Love Your Body!

With swim suite season upon us I wanted to talk a little more about body waxing. We have discussed bikini and Brazilian waxing extensively, but what about the rest of your body?! At Stripped we offer head to toe waxing (literally we will wax the hair on your toes). One of the most asked about […]

Waxing Contraindications Part Three-Medications and Chemicals

On our final blog about waxing contraindications I want to discuss probably the biggest one we encounter here at the salon.  Medications and chemicals.  There are so many things that you can take or put on your skin that can cause lifting and scaring.  Yes, we do use a hard wax which does typically only […]

Waxing Contraindications Part Two-Skin Lesions and Bruising

I touched a little on skin lesions and waxing last week in Part One of our Contraindication Series.  Just to clarify (because to be honest I don’t think I really explained this last week) a contraindication is anything that indicates to your technician that you should not be getting a particular service.  So skin lesions […]

Waxing Contraindications Part One-Acne

We received a question asking if it was okay to wax if you have acne.  And it got us thinking that doing a blog series on different waxing contraindications (or waxing no-nos) would be a great idea to explain why or why not you can not do/take/have certain things and get waxed. Today we are […]