I told Rachel abt this and she was also very eager to go buy and try because she also has the same problem as me. So, both of us went to Watsons individually after work and bought the wax strips on the same day........that was a mistake.....
When I went home that night, sis and I were so excited to try the strips. After my bath, my sis helped me with it..and the FIRST pull of the wax strip was.......................PAINFUL!!!!!!!!......... and NONE of the hair came off!!! Agghh...the instructions said that there would be "NO STICKY RESIDUE" & my whole armpit was DAMN STICKY. You can even see the thick transparent glue! ... we panicked so immediately pulled out the instructions to read carefully. It said to rub the strip before applying for about 20 secs, which we did not! So my sis rubbed on it..and we tried again....and the SECOND PULL...DAMN PAINFUL........abt 2 hairs come off! :( :( I was screaming like hell..it was sooo sticky...and painful....i felt my skin was coming off! Then we thought it was not warm enough..so she rubbed longer..for about 1 minute or more..and tried again..the instructions also said that you must rub on it when you apply and then pull of quick and immediately after rubbing. But it was soooo sticky that you cant even pull it off at one go! I was SCREAMING AND SCREAMING ....the THIRD Time..STILL NO HAIR CAME OFF!! My skin was REDDISH AND SWOLLEN...very numb and painful!! I cannot take it anymore..and still super dupa sticky!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot put down my arm because my armpit would stick together!!! And when I raise my arm again, it would hurt...#(%*@(*^#_(*^%^( very stupid and silly i know! Hmmph~~
Then, my sis tried on her legs..and it worked out fine!!! No sticky residue and all the hair came off, leaving a nice "bald" patch! Hmmph~~~ The package of the wax strips DID say you can use it on the armpit and there was a picture of it showing it as well.!!! Why why why!?!? We gave up trying but we had no ways to remove the glue!!!! Even when I went to the bathroom and used soap TWICE...it didnt come off one bit!!! When I dried that area with my towel, the towel stuck to my armpit!!! Hahaha.. I know it is funny..embarrassing to blog here also but who cares. :P
Finally, my mum thought of olive oil!! My sis immediately helped me apply and we removed it with the alcohol wipe..and it was super painful!!! got the tingling feeling...cos my skin was alrdy hurt and injured! After cleaning up everything, it was no longer sticky! Thanks to mum! But she thought abt it after TOO LONG! Agghh! Then i wrapped an ice with the towel to ice that area for abt 20 minutes...damn painful la...wat a stupid incident lor!
I couldnt wear rough material the next day to work, or even sleeveless..and I had a hard time moving my right arm. Cannot anyhow move also..
When I saw rachel online, I greeted her immediately...and it goes like this..
Me: Hi Rac, Morning!
Rac: Morning! It was a disaster this morning!!!
Me: Why?
Rac: U noe the wax strips we were talking abt?
Me: ya..why?
Rac: I bought it and used this morning and it says "NO STICKY RESIDUE" so I used it before coming to work today and super sticky!! Cannot remove from my armpit!!!
Me: hahahaa...lol! Me too!!! I used last night..super sticky!! Painful man!
Rac: Ya!!! I cannot remove, not evne with soap!
Me: ya lor...stupid la..i washed with soap twice even!
Rac: Then I use my nails to scrap...then bleed a bit lor..kaoz..still a bit sticky.
Me: Wa liew..why u scrap..u should've called me ma...I use olive oil..but at first also cannot..then now swollen and reddish lor..
Rac: How i know ar??!
Me: I felt like I had an operation last night lor!
Rac: My operation was this morning!!
Hahahaa..super funny...I couldnt keep my laughter inside me when i was chatting with her that morning. I wonder whether my colleague sitting in front of me was wondering what I was laughing abt. :P
We are two stupid girls lar...damn funny! Stupidiest and funniest thing...never gonna use it on any other hairy areas except for the legs!
I'm gonna buy Epilator for my armpit! yeah! (Don't worry, I have tried it a few times cos my sis has one!)
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Got another stupid thing..it happened last friday around 5pm.
I was in the office and wanted to make some mini instand noodles to eat before my night class.
After putting the noodles in the cup, I wanted to open the curry flavouring. Usually i would take the corner of it and shake and swing to move all the curry powder to one side so that I can cut open the corner without spilling any powder on the table.
So I swing and swing and swing...swing swing swing..then suddenly, the corner of the packet was torn and the opened packet flew towards the direction behind the water dispenser, leaving the torn packet corner on my right hand. -_______-" LOlx....
Joy came over to see wat was going on..and we laughed while looking for the opened packet but it was nowhere to be seen! While searching, I saw a silver greyish thing behind the box under the circuit board, and I thought that is it. So I leaned forward to check but it was not and as I moved away, I knocked onto the circuit board! Then joy was searching my area and suddenly she exclaimed, "THERE! I saw it!" (pointing to the grey thing also) Then I said "No, it is not..just now i also thought so!" She leaned forward to take a look and she knocked her head on the circuit board too!! Hahah..Omg..she "OUCH!" and we laughed like mad...then we called Desmond to come over to help move some of the things so we can check where is it. All three of us searched but it just disappeeared!!! Really strange! dunno where it went to! Then he saw the grey thing again!!! and he tot that is the opened packet!!! he leaned forward...and both joy and I shouted "Careful ur head!!!"...hahaha..he didnt knock onto the board this time la. -__-""" All cheated by that thing!! agghh!
When Wikhiang came over to eat some snacks..I told him abt the whole thing and he couldnt stop laughing! He too, cannot find the packet!!!! Agjgjg....driving us all nuts!!! Even til now..so we left it...wait to see if there are ants or any insects or discovery by anyone next week ba..:P
Hehee...that's all..i am a silly girl..
