7 At-Home Waxing Mistakes That Make You Want to Cry (and How to Fix Them)
The waxing-101 guide
7 reasons your wax won't behave
Waxing yourself isn't hard, but it is unforgiving of shortcuts. If your wax won't grip, snaps off in little chips, or hurts way more than it should, you're almost certainly making one of these seven mistakes — and every single one is fixable.
Every one is fixable
The 7 mistakes
Tap through each one. The symptom up top, the fix in color below.
Why it's wussy approved
A bigger margin for error
Most of these mistakes hurt more with strip wax, which bonds to your skin as much as your hair. Our stripless hard wax shrink-wraps the hair and lifts off in one piece — so even when your technique is still a work in progress, you've got a lot less ouch.
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