$30 Brazillian in Hawthorne - ZOMG

[leggz]

Hello lovely ladies of Brisneyland - gents you might want to skip this post. ;] I wish to let you know of an amazing little place that just opened up on Hawthorne Road called, "Full Kandi".

I was immediately drawn to them when I saw a placard out the front of their beauty clinic stating that they gave $30 Brazillian Waxes. I honestly almost

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[afi_havok]

Thanks for the recommendation re:pricing, but I don't think I'll go there after checking out their website. Under services:

It’s society that tells us that women have to be hair free, but it’s people like you and me that have to fork out at the salon. That’s why we want to keep the price down. Like women’s hygiene products it’s not something we want to buy, it’s something that we have to buy.

O rly? Because I'm pretty sure that while I have to purchase something to stop bleeding everywhere, I'm pretty sure that it's not a neccessity for me to adhere to societies beauty standards.

Sorry for post hijack - it just jumped out at me and really got my goat!

[leggz]

No offence taken re: the high-jack. I don't really see what's wrong with what she's written, though? Her business is beauty therapies and waxing etc, and she's writing this blurb to potential customers so they are probably going to feel obligated to get whatever it is they get done, done. If that makes sense. :P
I know I feel weird if I don't get a Brazillian every month or so - I start to feel like a bushy chewbacca!

Also, she's just gone into business and they're written all of this up themselves. I wouldn't worry too much, they're nice ladies who offer great [cheap!] services. :]

[afi_havok]

Sorry babe, as A Hairy Bitch[tm], I guess I readily take offence when companies refer to hair-removal as a necessity... and comparing it to tampons/pads etc didn't sit right with me. There's a bit of a difference, in my mind! I will gladly go without shaving/waxing/depilating for months and months, but I'm pretty sure there'd be trouble if I ignored my mentrual cycle like I ignore my leg hair ;o)

[leggz]

No need to apologise! If we all had the same views the world would be a pretty boring place.

I can definitely see where you're coming from; personally it doesn't worry me. So long as I get my cheap waxing I don't much care what they write! ;] :P

[rebelsketcher]

don't you get itchy though?

[katrina_splat]

I get what you mean, especially when I have one of these babies and laugh every time I walk down the 'female hygeine' (I mean, we need them to be hygenic now?) aisle at a supermarket: http://www.mylunette.com

I don't like how it's worded. I understand they're offering cheap service, but they're saying 'society tells us to be like this! So we are!'. I guess it makes us socially conscious people pause and go wtf?! whereas most people will just say 'wow, that's a good price'.

Hey if you can find me a salon that waxes AND doesn't act like and say that every woman *has to*...they'd probably not be very sucessful business wise. But I'd go there, if it existed :P

[rebelsketcher]

O GAWD!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!?????? How would you even use that when you're in a shopping centre???

The cloth pads look kinda cool though.

[katrina_splat]

I mean I laugh because of all the money I don't have to spend :P.

And cloth pads rock as well :D http://au.clothpadshop.com/ http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=handmade&search_query=cloth+menstrual+pads&order=price_desc&ship_to=

Try it, you won't regret it :P *getting totally off topic now*

[rebelsketcher]

fascinating ~ :D

[siouxsyn]

For a while I was using sea sponges. Moisten one, use for 12 hours, rinse and leave in a glass of water with a drop of tea tree oil. You only need two that way, and they last for a long time.

[katrina_splat]

Yeah I've heard about using sea sponges as well. Where did you get them from? I might have to give them a shot at some point.

[siouxsyn]

Chemists and health food shops sometimes have them. They are mostly sold for applying make-up or for craft painting effects.

[karisitas]

I have a miacup and my partner has a pinkcup - we both get a lot of glee whenever we go shopping and walk past the tampons/pads. We LOVE that we no longer have to buy any of that crap!

[katrina_splat]

Yay for pink! I love the look of the Mia :)

[divabat]

Can you find menstrual cups in stores here or do you have to go online?

[katrina_splat]

Only a couple of brands have been approved to sell here (for some reason cups have to go through a drug sort of testing, rather than being treated as an external product) so ebay or online will give you the best brand selection. I can understand why you'd want to have a look at one in person first though.

You can get the lunette at the retail sellers listed here: http://www.mylunette.com/lunettestockistsaustralia I think you can find The Keeper in some stores as well, but I can't find a stockist list. Have a look at the menstrual_cups community if you have any other questions :).