When you have unwanted hair to remove, Veet Wax Strips can be quite handy. These cold wax products allow you to easily remove body hair without making a costly salon appointment for a professional hot wax. Read on for answers to some of the most common questions about these convenient grooming products.
Use Veet Wax Strips to smooth your face, underarms, legs and bikini area
What Are Wax Strips?
This hair removal system takes the idea of a hot salon wax and transforms it into a product that works for easy at-home use. It involves sheets of paper or fabric that come pre-loaded with a thin layer of wax. The idea is that a bit of body heat is enough to warm the wax sufficiently to catch and remove unwanted hair.
How Do They Work?
Veet Wax Strips come with a protective covering sheet so that the wax doesn't come off before you're ready to use it. With the protective cover still in place, rub the strip vigorously between your hands to warm it up.
Then, remove the protective cover and press the strip, wax side down, firmly against your skin in the direction of hair growth. Holding skin tight, tug firmly in the opposite direction of growth, and the wax should pull the hair out of the skin.
Waxing products from most brands come with a special soothing oil to apply to your skin afterward.
Where Do You Use Them?
Really, wax strips can be used anywhere that you have unwanted hair, but this at-home removal method is easier to use on some body parts than others. It's important to note that you have to let hair grow out a little before you'll be able to wax it. Wax strips usually adhere best to hairs that are at least two millimeters long.
Most brands make wax strips in a variety of sizes. Tiny ones are designed for use on your face. The upper lip is a great spot to wax at home. Eyebrows are doable, but it's easy to mess up, so you might want to leave that spot to the pros.
Fairly smooth and straight, legs and arms are perfect for waxing with large strips. Also decent candidates for waxing --particularly with small to medium strips -- are underarms and the bikini area. These spots have more bony curves and tricky spots to reach, though, so you might want to practice on your legs first.
One handy tip: If you need smaller strips to get into delicate spaces, Veet Wax Strips can easily be cut to size.
What Companies Make Them?
Sally Hansen Wax Strips come in For Body, $7.99, which features larger strips, as well as For Face, Brows and Bikini, $5.99, with smaller ones. The kits include soothing Azulene oil.
Veet Legs & Body Wax Strip Kit
Veet Wax Strips offer Legs and Body, $8, and Bikini, Underarms, and Face, $10, options.
Veet Botanic Inspirations Wax Strip Kit Hair Remover - Bikini, Underarms & Face
This brand claims to work on hair that's as short as 1.5 millimeters. Veet includes wipes to use after waxing.