Veet Ready To Use Wax Strips

...so I picked up some Veet Ready to Use Wax Strips, which were on special offer at our Tesco Extra, at £9.00 for 40. I figured this was a pretty good buy as they normally retail at £6.99 for 20. The box proudly promised me they’d give me “eternally smooth” legs and that they were extremely easy to use. I quickly picked them up before I changed my mind and grabbed a bottle of wine, which I guessed I’d need beforehand (and possibly afterwards) to ease ...
...popped in the shower then got to reading the instructions in the handy leaflet which comes inside the box. There is a long list of ‘precautions’ you must take notice of before using these little monsters, i.e. to test an area of skin before use, especially if you are sensitive / allergic to certain ingredients in the product. I quickly scanned the instructions but was too impatient to test a little strip beforehand and decided to just be brave and ...

pennywa 25.05.2009 · Read full review
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...I picked up these from Veet on my next visit to Tesco. WHERE TO BUY: I bought the shea butter and berry variety of the strips from Tesco where they were on offer at the time. You can also pick these up in other supermarkets and pharmacies, including Boots and Superdrug. While they may not all stock the shea butter and berry ones they all seem to stock at least one variety and they all seem to do the same job. PRICE: The price depends on when you ...
...They do seem to be on offer quite a bit as well. EXPERIENCE: Ok, I've bought the strips and I'm ready. I've managed to get plastered in preparation for the pain of doing this myself (I don't really drink but this had me seriously thinking about it!). On opening the box I'm confronted with 20 strips, four perfect finish wipes which come in their own foil packets and an instruction leaflet. The instructions tell you to test a patch on your skin with ...

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...Afew years ago I found Veet wax strips. Not quite the professional look but good enough for me and more importantly, much cheaper. I began using them regularly. I would have discussions with a friend who would have her legs professionally waxed every six weeks. When my Veet strips didn`t remove all of the hairs, I toyed with the idea of paying to have them all ripped out in one go professionally. I rapidly changed my mind when I realised the difference ...
...Veet wax strips are ready to use wax strips. They come in packs of 20 but 20 actually means10 double sided strips. Two are stuck together so you need to use 2 at a time at least, or should I say, an even number as you can`t put one back in the box. They are ready to use, not like some home wax kits that you can buy where you spend ages messing around with wax. They are quick and simple, put them on, rip them off, quick as that! Also contained in ...

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...But Not About This!!! Veet Ready to Use Wax Strips. For Dry Skin. Introduction Let me be clear about one thing before we get started with this review. I don’t think women should feel obliged to be smooth all over and as hair free as a … well… a hair free person is. The world we live in operates in such a way as to make us feel we need to be a certain way, and in order to get us to that certain state of “normal”, we have to spend our pennies on ...
...they decided to call it Veet I’ll never know, but I’m sure someone got paid big bucks to think it all through! The Product The idea of this product is that you have ready to use wax strips to remove unwanted body hair from your legs, underarms and bikini line. Inside your box of tricks you have 20 wax strips, which look like just ten when you open the box and count, but are actually in doubles – so two wax strips, stuck together, and you peel them ...

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Veet Facial Waxing Strips **************************** For those of you who are new to waxing, this may not be the most encouraging first choice - I suppose, shaving is the easiest or even plucking, though fairly painful and potentially takes forever. What is it? *********** Waxing strips for hair removal. A solidified liquid wax the size of a wooden ice-cream stick is encased between two plastic sheets. The pack refers to facial waxing strips ...
...of the body such as underarms, bikini line and touch-ups. For the face, the strips can be used for the upper lip, chin and centre brow. How do I use them? ********************* It is usually best to test on a small area first to check for any sensitivities. Normally, if you have not waxed before, it is best to start waxing on the legs before attempting on the facial area in order to gain sufficient skill. First , make sure the skin area is thoroughly ...

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...I decided to try these veet wax strips instead. I have tried waxing before where you have to heat the wax up and then have material strips to pull it off with, but I was really unsuccessful with them and made such a mess! These seemed like an easy alterative and there has been really good write ups in magazines about them so I thought I should try them out too! There are a couple of different version of these strips now (also brought out by 'Veet') ...
...skin, which are the ones I am reviewing. The strips come in a yellow cardboard packet with 'Veet' written across the front of it. Each strip has a thin layer blue wax on it, this means that all you have to do is apply them to your legs and pull them off. This is ready to use wax and there is no heating it up, it is so simple and easy to use. The strips are organised so that two strips are stuck together (wax side to wax side) but are easy enough ...

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...my (very recent) experience of Veet Ready To Use Wax Strips. Just to make clear now, the strips I used were part of the pink Complete Body Kit, consisting of 20 leg strips, 12 bikini/underarm strips, and 4 Perfect Finish wipes, and claiming to be effective on hair as short as 2mm. I'm 17 years old, normal, and to be honest, quite an optimist, so this is the first almost negative review I've given anything. The 'satisfactory' was moved up from a 'poor' ...
...like magic, if you're wondering) , but as I was in Boots to stock up these caught my eye. They were on a discount, and I'd wanted to try waxing, so I thought I'd give it a go. They cost me around £4-5, which, believe it or not, was half price. The strips themselves smelt nice, and the instructions were simple to follow. However, despite following them to the word, I didn't really get the results I'd hoped for. As a 'wax virgin', as they say on the ...

