Underarm shugaring
Epilation is a hair removal with the obligatory destruction of the hair follicle, which allows you to enjoy smooth skin for 2 to 4 weeks. Depilation is a superficial removal of hairs, more precisely, their bodies by means of a razor or a special cream. After depilation, hair grows almost instantly and enjoy perfect skin for no longer than a day using a razor and no more than a week - high-quality cream. Underarm shugaring is one of the most affordable and quickest methods for removing hair by the root, but its “sweet” name is not associated with candies at all.
Useful tips on depilating the armpit zone and removing unwanted hair from the master shugaring see in the next video.
Features
Epilation with sugar paste is of two types - bandage and manual, or classical. The first method resembles waxy hair removal: a slightly melted paste is put on the skin with a spatula, a paper strip on top, it is pressed against the skin and torn off by the hair growth. The second technique - manual, found the most widely used. A tight plastic mass is applied to the skin area, it is distributed by the movements of the fingers against the growth of the hair, and then removed with jerky movements according to their growth.
Modern masters often use the manual method of sugar hair removal, because the plastic mass follows the contours of the female body well (especially in the bikini and underarms) and evenly captures hairs. Additional features possessed by this technique:
- It allows you to remove any hairs from the root: soft, hard, thin, thick, straight, curly. The only condition is that their length must be at least half a centimeter and not exceed 1.2-1.5 cm, otherwise the hairs will have to be cut;
- Sugar paste can be purchased at the store or do it yourself;
- This method of hair removal use for any area of the body - on the face, bikini, armpits, legs, arms, stomach, back;
- An unpleasant feature is that For armpit hair removal, you will have to grow hair from one and a half to two weeks;
- A nice bonus will be their rpalm from 2 to 4 weeks;
- After it do not use deodorant for about a day;
- Each re-treatment requires growing the hairs again;
- They grow each time getting thinner, because after each removal the structure of the hair follicle is broken;
- The armpit area is very sensitive., and after the procedure of removing hair with sugar, the skin may ache;
- But even women with high sweating say that after shugaring cease to “smell sweet” even after hard work;
- Underarm shugaring takes 15-20 minutes plus some preparation time;
- He has several contraindications, but among them there is no period of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Comparison before and after
Illustrative examples make it possible to make sure that the armpit shugaring really works. After it, the skin is soft, uniform color (after a decline of irritation), without black dots - hair roots. In addition, sweating becomes less noticeable - the “fragrance” does not pursue a woman everywhere, and sweat droplets do not linger on the hairs because the latter are simply not on the skin. Smoothly shaved armpits, as well as the bikini area, give extra confidence to the woman.
Training
The procedure begins with hair regrowth - the armpits will not have to be shaved before shugaring for a week or two and a half, and this is a rather long term. It is especially difficult to force yourself to endure it the first time. The rest of the hair growth period will be less tolerant since they will grow thinner. The optimal hair length is 0.5 - 0.8 cm, the maximum is 1.2 cm. Probably, not every woman measures hair with a ruler and waits for the “X” day, but usually this length is reached in 10-14 days.
To prepare for the procedure will help scrub - make it an hour and a half before the procedure in the cabin or immediately before, if you spend it at home.
How to do?
Underarm sugaring is a simple procedure and is often performed at home.
- Wipe the skin with a disinfectant composition - Miramistin, hydrogen peroxide or alcohol (up to 70 degrees).
- Separate a small sugar ball from the total mass and mash in your hand.
- Raise your hand up and pull the skin of your armpits with your palm - this will apply the mass evenly. Put the sugar ball on the skin against the hair growth, spread it with your fingers - roll on it and grab the hairs.
- Roll the ball on a small section of 2-3 cm within 3-5 seconds and sharply remove against hair growth.
- You can take a more or less large piece of sugar mass and apply to a wide area of the armpit, roll it, and tear off from the body in small parts, so as not to be painfully painful.
- Epilation itself will require courage - you have to dramatically tear off the sugar massThis is exactly where the secret of perfectly smooth armpits lies.
Typically, hair removal lasts 10-15 minutes - this time, taking into account the application of paste, its rolling, felting and removal. If you add here attempts to self-pity and postponing the case for an indefinite period, you can spend a whole day.
To make hair removal on your own, it is necessary to apply the product on previously cleaned and dry skin - powder it with talcum powder or baby powder - armpits will stop sweating from excitement, and hairs will escape sugar paste.
How long does the effect last?
Usually, one hair removal procedure lasts for 2 weeks of perfectly smooth armpits. Add here the time of hair regrowth - 10-14 days before the next procedure. When deciding how often you can make a shugaring, you should take into account the individual characteristics of hair growth - they grow slower and lighter in blond beauties, so they can repeat it 30-40 days after the first procedure.
Persons with Oriental roots suffer from increased growth of dark hair, so they will have to go to the second procedure of shugaring earlier for about a week.
Effects
Why does skin hurt?
