O.K. Ladies, nobody likes to talk about it, in fact I'm sure most of you get goose bumps down your arms just at the mention of the word. But, as the warm weather begins to sneak its cheerful head, most women start to frown at the thought of waxing their bikini lines.

Most women prefer to visit an aesthetician, which always leaves me baffled how seemingly shy women can strip down to their panties and endure such pain before a relative stranger, but, when the alternative is standing in front your bathroom mirror trying to muster up all the nerve to tear off that piece of cloth you rubbed onto your bikini line, a stranger seeing you in your panties can't be all that bad.

According to several aestheticians in the Toronto area, most women prefer waxing their bikini lines to shaving or electrolysis. Shaving can irritate the skin causing red bumps and usually grows back within a few days.

Electrolysis is permanent but can be quite expensive and not always practical, since with this procedure the hair follicle must be treated one at a time.

Waxing, on the other hand, allows the aesthetician to cover a fairly large area of skin all at once and hair usually takes from three to six weeks to grow back.

Sarah Shrigley is an aesthetician in Toronto who recommends waxing as a method of hair removal but warns there could be draw backs if the waxing is not done according to proper procedure.

"You have to watch out for ingrown hair," she says. Ingrown hairs occur when the hair does not break the skin and instead continues to grow inside. The ingrown hair normally looks like a red bump or pimple.


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