Product Review: Sally Hansen Home Waxing Kits

I have really sensitive skin that doesn't appreciate shaving.  I sucked it up before our beach trip last year and went and had a bikini wax.  I had been getting my brows done for years, and even though the first time is a little shocking, it got easier the more frequently I went.  The experience with the brows does not translate to the bikini line.  At least not in relation to making it any less excruciating the first time.  Before our beach trip this year I went back, and it was not as bad as before.  What is bad is the price.  I'm not going just anywhere to have it done, and not all salons that offer waxing do bikini waxes, so I've been going to a place in Green Hills that charges $90.  That's well worth avoiding the pain of shaving, but its not necessarily affordable, particularly on our budget.

After watching several episodes of "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami" where Kourtney either waxes herself or someone else I figured if she can do it, I can do it.  I looked around online, but wasn't interested in spending $50+ on a kit, because they only have enough wax for one application and at that point I might as well just go have it done.  I wanted to seriously save money.  Even at the expense of it possibly being more painful.

I went to Walgreens and found the Sally Hansen Honey Wax kit.  I had read online to avoid heated waxes if you don't know what you are doing and don't have a wax warmer.  I came home and got to work, and while it wasn't more painful it also wasn't effective.  The wax is more like goo.  It doesn't stick to your skin, as promised, but it also doesn't stick to the hair or the strips.  You pull off about half the goo on the strip, leaving the rest on your skin, and remove about 3 hairs per pull.  Nope.

I went to Walgreens again and got the Sally Hansen pre-waxed strips.  Now, those worked.  The wax does not stick to the skin, it does stick to the hair, and it removes a good 90-95% of the hair on the first pull.  It actually seems less painful when I do it to myself because I am free to curse under my breath, prepare myself for each pull and take a deep breath, and because I can take my time between each strip.  However, I want to wax my legs, too, and those strips are not big enough nor plentiful enough to do both legs without spending a ton of money.  But if you just want to do brows, underarms and bikini line I recommend the strips for sure.  They are under $10 a box and work really well.  Learning to pull them off properly isn't as difficult as I imagined, because if you pull one off incorrectly once, believe me, you won't make the same mistake again.  you learn quickly under those circumstances!