No Picture Necessary

I just used that new Veet hair remover, the one you can use in a shower. On the commercial, there's this long-legged gal frolicking here and there and let's just say, if you're anything like me, one view of that commercial, and you'll buy into the scene, hook, line and sinker.

So I sat there tonight, on the couch. I sat there and saw the commercial again and remembered I bought some and ran upstairs thinking about this Sunday, Mother's Day, and how we'll be roller skating around Dooze's "outdoor roller rink" (it's really a giant painted parking area in front of her house with a big boom box sitting nearby) and how cute I'll be with pig tails and shorts and really smooth legs.

Newsflash: If you read the label carefully like I did, you'll read how you shouldn't go out in the sun for at least 24 hours or more after you apply the stuff. Worse, you can't reapply it within 72 hours, much less slather on some self-tanner any time soon.

And now that I'm out of the shower and I'm realizing it only worked in spots, truth be told, I'll have bearded legs by the time I can actually go out on the "rink" with my new roller skates, pig tails and shorts.

Such is the life of a 40-something wannabe roller derby queen.

I guess things could be worse. I suppose I could be that gal on that one divorce court show whose fake tooth flew out on national TV. Even worse, I suppose I could be sitting in the tub with a green mint mask on my face and musing about whether or not it's better to collect stamps, or coins.

Comments

[Renna]

And on a completely different note, I really like the new look of your header here. :-)

[setters]

ha - I put fake tan on today & when I mentioned it to a friend, she looked at my loegs, laughed & said you need to buy new fake tan!

bah for wanting to have lovely smooth golden legs!!

[Jane in London]

Stamps. They take up way less space (says she who has a collection of both: but the coins stay with my parents, because, really, my Father was the one to collect them in the first place).

Not that I've considered this for more than, oh, 5 seconds.

~x~

[nicole]

Yeah, I fall for the hair remover gel/foam/something every few years thinking how much cooler that would be than shaving. Except it never works. I don't know what kind of wimpy hair you need to have on your legs for the stuff to actually work, but really, my leg hair is though stuff, it's winter fur made to protect my delicate leg skin, I need a very sharp blade to shave it off.
Yeah, I'll stop now before I start thumping my chest and roaring ;-)

[Bobbi]

Thanks for sparing us the "bearded legs" photo! ;-)

[rudee]

I fall for all the make me beautiful ads too, hook, line and sinker. Thank you for the product review. I'll hang on to my razor.

[Deanna]

What about the "tan in a can"? What self-tanner really works without leaving streaks? I need to learn the proper technique I guess. I either use too much or too little. I, too, am hanging on to my razor.

[Rachel]

Coins...def coins. Too much licking involved in stamps. haha

[Wanett]

I fall for this last summer. No more. I'm sticking with the razor from now on. I'm with Nicole above, my leg hair is tough stuff :)

[Patty]

Wishing you a nice Mother's Day!

[Celeste]

Ha, just more reasons of why we lub ya!

Coins are so much better than stamps - for one you don't have to keep them in a consistent humidity. How ironic that I work with coins and don't own any.

[Hannah]

Oh, poor Wendy. I fell for the Nair a year ago and tried it out in the dorm showers...

I ended up with chemical burn on the backs of both knees. I think I'm allergic to it.

And it didn't remove a single hair, as far as I could tell. I'll stick to shaving, thanks.

[michelle]

Heh. I just want to know what "Frockling" means. Sounds fun! ;)

[Wendy]

It means to "frolic" (fixed it in the text)

[Rhonda the Stitchingnut]

Yup, at least you didn't have red blotches all over your legs for 3 days like I did from the burn I got from Nair years ago. Never again. Thank goodness my hair was light and now I even have less of it now that I'm over 50. Wish I didn't have to pluck it off my chin tho. *sigh*

[MonkeyGurrl]

Meh. Go hairy. Who cares? S'not like HWWV is gonna kick you to the curb. Besides, you'll be roller queen-ing like a dervish, so all anyone will see is a blur, anyway. :)

[Debbie]

Ha! That reminds me of when I tried to use that stuff as a teenager. It turned a couple of old scars into opens cuts...yep...ate right through the scar tissue, and gave me open gaping wounds....gross.
Apparently...I have sensitive skin...the delicate creature that I clearly am ;-P

[pixie]

Hey wendy, I went to the Maryland Sheep & Wool festival and the Tilli Tomas booth had some big photos with designers and their name and there was your name all big with your latest design using their yarn. It was neat to see, I was saying to my husband "oh I know her, I chat with her on e-mail sometimes". haha - I'm a nerd yes indeed. Congrats on all your success. I am waiting on the you-know-what, and will be excited when I can go get a copy :)

[Wendy]

So exciting, Pixie! I had no idea~!

[Bre]

I love that this is the first thing I'm commenting on in your blog... very tasteful of me.

Veet doesn't work very well at all for leg hair, but it does work fantastically for the, um, areas that some of us get nauseous at the thought of waxing. They tell you not to use it for that purpose. And you have to let it sit longer. Of course don't go brazilian if you have a bit of sense. But it WORKS. And is for very self-evident reasons better than shaving.

[Lizbon]

Ha! I knew those ads were too good to be true!

[Jeanette]

all that leg-hair remover stuff is awful. i remember using some of it when i was a young teenager. too scared to touch a razor, i opted for the "safe" cream. it ate through my skin! tons of tiny little holes in my legs. . . and tons of tiny scars after.

bre, you're bold to try it on your you-know.

[Bre]

I love that this is the first thing I'm commenting on in your blog... very tasteful of me.

Veet doesn't work very well at all for leg hair, but it does work fantastically for the, um, areas that some of us get nauseous at the thought of waxing. They tell you not to use it for that purpose. And you have to let it sit longer. Of course don't go brazilian if you have a bit of sense. But it WORKS. And is for very self-evident reasons better than shaving.

[Sally Villarreal]

Yeah, Veet didn't impress me either. I had the same thing with spots. Rubbing/scrubbing helps, but only so much.

[Yenni]

That stuff never worked for me either. It only worked in spots. I hate the smell for some reason too.
Makes me wonder what they do in the commercials..Probably had a wax and didn't use the stuff at all..