How may of you here have used it? I use it on my legs and sure the smell sucks but my legs feel as smooth as when shave.
I used to use it, but the last time I got burn. Now I ether shave or wax. Depends on my mood.
Too much trouble, easier to just shave once a week or so for me.
I used it several times but I don't anymore. It just seems like a bad idea to put something on your skin that is so toxic. A couple of times I burned myself a little. Worst thing is it didn't last a month before my hair grew back like it claimed. Waxing and epilating gives me too many ingrown hairs. Shaving is easiest for me.
You have to really watch your times. If the instructions say to leave it on no more than 5 minutes, they mean it! Let me tell you, chemical burns hurt! When I got a burn on my chest that took several weeks to fade completely, I swore off the stuff; never again!
Also be very careful if you have any area of skin where you've applied topical steroid cream in the past (to treat a fungal patch, for example) - the skin will be thinner and can burn very badly.
I use the one for sensitive skin... and works amazingly good...
however, there was a time when I got curious and used it on my face. The thing burnt a layer of skin around my mouth. Was so embarrassing, that I had to use a tonne of concealer just to hide the scabs.
So lesson here is: DON'T PUT IT ON FACE!!!
Never ever ever let these products close to your eyes. They will blind you instantly.
I've using Nair on my legs and arms and shoulders. While the stench was nearly unbearable, it seemed very effective.
It burnt my arms, and played merry hell with my shoulders.
These days, I just shave. Once a week seems good enough for my legs, arms & shoulders.
Quote from: Padma on May 21, 2012, 01:06:10 AM
Also be very careful if you have any area of skin where you've applied topical steroid cream in the past (to treat a fungal patch, for example) - the skin will be thinner and can burn very badly.
Yikes...thanks for the heads-up on this!
Quote from: Adrasteia on May 21, 2012, 02:01:32 PM
Yikes...thanks for the heads-up on this!
I bled. It was no fun at all. That was the last time I used that stuff - and anyway, it's a really horrible chemical to be pouring into the water system every few weeks.
associated humor, a friend sent this on to me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)
I told her that I hated Veet since the time I used it, and looked like a Chernoble survivor.
Quote from: JulieC. on May 20, 2012, 01:58:22 PMIt just seems like a bad idea to put something on your skin that is so toxic.
You remind me of a news article I read the other day in which an expert said Americans are exposed to something like 30,000 different basic chemicals, but only a few hundred have
ever been tested for toxic effects on humans. In the US chemical companies have very little government regulation compared to the rest of the 1st world countries.
I'm trying it, I bought a larger sized bottle some months ago and have tried it twice, neither attempt was really successful, and I don't think I'll be buying another bottle of the stuff. But it's not that bad for me anyway, been trying it on my chest which worried me at first but besides some small burning it's okay and leaves me smelling nice. But I honestly think once I get a job I'll just wax or something much better.
The problem is I don't know how to get the even coating it says you need, I'm in a rush to put it on becasue I don't want burnt palms XDX
Wear plastic gloves, the disposable kind. It doesn't have to be that even BTW. I use it on my legs and arms every now and again. Don't wash it off, wipe it off and then shower. I do wipe it off in the shower cubicle and then soak myself in nice body wash. Moisturise after wards of course.
I used the stuff ages ago but the smell always gave me head aches, them I just realised it was easier to go to a salon and get then waxed, but I just shave them now, there is no mess and 5 minutes or less they done
Hi GhostTown11,
Like most that have posted here, I tried this once & never again. Not easy to spread evenly, probably ran some over 5 minutes, it was hit and miss on hair removal and some slight burning. I use Venus blade shaving legs.
Jamie
I have fair skin and light hair color and I cant imagine even using that stuff!
I just shave and thats not bad at all, nice and smooth in the morn but by late evening I can feel stuble on my legs...I can deal with that ;)
Went out with plenty of cis girls over the years whose legs felt like a bristle brush and I sure dont want to be like that, lol
I believe GhostTown11 left us. :'(
I may have used Nair once or twice in my life. I'm not really enamored of it. I don't like razors and resulting stubble either. I prefer exfoliation and mechanical epilation and waxing, when I can be bothered, like every 4 months. I think I may have clocked up 12 months once.
Just say no to any type of hair removal that is not FDA approved.
My experience with Nair:
On Tuesday (4 days ago) I was getting stubble on my chest, so decided to try out the bottle of Nair + lotion that I'd gotten "just for this occasion!" LOL
I read the instructions, it said apply it thickly, wait 3 minutes, wipe off a sample, if the hair comes off, wipe off the rest...if it doesn't, keep it on another 3 minutes, but no more than 10.
I split the difference, made it 5. At first it just felt like any other lotion. By 3 mins, it was starting to sting a little. At 5, I wiped it off, and most of the hairs came off with it.
I jumped into the shower, rinsed, soaped, scrubbed (lightly! ouch ouch ouch) and realized I'd just been chemical burned. (I've had those before, so I know what it feels like)
That evening my chest (especially the nipples) felt as if it had a medium-strength sunburn, and there was no relief for it. Next day, my shirt kept renewing the sense that I'd been sunburned...by the next evening (Wednesday, about 36 hours later), my chest was a lot less painful, but the nips were red and irritated.
Next morning (48 hours later) most of the pain/redness was gone. Today (Friday, 4 1/2 days later) there's no pain, no redness, and the hair is still gone. Not even stubble yet.
Would I use it again? Maybe, but probably not. There are times a razor isn't available (at least, not a sharp one), and Nair does seem to work. For me, 5 minutes may be too much on the chest, but waxing is no longer an option for me there. The stink is bad, though. Yuk!
I'll try to remember to update this when I start getting stubble again...see how long it lasts.
Ok, so it's Saturday morning now (about 4 days after applying Nair) I'm seeing very small stubble. It is soft, not like it was on T months ago. fwiw, shaving also was followed by soft hairs, so that's probably a function of E.
I'd say it's about comparable in performance to shaving. At least, in my case. Would I do it again, knowing this? Not anywhere near my nips!
Legs? Arms? Maybe. I'm not going to try it anytime soon, though, because I don't like the smell enough. Besides, I use conditioner to shave and it smells nice and leaves my skin very soft.
I used to use it, but started getting very irritated after I used it. I then moved onto epilating and now I'm onto lasers. The lasers trump everything else I've tried for removal.