SUGARING PASTE – HARD 1.3kg 45Oz FOR TOUGHEST HAIR (BIKINI, BRAZILIAN, UNDERARMS)

Exfoliate a day or two prior!!! If you get major ingrown hairs and have horrible dragon skin like I do, this will drastically improve your experience. I made sure to watch every video possible and took the main tip of taking the room/body temperature into major consideration. It's 106 degrees in Texas, most homes are around 78-85 degrees internally so I veto'd heating up the wax prior to use.I showered first, thoroughly dried off. Wipe down my legs using witch hazel and used a wooden tongue depressor to scoop out the wax. It was firm but pliable to the touch, a bit stringy so make sure you're not anywhere it would matter if you got a little sticky stuff on it (comes off real easy, even off of the rug! lol).I will say learning the technique was fun but it does require a lot of practice due to the temperature being a major factor so you really gotta get in tune with that. I found using the tongue depressor or a card worked best for me when it came to the lifting technique. Application, I switched between the tongue depressor or my hands, kinda just depended on the surface area coverage I was going for.I practiced on my legs before moving to my bikini area, I still think about the review on how the woman glued her legs together. This was definitely a application and temperature issue. I highly recommend using very small amounts (I would use an amount that was about the size of a marble?), you don't need a lot at all especially when you are learning still. I definitely flicked some folded ribbons of sugar everywhere at times, they said to flick like you mean it and it should fold on itself so you know you're fulling parallel to the skin.Choosing between Hard or Medium wax, again, taking in the temps of Texas I went for the Hard wax. I think it offers more versatility due to the environment. A few hairs were missed, due to either technique/hair length/hair thinness but 1 out of who knows how many I'll take it! My hair grows in really sparse and thin on my legs, I don't even shave knee up because you can't tell I even have hair (Asian genes). My husband pointed out it was probably fun for me because it didn't hurt due to the lack of density of hair most people experience. None the less, I did attempt my bikini area which I have had professionally sugar'd once (which hurt like no other) but when I did it (2nd time ever sugar'd), it was less awful? But they say after the first surgaring will always hurt less so there is some truth to that.Aftercare is super important, I used a mixture of oils that are light and non-pore clogging to help alleviate the areas. Woke up baby smooth and no issues!

I definitely had a steep learning curve with this stuff, but after a failed first attempt, I did some research and found out that either my body was too warm or the room temperature was too warm because the stuff would just turn from a near solid to goop after I worked it for maybe 15-20 seconds.Basically, I ended taking a quick shower (no oils, creams or lotions) with a sugar scrub and a run of cold water, keeping the a/c low at 68-69 degrees Fahrenheit and have a fan running in the area I planned to sugar. Used a powder on the areas I planned to work and worked the paste in my hands to get it somewhat malleable and then laid it down over the hairy area against the direction of growth and worked the sugar a bit to smooth and lengthen the strip and get a little excess at one end to be able to pull from; getting the wrist to roll right when doing the pull was definitely key to getting a good pull that wouldn’t rip the hair but get a clean tug that would pull the hair’s root out as well. Then just repeat until I hit every area I wanted free of hair.I got legs, underarms, upper arms, and tops of my feet and some areas in the nether regions, a small portion of that area needed to be left alone since it’s too delicate an area to go with this stuff (at least for me). Using witch hazel immediately after finishing an area helps to cut down on ingrown hairs or infections. And the azulene oil definitely helps cut down redness and hairs are definitely slow to grow back and come in thinner and less noticeably. I wasn’t able to get 100% of hair, but probably 98% and anything else could be finished off with a pair of tweezers or epilator.Definitely be careful though, it does take a time or two to get your skin used to this (don’t overdo it the first time and if you’ve done the area twice in once sitting and there’s still some hair left, leave it for next time) as I did have some serious redness after the first time but the times after that, I’ve been totally okay, no ingrown hairs, no zits or infected follicles, no red patches, just smooth skin. Sugar scrubs in the shower in the following days also would be my recommendation in addition to witch hazel post scrub and then the azolene oil.Pain-wise, it’s about what you’d expect from ripping large amounts of hair out at once and I have probably an above-average pain tolerance, but I definitely prefer this once every few weeks to being hairy but that a personal preference and now my hairs aren’t nearly as thick as they once were, so it’s not that bad at all anymore (but that first time does require some mental fortitude)Overall, I needed something more natural than waxing, but longer lasting than shaving and stubble is just uncomfortable and unsightly so between this and an epilator, I found my solution.

I decided to wait until a couple months had passed before writing a review because I wanted to make sure my opinions were actually reliable.At first, after purchasing this sugar paste, this stuff was a mess! I had a very difficult time controlling it when trying to wax my legs. There were numerous occasions where it flew off my hand and stuck to the wall or the floor. Thankfully, the wax is water soluble, so it was easy to clean up! As time went on, I began using the plastic waxing tool thing rather than my hands and that seemed to work way better! I was able to more effectively get the "wrist flick" and get more hair out with each pass...and the wax didn't fly off and hit the wall!In terms of effectiveness, I have yet to see it get ALL of the hair. This wax does a much better job at pulling the dark, thicker hairs rather than the light, thinner hairs on my legs. I find myself still needing to shave the remainder of those little guys after I wax, but my legs do tend to stay completely smooth for at least 3-5 days after waxing! It is also worth mentioning that my legs are definitely more sensitive for the first 24 hours after waxing. They feel kind of tingly-ish, and I notice things brushing against them more frequently. I also have some red bumps all over for 6-12 hours after waxing. This makes sense, though, as I am ripping the hair out of its follicles...of course there will be some irritation and redness immediately after!In terms of timing, this wax is better used in the wintertime rather than the summer because I need to let my hair grow out enough for the wax to actually grab a hold of it. I don't like to do in the summer since my legs show more frequently, but in the winter when my legs are covered most of the time, I have no qualms letting my hair grow out a bit!