Bikini wax when you have your period - grim, yes?

I had to have a bikini wax before going on holiday earlier this month, and my dumb period came late so I was on. I just made sure I had just got out the shower (would anyway tbh), and erm, TMI, tucked the string in. I didn't have a Brazilian though, so she wasn't rumaging anywhere close by IYSWIM.

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Only the whole holiday. ?

I have just moved a bikini wax for next month but it is ALWAYS on my period gahhhhh!

A useful tip if you don't get your bum area waxed then you can tuck the string there...just a trick I learnt as I have awful paranoia that the wax will get stuck to the string and my tampon will fly out (I know I am weird!)

oh god please stop it, i am sitting at my desk tears streaming down my face laughing!

It's not grim if you just have a bikini wax and you keep your pants on, but I wouldn't get a brazillian done with I was on. My lady goes waaaaaaay too close ?

[really curious]so if you have a brazilian you take your knickers off and display your entire muff to the beautician?

i don't think i could look mine in the eye after she's seen my chuff, it's the same girl who does my nails. although admittedly half the LGI has seen my flange this year so why i'm suddenly all coy is anyone's guess

Haha!! I've also thought about the tampon flying out possibilities before! haha! I thought i was just me! I wouldn't have a wax while AF was here. I think i would just mess up my pill to prevent things!

I think it depends on the waxer, when I have mine done my knickers stay on and I just move them around as required (to the middle, and pulled down slightly).

Incidentally I have booked my next wax for when I know I'll have my period (timing thing) but I use a mooncup and knickers are never fully off so think I'll be OK (and will be at end of period).

No knickers and legs in the most un-modest positions! Hollywood- You might as well lay with your lets in the air! x haha!!

I go to a different place for my waxes so i don't get the embarrassment if i see her!

When I had a Brazilian recently, I kept my crackers on and just moved them around, so no clunge on show from me - well, except when she peers down my knickers at the end to make sure it's all even. ?

I've occasionally had a wax when I'm on, although I prefer not to. I have a Hollywood so it's pretty hard core ?. Having said that, I always wear the paper pants which she works around, go in freshly washed and use the salon baby wipes to have a final fresh-up of the entire area just before the wax. As a mooncup wearer, I think it's less grim than the possibility of tampon stringage ?

I would probably cancel...I've had it done at the very end of period and worn 2 pairs of knickers for good measure. My lady never takes off (my) pants, just shifts them around. Before my wedding, she did me a hollywood despite my protests, and still did it pants intact.

that's minge abuse!

I hate it when they make you keep your knickers on for a brazilian, they can't do it properly and its so awkward moving your pants around you may as well not bother, they see the lot anyway.

Its only happened to me once- House of fraser in Victoria. Apparently, in Westmninster you need a special licence for people to remove their clotehs on your premises- basically to stop brothels in Soho offering "massage" -they need a special massage licence. So the day before HOF had been raided by council offiicals (yes really) and when they discovered women were removing their knickers for waxes and they got slapped with a massive fine and a ban.

Ironically i ended up at a fab place in soho, where the woman is so through she practically ends up with her nose up your bum.

I never wax on a period, mine are heavy. In fact I've been having breakthrough bleeding for a few months now and am starting to resemble a 70s porn star down there!

I agree re your own knickers, but the paper pants are fine. My beautician is obviously a pant manipulation expert ?

Sure is ?

My lady gets you to take your knickers off, but you cover yourself with a towel and she works around it it, much easier than knickers! I prefer it done that way, all the shifting around and stuff!

Mine makes me take my pants off and she lays a towel accross me which we move around. In some positions we look like we're in the Karma Sutra ?

I've been going to the same girl for 6 years now. Knickers off, legs open to the right, open to the left, leg in the air, knee bent, bum up in the air if possible. We are kind of in a routine now, she simply taps my leg and I know what is expected of me next whilst chatting away.

I've never had a wax whilst on my period though, I too am scared of the tampon string incident.

This thread has been ever so insightful, and as a girl who often has doctors shove metal implements up her bum, I think a wax sounds far more invasive. Won't be booking one anytime soon, sorry Mr MF!

visions of a bunch of stuffy old councillors bursting into the waxing room to find a half nekkid lady on the table with her legs akimbo ?