Clean, smooth and silky skin, on which there is not a single treacherously protruding hair - this is what any lady seeks today. There are many ways to deal with unwanted hair: waxing in a beauty salon and wax strips for self-use, depilation creams and laser hair removal, photoepilation and elos hair removal, using a home hair removal machine and sugar removal (shugaring). How long the result lasts depends largely on the chosen method of getting rid of excess hair, the quality of consumables and the experience of the person conducting the procedure.
What is shugaring?
Sugar hair removal was known in ancient Egypt several thousand years ago. Back in the time of Cleopatra, women removed hair with a mixture of water and sugar. But European and Russian beauty salons, the shugaring procedure began to be offered very recently, instantly gaining popularity among the fair sex.
Shugaring is a procedure in which a special sugar paste is used, enveloping when applying hairs and removing them in the direction of growth. You can make pasta on your own or by entrusting this work to masters with the appropriate qualifications. Using shugaring, you can get rid of hair on the face, armpits, legs, hips, hands, in the bikini area, on the stomach, back, buttocks. Also, this procedure will help get rid of ingrown hair on the body.
Now you have an understanding of what shugaring is. How much does the result keep from the procedure? This question excites many beauties who want to get rid of unwanted vegetation on the body for a long time. You can learn more about this later.
Sugaring. How long does the result last?
After sugar hair removal, the skin remains smooth and silky for up to 3 weeks. The duration of the effect of the procedure is facilitated by the fact that the hair is removed in the direction of their growth during the anaphase period. This allows you to increase the stage of hair regeneration.
In addition, with sugar hair removal, the composition penetrates deep enough into the hair follicle and removes the hairs completely, without breaking off or bending them. In this case, the skin on the body does not inflame, burns, redness and allergies are excluded.
Benefits of Shugaring
In addition to questions about what is shugaring, how much the result of the procedure is held, and in what areas on the body you can use this technique, women are also worried about the benefits of sugar hair removal.
We list the main advantages of the method:
- Painless procedure. Compared to waxing and mechanical hair removal, the procedure is almost atraumatic.
- The duration of the effect of shugaring.
- The use of a hypoallergenic natural composition of water and sugar during hair removal without the use of harmful dyes, additives and fragrances.
- Convenience. For a high-quality shugaring procedure, it is enough that the hair grows only 1-2 mm.
- Removing not only hairs on the surface of the skin, but also ingrown hairs without further inflammatory reactions.
- An additional effect in the form of a delicate peeling that will save a woman from peeling of the skin.
- The possibility of using sugar paste on sensitive skin and with problems with blood vessels, since it is hypothermic.
Saving on Shugaring at Home
Quite often, women, having visited the procedure of sugar hair removal in a beauty salon, then try to do it at home on their own. Moreover, the technique of shugaring is quite simple, and the ability not to overpay for the work of the master is extremely attractive. Even a woman with a small income will be able to do a sugaring at home. The result, photos before, after, a month after the procedure confirm that the choice of the method was made correct. You do not need to buy something special for this, just sugar, lemon and water are enough. Real savings can be calculated simply by estimating that one kilogram of sugar is enough to carry out shugaring for six months.
Homemade Shugaring Sugar Paste Recipe
On preparation of syrup at home it will take you no more than half an hour. A step-by-step recipe is as follows:
- We mix 10 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 5 tablespoons of water in a saucepan, put on a stove over high heat and cook for two minutes with constant stirring.
- Then the fire must be halved, cover the pan with a lid and cook the mixture, stirring occasionally, until it becomes homogeneous and liquid.
- Soon the mixture will begin to gurgle and gradually darken, and according to the consistency and smell it will resemble caramel. Continue to cook it with constant stirring.
- When you see that the mixture is covered with foam and bubbles, it will need to be mixed and left on fire for another 5 minutes with the lid open.
- After the paste has cooled slightly, you can go directly to the shugaring procedure.
House Shugaring Technique
First you need to take a piece of already non-hot, but not completely hardened paste in your hands and carefully knead it to an elastic state. At first it will not be easy, but then the mixture will become more pliable due to the warmth of the hands. If, nevertheless, there were difficulties during kneading due to the fact that the sugar is too thick, then you can add a little water to the composition.
Gradually, sugar will turn from a hardened dark mass into a lighter and lasting soft paste. We roll a ball out of it and roll it on the skin against the hairline, with force pressing it to the epilated area. Then we sharply tear off the rolled toffee in the direction of hair growth.
Hair in different parts of the body grows differently, so keep track of their growth direction when doing shugaring. How much does the result of the procedure done at home keep? In fact, the duration of the effect of sugar removal at home is not less than after the salon procedure, provided that the paste was prepared correctly and the technique was applied correctly. But to achieve the desired result when using homemade sugar paste is obtained far from all and not immediately. You need to be patient and get used to it.
Sugaring. How long does the result last? Women's reviews
You can find completely opposite reviews of women who have already tried this tool as a means of combating unwanted hair. Who perceives shugaring? The result (photos are often attached to reviews) often justifies expectations.
Many, for example, argue that for this method it became a salvation, because everyday shaving is tired. Women do the procedure at home themselves, but use a special paste for this, which they buy in a professional cosmetics store. The effect of use is quite satisfactory.
Other women assure that the cooked
at home, the paste for shugaring does not penetrate the hair as deep as necessary, therefore, it breaks off the hairs, and subsequently their ingrown. Therefore, in their opinion, you need to do shugaring in the salon of the master, or at least with the help of a special paste for sugar hair removal, but you should not experiment with a gas stove.
Still others, regularly using home-made sugar mass to get rid of hair, have inspired girlfriends with their experience. Some of the respondents were not enthusiastic, they noted that the procedure was painful, and some of the hairs remained in place.
There are those who, having tried for the first time to do shugaring at home, only left bruises on their legs, since it was necessary to put strong pressure on the skin when applied. Therefore, they concluded for themselves that at home, shugaring can only be used to remove hair in small areas of the body (for example, on the legs).