sugar wax

pros: cheap, long lasting-month
cons: tedious, time consuming. hurts, a little.

pain factor: low or medium. depends on how your skill.

-if wan try out, here's a relli detailed guide.

what you need
-utensils: pot, glass container (ntuc have), buttering knife, toilet roll, cup, sieve, bowl clamp (with 3 claws), timer (handphone), plastic bag, wet cloth, fork, cup

optional, but useful: electric kettle (the fast type), microwave (i dunno is glass suitable for microwave??)

the pot im using a black kind steel pot, it doesnt burn as easily. i oso use it to cook porridge. if you use a silver types or e glass types, may require different timing and flame control.

-ingredients:
-1/4 cup tap water, 1/4 cup lemon juice(=1 whole lemon, buy more in case fail), 2 cups white sugar (= 500g or half a small bag)

-squeeze lemon juice
-use sieve, fork, knife, and bowl to make lemon juice.
-cut lemon  in half
-use fork to dig flesh
-jucie comes out
-sieve off the pulp and seed
-1 whole lemon should be ennough for 1/4 cup juice.

-sugar
-pour sugar into cup the confinement of ur sink. no messy clean up of leaked sugar

-dump 1/4 cup juice, 1/4 cup water, 2 cup sugar into pot.
- 6 min high fire
-after 6 min, off the fire, let it cool until the bubble subside. you shld see big bubbles, but nt foam.
- you want some caramelisation, but no burning
-hint is when it starts foaming
-yellow foam=must switch off fire.
-switch off fire, scoop some onto white surface-white=no. yellow=almost there. pale orange=should be there. orange=off immediately.
-until you get colour, you have to off, test, when bubbles subside, on fire for a few second. repeat until get correct colour.
-colour in container should be somewhat like honey. orange amber, but not dark amber.

-let it cool for a while, but not the whole container harden.
-start scooping some onto a bowl to cool and thicken.
-once it does not burn skin, you can apply.
-spread thin layer. apply in the direction of hair growth.
-use toilet paper to tear off wax.
- tearing: you can tear inch by inch (oppo dirn of hair growth). some pain.

-if it gets too hard to dig, warm it up again in your oven/microwave. dun put glass container directly on open fire, cos glass will crack. can choose to boil it with water in a pot.

-to wash the utensils, add water and boil them. the sugar comes off real fast.

wan do eye brows can, not very pain, but that one you nid to careful, if not lasting regret hahah. wear hand band and pinch a teeny portion to paste on the area you wanna remove. like play plasticine. easier to control then use butter knife apply. if wrong, wash off sugar with water and resume. oso use tissue paper to rip it off. i mean rip, rather than tear inch by inch. different from arms and legs.

this cannot be kept overnight. it will become wet. (sugar melts). no fridge. fridge is wet too.

i might try an epilator, which is a machine with many tweezers, when im working and have e $$ to splurge. cos i dislike cooking.