Warm-weather fashions make smooth, sleek skin essential from head to toe-and the first step to achieving that radiant look is to remove unwanted hair.
Among the most popular ways to de-fuzz and de-fluff: waxing, sugaring and shaving. All, as you’ll see, have their plusses and minuses.
Of the three, waxing is the longest-lasting temporary hair removal technique, with results that last two to eight weeks, but the process-applying warm wax to pull hair out from the roots-can be extremely painful. And while it’s one of the most popular solutions for removing hair on the upper lip and side of the face, it’s not recommended for the chin area.
Sugaring, a somewhat less known (and less painful) alternative, involves using slightly warmed sugar applied only to the hairs themselves and not the roots. And shaving, of course, needs no explanation.
But the 22 million women who remove unwanted facial hair have found that removing hair on the face is not as easy as the rest of their body. Olympic gold-medal swimmer Janet Evans, known for her athletic prowess and good looks, was one of them until she minimized the problem by using Vaniqa, the...