surfgurl13
New Member
Hello all. I am new here to the forums, but not to the industry. I have been waxing for a while now and have sucessfully done several full brazilian waxes... until today.
My client came into the salon and asked for every bit of hair to be removed. Ok. No problem. (Or so I thought) I use hard wax 99% of the time and am comfortable with it, however, today was not looking good for me. Here is what happened.
When I reached the labia portion of the service I had the client place her leg into the number 4 position and noticed that all of the hair growth grew sideways into the center of the vaginal area. Normally it grows slightly upwards, or downwards, therefore giving me somewhere to "hold" while pulling, but this was straight towards the center. So I applied the wax with the hair growth, but when going to pull I really was at a loss for where to hold her so that I could pull out towards her leg. Is this making sense?
Well, the most horrific thing happened and as I was pulling out and stretching the skin the very thin inner labia skin TORE and she started bleeding!!! The bleeding did not subside and I went into a panic! Needless to say, the salon and I lost a client and she was highly upset and no doubt traumatized (as was I) by the entire episode. I did not make her pay and I doubt I will ever see her again. I was in tears for hours after this and can't even begin to fathom what allwent wrong.
PLEASE HELP. I guess my questions are these:
- Is that normal?!?!?
- How would you go about holding, stretching, and pulling SIDEWAYS on the labia?
- How can I prevent this from EVER happening in the future.
Thank you in advance!! I don't even want to walk into my salon again right now let alone do another Brazilian... this was SO AWFUL and I feel HORRIBLE to say the least!!
My client came into the salon and asked for every bit of hair to be removed. Ok. No problem. (Or so I thought) I use hard wax 99% of the time and am comfortable with it, however, today was not looking good for me. Here is what happened.
When I reached the labia portion of the service I had the client place her leg into the number 4 position and noticed that all of the hair growth grew sideways into the center of the vaginal area. Normally it grows slightly upwards, or downwards, therefore giving me somewhere to "hold" while pulling, but this was straight towards the center. So I applied the wax with the hair growth, but when going to pull I really was at a loss for where to hold her so that I could pull out towards her leg. Is this making sense?
Well, the most horrific thing happened and as I was pulling out and stretching the skin the very thin inner labia skin TORE and she started bleeding!!! The bleeding did not subside and I went into a panic! Needless to say, the salon and I lost a client and she was highly upset and no doubt traumatized (as was I) by the entire episode. I did not make her pay and I doubt I will ever see her again. I was in tears for hours after this and can't even begin to fathom what allwent wrong.
PLEASE HELP. I guess my questions are these:
- Is that normal?!?!?
- How would you go about holding, stretching, and pulling SIDEWAYS on the labia?
- How can I prevent this from EVER happening in the future.
Thank you in advance!! I don't even want to walk into my salon again right now let alone do another Brazilian... this was SO AWFUL and I feel HORRIBLE to say the least!!