THE POLL OF ALL RANDOM

[nny]

Many of the Welsh are convinced that no one knows they exist, in my experience. Maybe I should have included Catherine Zeta-Jones in my poll? Also, I have a gash on the back of my leg. THIS IS ALL THE EXPLANATION YOU GET!

[Poll #1162432]

Comments

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Answers calibrated for a fairly decent pain tolerance.

[lazulus]

Morning, Nny!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Good morning! How're you? Do you have the sun? I appear to have misplaced it. :D

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I totally have one of those, I think. I enjoy getting pierced, if that's any indication...

:D

[lazulus]

We have a slither of sun peeking out from the dreary clouds. Shall I send you the OS coordinates so you can go find it?

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I'd rather come to your place and see if it's still there when I get there. :D

There should be a Londonmoot. Somepoint.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I don't know, how long have you lived in Cardiff?

Wax is fun! Well, candle-wax is fun. Ripping hair out in any way is never fun. And I wear jeans constantly so I honestly don't see the point. Also I never get all of it and there's this icky residue and they never put enough of those cleaning-towelette things in the box. I only tried it once and that's what I get :P

[lazulus]

Yes! There really should be. I was thinking just that the other day, oddly enough. :)

I shall think on't and try adn work out some dates to check with other peeps. :)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't wax my legs if I didn't have to, but I have to; I can't shave them any more. Years ago I developed an intolerance to the least bit of stubble on my legs; causes me to itch and then to scratch them until I bleed. So I wax. Waxing is not painful. A little stingy moment that you get used to really fast. (Just try not to wax during your period; your skin is really sensitive those first few days.) But waxing is ANNOYING. You need a free hour, a room warm enough and large enough to sit around in naked, a towel to mess up, and a shower afterward. I would much rather just zip a razor over my legs in the shower each time. But I just can't. I've scratched enough to give myself a staph infection, once.

I can still shave my armpits, and I do. Waxing the armpits is really miserable for me--I tried it to see, but the skin's really painfully sensitive after, and you have to let it grow out enough to do it in the first place. All sorts of negatives.

DON'T use actual wax, by the way--use water-soluble waxing products that have sugar as their prime ingredient. If you use actual wax you need baby oil to remove the residue and you will still find bits of wax on your legs, picking up lint, for three days after, and the wax won't come out of the towel easily (or anything else it drips on). Always make sure you get the water-soluble kind; you'll thank me.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

I went to the waxer as an experiment awhile ago for my legs and bikini line, and I actually sort of enjoyed it. I took an OTC painkiller ahead of time, and it wasn't painful at all. It was just a nice chat, warm wax, and then weeks of nice, bare skin before time to do it again.

Except in the winter, it's totally not worth it, so I've gone back to shaving (only occasionally), but I will totally go back to the waxer once the weather starts to get nice again, because shaving daily is inefficient and boring and wretched.

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

I'm happily single and I wear neither skirts nor tank tops. I don't see why I should have to shave anything.

Plus I don't have very fine hair, so waxing is just torture that doesn't even work.

[indybaggins.livejournal.com]

I use one of those epilate machines on my legs and armpits. I've been doing it for years so the pain is quite minimal, and the results are awesome. I only have to do it once ever three weeks or so on my legs, once every week on my armpits. The hair that grows back is soft, fine and blonde.

Also, *waves* hi! I have friended you. This might be the strangest introduction comment ever.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

"I was aware of Cardiff before Torchwood."

Given my great-grandfather, grandfather and father were born there, er, yeah. Though possibly rather depressingly I'd not actually registered that *you* live there (sowwy). Ages since I went there though, think I was about 7, really need to come back and see the place again :)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Manchester stole it, apparently, the sods *gazes out at dull grey gloom*

[mindcut.livejournal.com]

That totally depends how hard you get poked in the eye!

And the painfulness and difficulty also depend on the area which you intend to wax. Legs and armpits are easy.