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On today's Macro Beauty, we follow Bre who will be getting a full Brazilian wax and a vajacial (vagina facial) for the first time. Her esthetician Amanda at The Honey Pot Lounge in LA (@thehoneypotlounge) shares how she achieves a smooth, hairless, and healthy wax and vajacial.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Meet the Client
1:03 Getting a Brazilian Wax
4:44 Getting a Vajacial
8:22 One Week Later

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Transcript
00:00This!
00:05Oh sh**! That was my butt.
00:07That was my butt.
00:14Hi there, I'm Bri and today I'm getting a vajaycial.
00:18A vagina facial.
00:21Two words you don't hear together quite often.
00:24But vajaycials have become more and more popular as a solution for ingrown hairs
00:29and skin exfoliation for people who wax their lady business.
00:35I'm excited to try this treatment to see if it lives up to all the hype it's been getting.
00:39But first things first, I have to get a wax, which I've never done before
00:45and I'm going for a full Brazilian.
00:48I would like to think I can handle the pain well, but I don't have high hopes for that.
00:54But I'm putting all my trust and my esthetician Amanda here at the Honey Pot Lounge in LA
01:00to guide me through my first wax.
01:03Hi! How are you?
01:05I'm good, how are you?
01:06Good, nice to see you again.
01:08Nice seeing you too.
01:09So what exactly is a full Brazilian wax?
01:12Full Brazilian is everything in the front and everything in the back, in between the cheeks.
01:16But pretty much it's everything, bare and clean.
01:19Why are we doing the wax and the vajaycial on different days?
01:23So because your skin is going through so much on the first, like with your first wax,
01:28it's best to not use chemicals and enzymes on the same day, which I do use in my vajaycials.
01:34It can burn, it can leave chemical burn.
01:36So we'd rather just let your skin rest for a full 24 hours before we get into the vajaycial.
01:40So that's why we went ahead and did the wax yesterday, just to give your skin some time to calm
01:43down.
01:44And now we're going to do the vajaycial today.
01:45And that wax was definitely an experience.
01:50Breathe out.
01:52It's better when you talk through it.
01:54Oh! Oh!
01:55That was my foot.
01:56So when we started off, I told you like my pain tolerance was really low.
02:01And so you brought the numbing spray.
02:03Yes.
02:04So I like to use a numbing spray just to kind of take the sting out of it.
02:07It helps a little bit for people with low pain tolerance.
02:09It just sits on for a couple of minutes and then we get started.
02:12Let's start with some numbing.
02:12It's going to be a little cold, okay?
02:13Okay.
02:16You can use the whole bottle.
02:17Go ahead.
02:18Right.
02:19The thing is also that got me was how relaxing the wax felt at first.
02:26Because it was just so warm.
02:28And then I'm like, okay, this is like, this feels good.
02:31So my guard was really down.
02:33It's so soothing.
02:35You know, it feels nice until I rip it from your...
02:38From your vagina.
02:39From my vagina.
02:41And then you put the strip on.
02:43Then you rip it off.
02:44And you ripped off God Boy off.
02:46And I was like, oh my God.
02:48This is like fire.
02:51Oh, .
02:53Oh my God.
02:55Right?
02:56I think it was because I wasn't expecting it.
02:58I feel like with your first time you don't know what to expect.
03:00Yeah.
03:01So it's always really dramatic, your first reaction.
03:06But I feel like after that, the first, we kind of, it got a little bit better, right?
03:10I did.
03:10You knew what to expect.
03:11I did.
03:11So much.
03:13Okay.
03:13That was okay.
03:15And then once you switched to the hard wax, that was even better because like you said,
03:21it doesn't stick to the skin, but also where you were doing it is a lot more sensitive
03:25of an area.
03:26Right.
03:26So do you usually, like, is that a routine where you usually switch in between waxes or
03:31do you do that kind of based on your clientele?
03:34I do it based on my clientele.
03:35I'm really, I work really, really well with both waxes, but I love the results of the soft
03:41wax more.
03:41As you notice on the outer labia part, we have to go in a little bit and kind of pick
03:46up more with the soft wax because the hard wax, for some reason, doesn't pick up the finer,
03:51softer hairs.
03:52It picks up the coarse, hard to get hairs, which we want.
03:55That's kind of the difference.
03:56Yeah.
03:57With the soft and the hard.
03:58You cleaned up with a tweezer.
04:00We did that as well.
04:01And I never, I didn't even know you could put tweezers down there because I just assumed
04:06it already hurts when you're using it on your eyebrows.
04:08So I never thought using it on your lady parts.
04:12Yeah.
04:12So, I mean, you know, we have crevices, we have like little parts, you know, and you can
04:16only use, you can only go over the skin so many times with wax.
