In the whole time I have been blogging for, I have always put forward my views on both the positive and the negative sides of a product. I try to make every product work for me in some way or other, and never thought of product-bashing (is that a word?). But, yes today I think, for the first time on B.B.B there is going to be one such event, my review on HipHop Skin Care Facial Wax Strips. Now I am not a rude person (umm... I think so), so this post won't be having any *beep* words if you were wondering :P.
RATINGS: 1 out of 5
PRICE: Rs.40
QUANTITY: 6 double sided wax strips
INGREDIENTS & DIRECTIONS TO USE:
MY EXPERIENCE: This was an impulse buy, just for emergency purposes. But, this itself called for an emergency when I used it for the first time. For reference, see the gross picture below when I tried it on my upper lip area for the first time,
Sorry for the crappy quality picture, but I hope can you see the nick marks on my skin in the circled area. Yes, that was my first experience and I was horrified, and oh it didn't remove the facial hair at all as expected, not even on my fingers, on which I tried the other half of a single strip. Just for the sake of the review I thought of giving it a second chance. No, I didn't dare to try it on my face again but on my toes. I tried to remove the little fine hair there on my big toe (I promise I am not a hairy gorilla if the thought crossed your mind ;)) ), but, ha! there was still half of them visible on my toe though the strip tried hard to remove some.
WHAT I LIKED:
- Only the price..maybe!
WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE:
- I tried to warm up the strip for more than 30secs between the palms, but I didn't see much softening of the wax to begin with.
- It failed to remove the fine hairs from my face, fingers and toes. DUH!
- If you try the same strip on the same spot many times, the wax gets stuck on the skin.
- It irritated my upper lip area (maybe due to the wax that got stuck which I tried hard to remove and it resulted in those ugly marks).
- The depil towelettes are hardly soothing to my irritated skin after the painful waxing process.
VERDICT:
I am definitely staying away from it. Try this at your own risk! RATINGS: 1 out of 5
I too used this on my face, didnt remove anything rather,left my face soar, and so much irrtaing pain and all, my face was all crimson red! :(
ReplyDeleteyes it was really painful for me too...even my toe looked really swollen and red. :((
Deletewax strips doesnt work at all...i used veet wax strips on my hands..OMG it formed a patch on my skin n in the process of removing the gum from my hands...a black mark stayed on my hand for couple of months..tht was horrible exp
ReplyDeleteOMG..horrible! only if I knew beforehand I wouldn't have dared to try it on my face! :|
Deleteoh that's so bad!! i ve had similar experience with the normal wax strips too!!!!
ReplyDeleteTweezing and Threading zindabad! :P
DeleteOuch! I hope you're okay.
ReplyDeleteLOL..yeah...it was nothing major *touchwood*
Deletewell i will stay away from it..thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDeleteu r welcome sweets :)
Deleteawww. poor you..I've noticed many people having a problem with Hip hop. Nothing happened to me though. i dont warm it between my palms, i do it between my bed and my palm, guess it generates more heat then.I never got a boo boo from it tho. i use a lil baby powder too before waxing.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with the brands since I liked their nail polish remover wipes quite a lot...I am not sure if I would dare again to use it but if I do I will try ur method!
DeleteI 2 have used the wax strips on my face and had no such issues :)... I 2 rub it on my bed and thn use it :D,....
Deletethat's a good idea btw :)
Deleteoh thats so bad..this is the sole reason i stay away from all kinds of waxing/threading on my face..the pain :(
ReplyDeleteI am used to threading now...but this...ughhh!!
DeleteOMG !!! I hope u are feeling good now :(
ReplyDeleteyes I am fine..it wasn't anything major...but I was pissed off bcoz of the marks and pain :(
DeleteHey! That's quite sad ya.. Thanks for the review, will steer clear of this.
ReplyDeleteU r welcome :)
DeleteI tried veet strips on my hands & after pulling out the strip from the hand I noticed little drops of blood coming like somebody pricked me with a needle, that was the first & last time I tried wax strips, for me threading & sometimes tweezing works. Wasn't your mom angry after seeing that? Is the pain gone or is it still there?
ReplyDeleteThe pain and the marks were gone after 3 days...n no I didn't show it to my mom...ek pain k upar dusra pain? Nooooo :P
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