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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 ...
...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 ...

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...always wax now is with Veet Ready-to-Use Wax Strips. These wax strips come with a thin layer of blue wax already on them and they work as simply as you apply them to the area to be waxed and then pull them off, no heating, no mess and no missed bits. The strips come stuck together in the box wax side to wax side but they peel apart very easily but if you are left with an odd wax strip the chances are when you go back to use it, it will be ruined ...
...do your legs. Veet reckon you can use these on hairs as short as 2mm and I would say I agree with that because when you wax as regularly as me then the hairs are very, very short yet these strips leave me smooth and hair free every time and no shadows either (the camera never lies)! You can buy these in 20 or 40 strip packs but quite confusingly you only get 4 perfect finish wipes which ever size pack you buy, surely double the strips should entitle ...

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I find these ready to use wax strips the best on the market. I have tried several and these are definitely the best for me. I tend to use the one for sensitive skin, even though I don't have sensitive skin, just because I think it will hurt less! It does hurt a little when I wax but every time I do it, it gets easier. I must be de-sensitising! The strips contain vitamin E and Almon oil to moisturise your skin and I have never once known my skin ...
...ingredients do their job. There are 20 strips in a packet and 4 finishing wipes that are very oily but remove any waxy gubbins that are left on your skin. My favourite thing about these is the fact that you can use them on short hair so you don't have to turn into a gorilla before you can wax. On the downside, I find they always leave a few hairs. This problem has gotten worse the more I wax. I think because the hair is getting finer and more ...

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...I have never used a veet (immac) product in my life as i thought as i have sensitve skin im bound to be allergic so why bother even trying. Then i saw it on telly and someone from a forum was saying that she uses them so i thought they must be good, but how wrong could i be. I spent £4.49 on the Veet ready to use wax strips for normal skin - refreshing from Superdrug, could of gone for the sensitive one but it cost more. comes in a yellow box and ...
...Says its: *Quick and easy to use *Long lasting results - up to 4 weeks *Effective on short hair - short as 2mm *Perfect finish - smooth and soft after hair removal Suitable to use on the legs, arms and bikini line. Its also suitable to use on the face too, even though it says not to. I tried it on the face to shape my brows and get rid of the sideburns it seemed to work well there instead of my legs. Did nothing for the hair above my lip though. ...

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...a yellow thin box with veet formaly known as immac written on in blue writing also it says for normal skin. What you get 20 wax strips and 4 perfect finish wipes with mint extracts and a detailed instruction booklet. How you use them The wax strips are fairly long and can be used for the legs under-arms and bikini line, to use on the under-arms and bikini-line you should cut them to size. Before you use them you need to warm them between your ...
...placing one part of the strip on you leg and smoothing down firmly to ensure you have no air bubbles. Then the fun part you will need to pull the skin tight on your leg then in a quick smooth action rip the wax off in an upward direction and by golly it really does hurt. You repeat this process on both legs until all the hair is removed then you use a perfect finish wipe to take off the leftover wax on your leg. The perfect finish wipe is basically ...

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...so far. I think Veet underestimate how much residue you're left with when the hairs just sit there, stubbornly giving the finger to the wax strip, but they get coated in the stuff and it's hideously sticky. The perfect finish wipes would work better if there were more of them. ...

violastar 23.07.2007 · Read full review
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...of a baby!!!! These Veet strips stick to your leg, & remove all your fuzz, wether its long or short, it works on hairs as small as 2mm, so you dont have to 'grow' in order to wax - thank the lord!!!! You get 16 in a box which lasts me ages, i tend to use about 4 strips to do my lower legs. So in that sense it is good value for money as even though your spending a little less than a fiver per box, it goes a long way. To get your legs done in a salon ...
...the maths it pays to DIY! You can use them on other areas too, not just your legs, they are good if you have dark hairs on your arms, & wanna be fuzz free, especially in the summer. In my experience they are really simple to use, two are 'stuck' together. You need to pull them apart, SLOWLY & set one strip aside for later. The one you are holding, place it down flat on a part of your leg, press & smooth down to really get all the hairs stuck to ...

lady_moonsoon 01.12.2006 · Read full review
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I bought Veet Wax Strips last year, before going on holiday, in the hope that it would keep the hair on my legs away and that I wouldn't have to shave during the holiday. Whilst it did do what it says on the box, in that it did keep my legs hair-free for around four weeks, it wasn't a pleasant way of hair-removal and I'm not sure if I would use them again. The wax strips are ready to use, and come back-to-back in the box, which is a pain in itself ...
...odd one with nothing to stick it back down to. The instruction leaflet is pretty clear on how to use the strips, and the process sounds fairly simple. Rub the strips between your hands until they feel faintly warm, peel back, smooth down onto your leg and pull back, tautening your skin. In practice however, it's a lot more difficult. The wax, once warmed between your hands, is sticky, and there's a residue left behind on your leg after use. It's ...

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