Yowie. Ouch. Veet's promo materials claimed "Gone are the days of painful wax experience - remove hair easily and efficiently." Boy are they wrong. No matter how "easy" it proclaims, waxing your legs is a primitive, caveman-style approach to achieving smooth legs while using this product. I read the directions, applied the strips and yanked the "EasyGrip" tab. Whoa, the process ripped out only some of the hairs on my legs. I tried various areas on my leg - all with the same results. I did manage one mostly clear patch of skin, but either I have stubborn hairs or this product is not what it claims to be. I used it on my thigh and had blood trickling from a couple pores and also where a tiny skin tag was ripped open.
I can't imagine torturing yourself long enough to get all the hairs. Spies would give up state secrets to avoid enduring this process.
I had to think hard whether to venture into the package that held Veet Ready-To-Use Wax Strip for Face. I don't really have a problem with a "mussey" (female moustache), but I figured I could probably benefit slightly from some attention to my upper lip. I do have sensitive skin, though so I took a deep breath and applied the small strip to one side of my upper lip. It doesn't glue on to the skin like the leg strips, so when I pulled the tab back it yanked out some of the hairs, but left a sticky mess and a big red welt. I'll give the face strips a passable grade because the welt was gone in the morning and I didn't feel naked above my lips. It was a light, discreet improvement.
-- Rebecca Killian
I've given birth to four children, yet I have always been too afraid to try waxing my legs because of the pain ... ironic isn't it⢠Because of the lack of time I have because of those four children, the thought of having smooth legs for up to four weeks outweighed my fear.
I carefully read the directions for Veet wax strips, held my breath and gave it my best shot. Rub the strips together ... check. Peel them apart ... check.
Put them on my leg ... check. Rip it off ... ugh. I squeezed my eyes shut and tore off the strip like a Band-Aid.
Ouch!
I'm obviously still a baby. I kept going, though. For the sake of Trib Tested and a thorough review, I waxed the bottoms of each leg (I would have done the tops if I wasn't already in pain and praying for it to be over). I was, after all, doing this to myself. When I was finished yanking my hairs out, I used the "perfect finish wipes," which were so oily I needed a shower when I was done.
Upon further review, I was unimpressed with the stray hairs I found on my legs. I thought I had done something wrong, but the hairs were scattered. No way was I attaching another strip of wax to my leg for a few hairs.
Again, for the sake of Trib readers, I sucked it up and tried a facial wax strip on my eyebrows ... oh, my, gosh ... where are my tweezers?
It has been a couple of weeks since I tried the Veet strips on my legs and the hairs I was able to rip out have not grown back, so the long-lasting claim seems to be true. Is it worth the breath-holding and cringing⢠Not for this lady ... I actually prefer childbirth.
-- Melanie Wass
Oh. My. Gawd. I'm pretty sure the first scream I let out after using a Veet strip on my leg was heard around my neighborhood. Looking at these strips, my gut instinct was to avoid testing at all costs. I mean, I've seen how professional waxers do it, and I know this is not it. But I also know what the pro charges me, so I set off to see what Veet had to offer.
I looked around on the Internet for any and all home-waxing tips I could find and found two I liked: using a hair dryer instead of my hands to warm up the wax strips and having a glass of wine prior to the pull.
The strips are easy enough -- warm them up a bit, pull the two strips apart and apply to your leg. Then you wrench the strip back in the direction of hair growth and scream like a 3-year-old at the beginning of a tantrum. Luckily, the physical pain subsides quickly ... however, the mental anguish that sets in as you see seven solitary hairs embedded in the wax is an entirely different sort of pain.
My skin was in an uproar after just one strip, but I continued through my whole leg, even though hairs were left behind on each attempt. When I was finally done, my only thought was, "Oh, good. I get to do my upper lip, too." The red skin on my upper lip remained for a day while the few hairs I was attempting to remove still are there.
There are a few spots on my legs that, two weeks later, still are smooth, but not enough to let me dodge the razor ... or a scolding from my favorite professional.
-- Caroline Hirt
Additional Information:Veet Ready-to-Use Wax Strips
The claim: Specially formulated with HairCoating Technology, each strip acts like a liquid during application coating different lengths of hair as short as 2mm in small delicate areas, such as the upper lip, underarms, legs and bikini areas. Easily removed with the Easy Grip tab, Veet Ready-to-Use Hair Removal Wax Strips leaves only smooth and sexy skin that lasts up to four weeks.
Cost : $4.49 for legs (40 wax strips and 6 Perfect Finish Wipes) and $9.99 for face (20 wax strips and 4 Perfect Finish Wipes)
Where : Drug, mass merchandise and grocery stores