The hair follicle is in contact with the nerve endings in the skin cells, when it is unceremoniously pulled out, we feel pain. Pain continues after the procedure, as the integrity of the skin is broken, because it is known that the hair root is larger than the hole (pores) through which it passes.
After shugaring, be sure to use a fat or healing cream - it will reduce pain, accelerate the healing of microcracks and relieve discomfort. Those who complain of pain after sugar hair removal, probably forgot to put on the armpit cream.
Irritation
Red spots - the inevitable companion of hair removal. After the removal of a hair from its “lair”, the secretion of sebum increases - a normal protective reaction of our dermis to an irritant - sugar paste. When sebum enters the open pores, irritation begins - the epidermis turns red and becomes covered with a rash. The timely use of a special cream after epilation or any other (baby, fat, mixture of vegetable oils) allows you to fill the "bare" areas - the pores, enhance the natural cell regeneration and accelerate healing. Therefore, any cream reduces the risk of irritation (if it does not have time to “recover”) or nullifies it after some time.
We are not talking about exact numbers, when the irritation subsides, the pain disappears and it becomes easier because each skin is individual - it takes a different amount of time to heal: 5-10 minutes is enough for someone, 24 hours for the other, and two days for the third.
Aftercare
After shugaring of the armpits, the integrity of the skin and the natural pH balance are disturbed - the keratinous (upper, “dead”) cell layer is removed, the sebum production increases, in general, the skin is under stress. It is necessary to normalize its balance and to establish exchange processes, to provide additional care and care.
What exactly to do:
- After home shugaring, apply a moisturizing or nourishing cream.. Any nursery or pharmacy will do: "Panthenol", "Bepanten", "Boro Plus", "Rescuer", "Malavit"
- Wear cotton clothes and exclude synthetics, any friction of the skin.
What is not recommended:
- Take a shower and perform any water treatment for 2-3 hours after the procedure. Ideally, do not contact with water for 12-24 hours;
- Sunbathe. Postpone the trip to the solarium and the beach will have no less than 3 days.
- Sweat profusely. We'll have to postpone sports and outdoor activities for a day. Modern masters say that after shugaring the armpits, you can literally immediately go to the gym, but this can be done if you absolutely do not feel sorry for the irritated, bare and painful skin.
- Use deodorant for 12 hours.
How old can you do?
Puberty occurs at the age of 10-14 years - each girl has an individual process and the beginning is not always predictable. The first fluffy hairs in the armpits appear just with the beginning of maturation of the young lady and entail the constraint to raise hands or lead an active lifestyle, because it leads to the appearance of an unpleasant smell.
Experts say that the first epilation is recommended when the girl feels discomfort - the hair in the armpit frankly prevent her from living. When they become noticeable to others - another reason to remove them using any method, including shugaring underarms. In a word, shugaring can be done at least 10, at least 15, at least 20 years old - age does not play a big role. For the procedure to be comfortable and as painless as possible, there must be a real desire to get rid of hairs.
Contraindications
Shugaring is a safe procedure, but it is far from always permitted. A visit to a beautician will have to be postponed if there are the following problems:
- For violations of the integrity of the skin - abrasions, cuts, bruises, ulcers.
- Burns including a small degree and sunny. It is worth refusing epilation, even if you overheated in the sun yesterday and the skin of the armpits reddened noticeably.
- For herpes. Symptoms of the disease will be small sores, crusts and vesicles.
- For skin diseases - dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis. Only a dermatologist can make a diagnosis in the right; he also gives permission for shugaring in the future.
- With fungal diseases and infections.
- With varicose veins 3-4 steps.
- With diabetes.
- With epilepsy and other serious diseases of the nervous system.
- With a tumor - benign or malignant.
Underarm sugaring can be done during pregnancy while breastfeeding.
Reviews
About this procedure, hair removal, almost all 100% of positive reviews. Women say that this method of hair removal allows you to get rid of them for 2 weeks or more, and the more often the procedure is carried out, the less often you have to repeat it, they note. This is true; after the first removal, hair grows less rigid and black, and after 4 and 5, it loses its saturated natural pigment.
Girls with unsuccessful experience shugaring armpits say that they were covered with a small network of pimples. Classical inflammation or pustules - the result of improper follow-up care.Women note that the procedure itself shugaring the armpits is more or less painless, the consequences themselves and the pain of the armpits of the skin for the next few days are unpleasant.
If we talk about the result, they are satisfied with the majority - the skin remains smooth, on average, for 2 weeks. Someone first hairs grow after 7-10 days, but they are easy to pull out with tweezers - they are thin and almost colorless. Those same black axillary hairs usually grow 2-3 weeks after the procedure, then they have to be grown and shugared again.
Women consider the period of hair growth to be the most unpleasant - 2 weeks. At this time, they are pursued by an unpleasant smell (often even a deodorant does not cope with it, only a shower 2-3 times a day, especially in summer).