muse

I am convinced there is some magical method to leg waxing that I don’t understand. I know so many women who can buy those little drug store kits and seem to have no problem with this shaving alternative. For me, I end up making a huge mess of the bathroom, getting wax all over the floor and the bathmats and the counters. It takes me at LEAST 30 minutes to do just one leg, and just the lower half at that. In reality, I never even get that far, because after 20 minutes I am sweating and swearing and in great discomfort, and I feel like I need to do an Alice in Wonderland-style snakenecked impression just to have a prayer of defuzzing the backs of my calves. So I give up, obey the “24 hour” rule, and two days later I go back grumbling and attempt the whole process again, usually with little further progress, until I give up and decide it is “good enough.” What is the secret, I ask? How am I supposed to pull this off? Maybe I’m not. Maybe I’m just destined to shave my legs every week for the rest of my life. I can’t believe I’ve been so thoroughly unmanned (unwomaned?) by a box of white-chocolate scented putty-like goo …

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