04:18So I'm very detailed, but I like to tweez just to get the best results.
04:23Yeah.
04:23This looks amazing.
04:25I feel really clean.
04:28I feel just like super smooth and neat and tidy.
04:32And I don't know, there's just something about getting a nice, clean wax that makes me
04:38just feel more like complete compared to shaving.
04:43So something I was kind of nervous about was just us not really knowing each other at all.
04:49And then coming in and just showing you my vagina.
04:51It's just my most intimate part of my body.
04:54Do you ever have a situation where you have clients that might feel really reluctant or
04:59just scared to just bust open naked and be like, here you go.
05:04I do get some nervous clients, but I just let them know like, hey girl, it's just you
05:09and me in here.
05:09I'm not going to remember anything, what your vagina looks like, anything.
05:13I'm just strictly looking at the hair and I have the same lady parts you do.
05:18No judgment ever.
05:19Let's just get this done.
05:20You know?
05:21Yeah.
05:21It's more so like a job to do.
05:23We're both in this together.
05:24Let's get it done.
05:25So I'm really curious, exactly what is a vajacial?
05:27So a vajacial is a facial for your vaginal area.
05:31Double cleansing.
05:32We're doing extractions.
05:34We're doing exfoliation.
05:35We're doing steam.
05:36We're doing enzymes.
05:38We're doing a skin scrubber.
05:39We're doing high frequency, working on that hyperpigmentation.
05:42And we're doing a hydrating jelly mask and oils after.
05:46That's so cool.
05:47To keep it nice and hydrated and soft and silky, but also making sure we're taking care
05:51of any problems you may have.
05:52How much does a vajacial typically cost?
05:55The vajacial is $100 and it's about an hour long service.
05:58Now that I'm waxed and my skin is rested for a day, it's time for my vajacial.
06:03We're going to turn the steam on first because we always get the best extractions when your
06:07skin is super soft.
06:08We will start with a green tea clay cleanser, which helps just deep clean the pores.
06:14Then we get into a turmeric neem scrub, which is really good for like a deep manual exfoliation.
06:19The skin scrubber comes after that to take the mask off and that is a tool that we use
06:24to decongest the pores.
06:26It sends vibrations to the bottom of your pore to bring up any dirt.
06:31And then we get into the extractions with our, it's like a needle somewhat, a needle
06:35and a loop so you can extract and pull out what you need.
06:39With extractions, how we can tell if it's ingrown as if it's inflamed and I can see a hair.
06:43I'm also looking for blackheads.
06:45Those are pretty clear as day.
06:48It's just black marks on your skin and it looks like an open pore.
06:51We're also looking for just those hairs that are underneath the surface that you can also see.
06:57They may not be infected, but those are also ingrown hairs as well.
07:00So we're going to work our way to getting those out just so that way you don't even see that
07:04on your skin.
07:04So then we finish off with a jelly mask, which is nice and hydrating and brightening and almost skin perfecting.
07:10We can either go in with high frequency again just to make sure we're really killing the bacteria and or
07:15finish off with the oil.
07:16Our Barentone oil, which is just nice for brightening the area.
07:19It has tea tree oil so it calms the skin down.
07:22It doesn't clog the pores and you're kind of just finished with that, with the oil.
07:27Alright, so how do you feel?
07:28I feel really clean.
07:31I feel like I could just go out and just like be bare skin out.
07:35Spread your wings.
07:36Yes, spread my wings.
07:38Spread my legs.
07:39You see?
07:40It feels like really free.
07:43Like I just feel extra confident.
07:45My skin feels so good now after the vijayshul.
07:48I can't express how confident I feel.
07:52I feel super clean.
07:54It's just such a refreshing process.
07:56I didn't know that vijayshuls would be as beneficial of a process, but I definitely get the hype.
08:05The vijayshul made me feel like the waxing process yesterday was totally worth it.
08:10It was super calming, super relaxing.
08:13It was just an overall great experience that I am also definitely going to make part of my routine.
08:21It's been a week since my wax and vijayshul.
08:25I will say that my hair is growing back faster than I expected to after getting the wax, especially just
08:33for it being a week.
08:34But they're growing in very particular places.
08:39It's not all over.
08:41It's just in very specific spots.
08:43I'm assuming because I'm a shaver, my hair follicles down there are just stronger and more potent.
08:52For the vijayshul, the first time coming back home, it felt really smooth for the rest of the night.
08:59But I will be honest and say that I didn't really get the discoloration cure after that one session, which
09:08I wasn't expecting.
09:09Just like any skincare treatment or process, you're not going to see something immediately after.
09:17I will definitely be getting more vijayshuls.
09:21Following that, I will get waxes as needed with the vijayshuls.
09:26...
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