Holy Hair Removal, Batman

Yes, I've come into my Italian womanhood.  At the age of 27, I've begun the mustache waxing.  I knew it was coming, because I could look in the mirror and see the beginnings of those dark pelty hairs on my lip, but I didn't know it would be this soon.  For the last two or three weeks, I'd sort of been wondering if those hairs hadn't gotten longer and darker, but S told me that they weren't so bad, and you could barely see them.  But then I'd be washing my face or brushing my teeth and I'd see them, and I mean, it wasn't like I was face-to-face with the mirror.  It was making me uncomfortable, and so last night I asked my aesthetician what she thought, and she confirmed my suspicions, and told me she might just wax the corners, and not the whole lip.  She did spend some time warning me how painful it was going to be, telling me that she had just waxed her own upper lip fuzz a few weeks ago, and she was unprepared for how awful it was going to be.  And I mean, this is a woman who waxes people for a living.  Anyway, what could I do?  Say no?  No, the hair was unsightly, and I figured it couldn't be that much worse than the eyebrow waxes I've been getting for 5 years.

I was wrong.  She tried to tell me it was worse, and I wouldn't listen.  In fact, it was so painful that as she pulled off the fabric for the second time, I pretty much yelled fuck, and by pretty much I mean that I was conscious that I shouldn't be yelling but was having a hard time not screaming bloody murder.  It's worse.  It's so much worse that today the skin is still sore and now it has some welty-looking bumps on it, and you can now see very clearly that there used to be hair there and now there isn't.  It looks like I had a very painful procedure done, and well, I did.  It's ugly and disgusting, and I hate it.  But I hated my mustache, too, and so here we are in a classic Catch-22.  I was miserable with the hair, and now I'm miserable without it.  I suspect, though, that the redness and welty things will go away at some point (sooner, rather than later, please please please; I do not want red lumps all over me when S is taking 1 million pictures with me in them in Rome), and then I'll be happy as a clam.

You know, until the next time I have to get my 'stache waxed.  Because I am, let's face it, Italian, and so this is going to be a forever thing, unless I decide that I'm okay having a baby mustache, which I don't think is going to happen.  I know that I have to go back and get this stuff taken off again, because if I don't, in a few years, S and I will have matching mustaches.  What a pleasant thought, eh?

Comments

[Rita]

Maybe it gets easier. Like bikini waxing? Or... you could bleach? You're pretty pale, so bleaching might work and not look noticible.

Ow. I hurt in sympathy.

[mavis]

Being a regular eyebrow and bikini waxer, those two do get less painful as it goes on, but I do consistently hear that lip waxing is painful. What about threading? Also painful, but probably less red bumpy and welty. What's lash tinting?

[M]

Threading is more painful than waxing!