Hi,
I am really at my wits' end when it comes to hair removal in my bikini line. From the time I was about 14 or 15, I shaved it regularly. I used to get a little itchy for a day and have the occasional ingrown hair, but nothing major.
From the time I was about 20 I started waxing instead as I had started to get some more ingrowns and waxing just worked better for me. I even did brazilian waxes without major problems.
But over the last few years, I have had such dramas. No matter whether I shave, wax or use hair removal cream, I get really nasty bumps the next day. The itchiness iss maddening. I also get some really nasty huge ingrowns and they last for about a month (by which time I am overdue for another shave).
Seriously, this looks much worse than a hairy bikini line. I even considered just letting it grow. But I am quite hairy down there and it makes me really self-conscious.
It probably sounds silly, but I am German, and I really don't want to spread the stereotype that German women don't shave (which is untrue, by the way).
I can't afford laser hair removal.
I shave my underarms and legs without any problems. I do get some slightly ingrown hair there occasionally, but nothing to worry about.
I know its not the same area but I used to get ingrown hairs when I waxed my eyebrows and upper lip until I started using nads ingown hair solution...I just got it from the supermarket.
Have you tried anything like that?
Thanks for your reply. I have once used something like that. Not sure what the brand was. Possibly skin doctors something or other? They were moist wipes. But firstly they didn't seem to work and secondly were really quite expensive. I will give this Nads stuff a try if can find it.
Thanks again.
Wax.
Go home, cold shower or bath. And use NOTHING on them for 48 hours - no creams, lotions, soaps, powders, ingrown solutions - nothing.
Just cold showers til the pores close again and the swelling (heat) goes down.
It is the only thing that has worked for me - I am a newly converted waxer - forever shaved and used creams and always the ingrown, red rashy looking stuff - always. The last 2 times been waxed, done the above and NO ingrowns. NO rash. NO itch. Nothing. Even in Perth sweaty heat.
That's what I used to do. But it doesn't work anymore. I have had it waxed professionally and waxed it myself. Used to work well. Didn't even have any swelling or irritation. Until about 4 years ago.
I have to add that my skin has changed quite a bit in the last years. I got pustular psoriasis on my hands and feet about 5 years ago. Quite badly. It has almost disappeared now. But my skin is way more sensitive than it used to be. Suddenly react to wearing earrings. After 15 years of wearing even the cheapest earrings without any problems, suddenly I react to even the medicinal ones and gold and silver ones, too.
I also get dermatitis under my rings. I no idea what's going on and if I go to the doctor, they only ever give me steroid creams. They don't care about figuring out the cause.
I know that it's not easy with skin conditions.
A bit OT: I have seen a dermatologist a few years back about my psoriasis. Not that it did much. Funnily enough, it seemed to get worse in early pregnancy, but during the third trimester it cleared up. I have since been pregnant or breastfeeding and it never came back. Isn't that odd? no idea whether there is a connection...
Hair Removal Dilemma (bikini line)!!!
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