I was really happy to get a last-minute appointment for a Brazilian at Bare, having checked the reviews for Bare beforehand (for the other location - whoops), since I was unable to get one at Sugarbox or Frilly Lily (my two reguarl places.) I hadn't been for a wax in quite some time and I was in town and wanted to get one before un upcoming trip. Now, 24 hours later, I am absolutely ruing that I was able to get in. I wish I had just taken my $40, thrown it down a sewer grate, and continued living my life (with a slightly furry lady region).
The aesthetician (didn't get the name, had a Russian or Eastern European accent) was extremely cold, extremely rushed, and extremely uninterested when I told her the negative experiences I've had in the past with waxes (welts, skin pulled off, bruising, crazy ingrowns). I was the last appointment of the day and I think she was just keen to go home.
For starters, this has to be one of the most painful waxes I have ever received. Other aestheticians I have been to try to do the wax in as few strips as possible, use their hand to press down on the skin after each strip to alleviate pain, and pull straight up against the grain. This woman did none of these things. It was so painful and her "bedside manner" was so non-existent that I found I was clenching / tensing a lot during the process which I know makes more hairs just "break" rather than being pulled out at the root.
She told me she wasn't going to be able to get all the hairs out because they were in different stages of growth, so I guess I can't complain that now it just looks like I just did a terrible job of shaving down there, with tons of stubble. I'm giving Bare two stars because the aesthetician convinced me it's my fault there was lots of leftover short hairs and that it was so painful, because I haven't been coming in for regular waxes. But I have to say that when I've gone to other waxers in the same situation, they did a much better job of removing the hair and with a much better attitude.
When it came time to do "the back" she had my lie on my stomach, which I found a little weird having gotten used to lying on my side at other places. That would have been OK, I guess, except after she finished she kept lecturing me about getting regular waxes while I was butt-naked face down on the table which felt weird.
It gets worse. It was very painful / uncomfortable on my way home, sure, normal. But by later last night it was still so painful I was limping around my apartment and using ice cubes on my nether region. To repeat, it was so painful and burning I had to put ICE CUBES on my VAGINA. Today, alongside the stubble, I have inflamed red hair follicles (which I just know are dying to break out into a huge crop of disgusting ingrowns and PAINFUL RAISED RAW RED WELTS. It looks like I am being attacked by some kind of flesh-eating disease.
I will never go back to this place again.
Sugarbox, I am so sorry I got impatient and cheated on you. Never again. read more