Hollywood waxing - the home attempt!

Advantages: A lot cheaper than going to a salon; easy to use; very tidy
Disadvantages: Can be difficult to reach certain areas by yourself; needed reheating regularly

...Having recently discovered the joys of a full Hollywood wax and then discovering that I'd have to pay at least £30 to have this done every few weeks, I was chatting to my friend who suggested that we attempt to wax each other using the Smooth Appeal easy wax for the bikini area - it would save money and would be a good laugh as well. So last night, armed with a couple of bottles of wine, a microwave and a slow cooker (I'll explain later!), we decided to proceed. My friend started by waxing my bikini line at the top and we were both very impressed at how easy the wax went on, how quickly it hardened and how easy it was to peel off. We did struggle to work out how you could use this product by yourself, however, as it would require some impressive spine bending to be able to see what you were doing! One thing we did find was that...

malteser17 03.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Smooth Appeal Wax Easy

Wax on, wax off...

Advantages: Ensures slower regrowth.
Disadvantages: Takes a bit of practice to ensure best results.

...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 (yellow pack), though they may be used on other parts 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...

Leighsa 25.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Veet Ready To Use Wax Strips

Dax Wax Red

Advantages: Great hold - can last for ages, tub lasts for ages, cheap
Disadvantages: Can leave hair looking a little greasy if too much is used or if build up has occured

...BIG THUMBS UP FROM ME This product is the only thing that gets my very thick and wiry hair looking in any way stylish. I have tried the other Dax products, and the red variety is definitely the best for my hair. I use it after I have towel dried my hair thoroughly, rub a small amount onto my fingers and then work it through. It's quite solid wax, but it still allows you to shape it once it's in your hair. Rubbing it through your fingers first softens it up a little and means its easier to work with. As others have mentioned, the hold is tremendous, especially if you use tiny additional amounts on top of your original application to shape specific parts of your hair. GETTING IT OUT OF YOUR HANDS AND HAIR Now, I have heard many people talk about how hard it is to get out of your hands and hair. I almost stopped using it for that...

JimmyMack1973 29.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dax Wax

Paw wax for dogs

Advantages: Prevent accidents
Disadvantages: can't find one

...Shaw's paw wax for dogs. Last year my Dalmatian had a horrific accident. She was running across my patio and she hit ice and slipped, she went head first towards the little wall leading onto my grass, at the last minute she tried to jump to clear it and ended up hitting the wall and back flipping over it. She landed in a heap in the snow and it looked like a massacre, she had split her hind leg from her toe right up to her thigh down to the bone and blood was gushing everywhere. When she tried to move only her front end worked. I wrapped a towel round her leg, bundled her into the car and raced to the vets. Once there they immediately sedated her and put in 40 staples up her legs - Whilst still conscious. As it was a Sunday there were no nurses in so I had to help the vet holder her upright and helping to bring the edges of the wound...

Salson 19.11.2005 (11.12.2009) · Read review
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Review of Shaws Paw wax, grip wax for pets.

House Of Wax

Advantages: Good film
Disadvantages: Paris Hilton

...House of Wax features a cast apparently chosen from their headshots rather than any particular ability or connection to the material. Loosely remade from the Vincent Price classic, Paris Hilton herself says this film's major improvement is that "The original didn't really have a hot cast." Says it all really !! Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, This is his 1st film that he has done. In my opinion he's done a good job. The main plot is a group of teenagers on a road trip to go see a football game the next game. Of course they have to camp out in the middle of know where. This is when strange things happen. Though I would have like to have seen more strange things happen. Like kill Paris off in the 1st few minutes would have been nice. Of course with most teen horror the car breaks down and of course they have to go and find...

Bens__mummy 07.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of House Of Wax (DVD)

DEFINITELY NOT WAXING LYRICAL

Advantages: Ummmm - well it smells quite nice....
Disadvantages: It doesn't work. I'd say that's a pretty big disadvantage...

