OH GOD. What is happening. I tried some of this very short hair removal cream just now. Left it 5 mins and scraped it all off as instructed. But a couple of minutes after my skin is feelinf very tingly. When I got into the shower, all the hair the cream had touched started coming out. Luckily only my legs. My skin started rejecting rhe long hair. What do I do?

What product is this?

I'm a bit confussed. Didn't you put the hair removal cream on so the hair will fall out?

Quote from: Jason_S on January 22, 2013, 10:18:07 AM
OH GOD. What is happening. I tried some of this very short hair removal cream just now. Left it 5 mins and scraped it all off as instructed. But a couple of minutes after my skin is feelinf very tingly. When I got into the shower, all the hair the cream had touched started coming out. Luckily only my legs. My skin started rejecting rhe long hair. What do I do?

Sounds as if you are using a depilatory.  Just rinse it off thoroughly.

Did you follow the directions on the label?

Its veet hair removal cream. Its supposed to work well on short hair. But I think it worked too well. My skin still feels tingly. Its ultra smooth which is nice but it scared me half to death when tge really long hairs started falling out.

Where did you apply it?

Just my legs, from ankle to thigh. Except a little bit of it splashed up when I slipped and landed on my tummy. Which I haven't shaved at all yet. Then it just started falling out.

Wow ... I tried that product a few times and it has absolutely no affect on me - and I left that on for 15 minutes. Even while on HRT - no effect at all - just some red itchy skin that was fine in a few hours time.

My skin is very abnormal I think. Its unbelievably absorbent and my hairs are very fine.

Surely you want all the hair on those places to fall out?

What are you upset about it?

Err... that's a good thing right? I guess I mean the skin should be fine - are there any burns or itchy skin or rashes after using it?

Its not the hair really. Its the extreme pain in my legs. Ahhh it hurts so muxh.

Ahh it feels like someone just pulled out all my hair with tweezers.

Oh someone needs a big cuddle.

Put some moisturizer or similar onto the legs.

I already did. It made it worse.  I think its easing off a bit now. Next time I should take painkillers beforehand. My legs are completely numb now. *cries* it burns as well.

It's a chemical. If you leave it on too long, it can burn. I used to use nair, but started epilating and never looked back.

Veet and Nair can cause pain if your skin is sensitive.  My sister can't use it because it causes a lot of pain for her and occasionally turns her skin red.  I have used it in the past and only had mild irritation so I switched the Sensitive Skin formula and only kept it on for the allotted time.  It helped a lot and was no longer irritating my skin.  I no longer use it for obvious reasons, but I'd say try the Sensitive Skin formula or maybe not use it at all.

Phew. It seems to have numbed off a bit. I can't put qnything on though yet, very embarrassing.
I think I'll try waxing instead. I don't think it could be any worse than that .

I've heard good things about epilators.

Well thats quite fortunate. I got a bottle of sensitive hair removal cream as well. I'll use that from now on.