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Just when you thought that there wasn't enough stupid crap in the universe to worry about. Now a medicore depilitory product wants to convince me that I have the ability to prune my bush in all sorts of amusing and naughty shapes in the privacy of my own home.
Let me start off with listing all of the reasons why this is a monumentally bad idea.
1) This is a very sensative area of the body. Most women experience at least some pain when undergoing a bikini wax done by a professional. Do you honestly think that they're going to have the stomach to rip out large hunks of their pubic hair on their own. If you think pulling off a bandaid is painful...
2) Again, because this is a sensative area, it is easy to cause injury. Even if this is a non-heat product, waxing is not something easy to master. You can easily tear the skin. This is NOT an area on the body to risk doing that.
3) To do a proper Brazilian wax, you not only have to remove the hair from the outer area of the groin. I can testify from personal experience that you get waxed all over, including down the crack of your ass. Is this something that anyone can manage to do at home? If you don't remove everything, you end up looking neatly prune on top but with massive undergrowth the instant you open your legs.
Bikini waxing should come with the same disclaimer we see on stupid stunts on TV -
"DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS!"
