WAS TOO WEAK TO PULL MY ARMPIT HAIR OFF,” he continued. “It came back to where it was and left me with one of the worst pain in my armpit that I have ever experienced.”
His sister ran to get a cold towel to help with the irritation, but it didn’t work.
He then tried rinsing off the strips off in the with hot water, but “the wax residue couldn't be removed with hot water.”
“My armpit hairs stuck together and start to twist themselves like a protein,” he continued. “Everything begins to stick on to my armpit skin which gives me the most unpleasant experience of gluing my own armpits. No matter how hard I rinsed, the wax wouldn't come off.”
Then, his girlfriend resorted to a razor, thinking that she can just shave the problem away.
Of course that led to the two of them shaving his pits in the shower at midnight.
“It was really messy since the wax kept getting stuck on the razor, but we could finally remove most of the twisted hairs,” he wrote.
The hair was gone, but there was still wax residue on his armpits.
Alcohol burned his skin, and wiping Vaseline off his armpits gave him a rash. Finally, he found the only solution that actually worked: olive oil.
“My sister was still there to film me applying olive oil to my armpits,” he wrote. “The wax residue finally came off but left my armpits [looking] bumpy, irritated, with a couple of hairs stranded in the middle of the battlefield.”
Obviously, the comments section was equally horrified and found the story hilarious.
"YOU. HAVE. TO. TRIM. THEM. FIRST.," one commenter wrote. "You can't just go right in. You have to trim it down first, or this happens."
"On the up side, I think this classifies as 'seen me at my worst' and shows that you've got a keeper in her," someone else wrote.
"Look at the bright side. You can wear sleeveless now," a third person joked.
In the end, I guess you could safely say this was not an experiment he’d recommend.
“Waxing? Never again,” he wrote.
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