Just a warning...something I found out the hard way (like about everything else I do)

[kenyonchris]

Do NOT, and I repeat, DO NOT get any part of your face waxed before riding (or running or outdoor sport involving wind and copious amounts of sweat). I happen to have large amounts of excess hair on my face. Not the wiry, old lady kind, but the fluffy, downy variety. So I wax twice a month, and get my brows and lip and stuff along with it. I hate it, hate it, hate it, but I hate being furry more. And I guess the gods of timing never made me do it before my daily outdoor activity. IT IS A BAD IDEA.
The point was to have my face recovered to the extent that I would look silky smooth and hairless for drinks tonight with my SO. So I thought, logically, that I would go get it done, go for a run...since the road bike is currently inoperable. Come home, check my computer, shower, change, put on something stunning (jeans, tank, flip flops) and be ready for him around 7ish. I endured the de-hairing process and set out in the park for my run. It is, mind, close to 100 degrees, and has been raining a bit, so 80 percent humidity. It doesn't take long for sweat to roll down my forehead onto my newly bared brow line. It felt like bees had taken roost. I tried to remedy it by wiping it away, but all it did was rub the salt into the wound...as they say. I am surprised somone didn't call my own dang PD and send someone from my own dang shift (it was my early day so everyone else was still working) to investigate a girl in the park swatting at her own face. It was miserable. I arrived back at my car and looked in the mirror and everywhere I had waxed (pretty much my entire face) was puffy and red. AND, the excess was she had missed getting off had melted and run. I looked like a candle.
I came home and soaked my face in cool water and it is a little better. But I still look like I have some strange red-face patchy disease. I saw my SO's truck at the PD so he is still at work, running late...at least that is a good thing. With a little time, hopefully I will look a little less frightening. I don't want to have to explain how I got this way.

[Veronica]

Ahhh... vanity. The things we do to look good. My nails are still pink from the bright red polish I wore to my husband's high school reunion. But dang, I looked HOT.

Veronica

[Possegal]

Well it seems you already answered how to explain it - many bees stung you while you went for a run!? Dang bees!

I'm really laughing at the description of yourself looking like a candle.

[shootingstar]

I arrived back at my car and looked in the mirror and everywhere I had waxed (pretty much my entire face) was puffy and red. AND, the excess was she had missed getting off had melted and run. I looked like a candle.
I came home and soaked my face in cool water and it is a little better. But I still look like I have some strange red-face patchy disease. I saw my SO's truck at the PD so he is still at work, running late...at least that is a good thing. With a little time, hopefully I will look a little less frightening. I don't want to have to explain how I got this way.

Let us know if anyone said anything to you. Well, hubby has to know of course. He might send you to the hospital.

I have no comparable stories except my partner hates makeup on me. He's allergic to makeup..passes by a cosmetics counter or cosmetics aisle..and he gets a booming headache, etc. It starts immediately for him.

He's secretly glad I don't wear mascara nor do fingernail polish. But I wear foundation for dressy occasions.

[Biciclista]

run out and buy new goofy or bizarre sunglasses. He'll never notice your skin.

[ehirsch83]

I learned the hard way the other year not to get any waxing down below and go do physical activity also!

I had an appt. to get it done and then the guy that I was dating at the moment wanted to know if I wanted to go for a ride early evening. I said sure!

The same reaction your face had, I had! just farther south

[Tri Girl]

I'm just imagining you swatting at yourself and your face melting like a candle. I'm not laughing AT you, per se, just giggling at the thought. Oh, and OUCH!!! Sorry you had to learn the hard way.

[channlluv]

I learned the hard way the other year not to get any waxing down below and go do physical activity also!

I had an appt. to get it done and then the guy that I was dating at the moment wanted to know if I wanted to go for a ride early evening. I said sure!

The same reaction your face had, I had! just farther south

YOUCH!

Kenyonchris, kudos on doing so much to take care of yourself. I'm sorry that particular day it didn't work out so well.

I just started getting my eyebrows and upper lip done a couple of months ago, and darned if she didn't say, "You know, you've got some hairs coming in on your chin, too. Would you like me to get those?" Um, yeah, thanks. (and yeah, it's the wiry old lady kind)

So there I am, lulled into a false sense of squishiness because of this young woman's soft, soothing voice assuring me that it won't hurt - much - and trying not to feel too much like one of the three little pigs, and she starts whisking off the cloths. Ouch! Ouch! OUCH! Oh, dear lord in heaven, how long does this go on?

Not too long, thank goodness, but after that first trip, I learned to take an icepack in a little insulated lunch bag with me, along with a wet washcloth to cool off my swollen face. And I didn't even go running afterward.

Roxy

[TrekTheKaty]

I learned the hard way the other year not to get any waxing down below and go do physical activity also!

I had an appt. to get it done and then the guy that I was dating at the moment wanted to know if I wanted to go for a ride early evening. I said sure!

The same reaction your face had, I had! just farther south

YOUCH!

KenyonChris, my husband probably wouldn't notice Boys can be less than observant (sorry, Mr. Silver).

[bmccasland]

KC - two words - cool compresses.

Hope the swelling went down and you had a nice evening out. But beware of the alcohol - dialates the surface blood vessels. The swelling will come back rather quickly.

[kenyonchris]

It was a two margarita night, but you guys were right...he didn't notice. He is seriously observant, being a detective and all, but my slightly swollen bee attack look was not noticed.

[Aggie_Ama]

Margaritas make my whole body puffy so I would just look like the doughboy. My husband doesn't notice I wear makeup, it used to annoy me then I realized I didn't have to try to impress him. It was actually liberating compared to my father (bless him) who likes my mom all made up and hair done.

Glad date/drink night wasn't ruined and we all learned from your mistake!

[beccaB]

As far as the observational qualities of men, my husband included- I think women dress to impress other women. Personal grooming is also a part of "dress". I won't put on makeup for my husband, but if I'm going out with other women I will. He really would not notice either way.