...Waxing Lyrical. 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 the things that the world (or the money making machine) wants us to. This lines the pockets of businessmen who thing that happiness can be bought and who continue to think up new things that they can convince us we need in order to achieve a similar state of ?happiness?. Ladies, let me be clear, happiness is not a smooth leg or underarm. It is not to be found in...

phoenixgreen 24.06.2007 (25.06.2007) · Read review
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Review of Veet Ready To Use Wax Strips

Dax Wax leaves Trax!

Advantages: cheaper than most products, long lasting
Disadvantages: very sticky, specific shampoo required

...My first memory of Dax Wax - I had been with my partner for less than a month when I began to notice trails of stickiness on my pillows...greasy marks on my towel's and every surface around by room seemed to have a sweaty wet feel to it... No...it was all innocent - this is the trail that Dax wax leaves in it's wake! I had actually purchased this for my partner as it was cheap in a shop called QLM, only £1.69 for a full sized metal tub. As he's obsessed with his hair I thought I would treat him. He began using it almost immediately and found that it was surprisingly effective. As he had fairly long hair, most products were not much use, but Dax wax keeps its hold for much longer than most. In fact, it held his hair high all day long and soon became a firm favourite. I personally wasn't so keen on his using it as it left his hair...

Celia86 22.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Dax Wax

Wax Away!

Advantages: you can wax area's yourself
Disadvantages: it hurts

...I always wax, I've tried many different brands and salons and I must say it's been a very painfull experiance on the way! With Veet Wax strips, I picked a box up at our local ASDA for £4.50, which is good value for money seeing as there are 20 strips in a box. When I got home, I was at the horrible letting hair grow stage and couldn't wait to get rid of it. after reading the instructions carefully to make sure they were used the same as all waxing strips, I slid the strip down my leg and holding the skin tight with my one hand, the other I pulled back the strip... OUCH... Pain o'rama! and to make matters worse, hardly any hair had come off! I wasn't impressed, tried a couple more of the strips and had the same incident happen, so gave up. I ended up throwing away the box, phoning my local beauty salon and booked a waxing...

glitter-fairy 19.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Veet Ready To Use Wax Strips

Dax wax (red tin)

Advantages: keeps your hair where you want it
Disadvantages: takes a while to get out of your hair

...I have tried using many different types of wax and creams for my hair. Such as Shock waves, fructis amongst others. The only wax that I have found to keep my hair in place and lock out moisture. It is essential that the product is used on short hair as it gives you a shiny waxy look; this would not be suitable for long hair, smooth styles or that dry look that you might get with a putty. This product is only meant to be used on dry hair. I think that it is best to but on hair that has just been dried of you leave your hair to cool, it hurts a little to place the wax in your hair (don't forget pain in beauty) This tin contains 3.5 oz or 99gm of wax. It comes in a round tin, which the lid is a little hard to get off. The packaging is a little dated but simple. I feel that the packaging does not reflect the contents...

jonathanw3 22.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of Dax Wax

Wax On - Wax Off

Advantages: Paris Hilton get;s bumped off
Disadvantages: Nothing new, No scares, Another lame Dark Castle film

...Dark Castle Entertainment was set-up to produce some great horror genre pictures based on horror from the fifties. The men behind such as visionary company are Joel (The Matrix/Lethal Weapon) Silver and Robert (Back To The Future/Roger Rabbit) Zemeckis. Now between them they've produced or directed some good movies. So why is it that all the films they've produced so far under this banner have pretty much sucked or been incredibly under-whelming? After such MTV-inspired dreck such as 13 Ghosts and Gothika we now get House of Wax. On the DVD the producers come up with the line that it's based on the incredibly fun Vincent Price film of the same name. Well it shares the same name and the idea that some of the waxworks are actually corpses. Apart from that everything in it is from 'Hollywood Horror Movie 101'. Bunch of American teens...

utero 15.10.2005 · Read review
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