Anyone who's ever gotten a wax knows how messy the process can get.
1. "I'm currently in school for esthetics, and one of my instructors was telling us about a former student who was scheduled for her first Brazilian appointment. Everything went well until she got to the woman's butthole, and she wasn't really sure what to do with it, so she scooped some hard wax up with a popsicle stick, spread it across, and stuck it INSIDE her butthole like we do with nose waxes."
2. "I used to be an aesthetician, and I'll never forget the first Brazilian I ever gave a girl. I was inexperienced, so to get the butt area I made her go on all fours. After I powdered up her butt, I was holding her cheeks open and closely examining the direction of her hair growth so I'd know which direction to spread the wax, as I was trained to do. Then all of a sudden I see her butthole opening and closing and opening and closing and then BAM. She fully farts in my face."
"She was super embarrassed and said it was an 'air bubble.' Didn't smell like one though." —Milosz123
3. "I briefly worked as a waxer after I graduated from cosmetology school. I quit after this dude kept coming in with larger and larger anal beads in his ass."
4. "I love my job, but sometimes I wonder why I still do this. A new client had come in for a full Brazilian. She was no older than 17, and it was her first time doing it. I was trying to make her as comfortable as possible and explain everything I was doing. So we finish the front, and I tell her to flip over and hold her butt cheeks so I can do the butt strip. I apply the wax over her butthole, but I guess she doesn't expect it because she farts and blows a bubble with the wax."
"It popped so loudly that it echoed in the room. I had never seen anything happen like that before. I could see she was humiliated, and I was embarrassed for her. I immediately turned around and started fumbling with anything I could get my hands on to pretend I didn't just see what happened. I never saw that girl again." —DirtyWaterDogs
5. "At one point in my esthetics career I did a lot of waxing, like 12 Brazilians a day, so I have seen/smelt some horrifying shit. The most memorable WTF moment was while waxing a well-groomed sorority girl. She was utterly oblivious to the rank odor emanating from her junk. There was discharge."
"I pulled a strip from her lower labia, near her vaginal opening, and what I can most accurately describe as the contents of a large Cadbury cream-egg stuck to the edge of the strip and splattered on the wall behind me. She remained blissfully ignorant of the bacterial projectile." —[deleted]
6. "So I have this client coming in for a Brazilian. As soon as we are in the room, she warns me that last time she was in, she didn't like her last experience and let me know that she has her clit pierced. I was like, 'Cool, no probs. Thanks for the heads-up; let's try to make this better.' So we get started, and there's the piercing. No biggie. Well, halfway through, she starts talking, and I was like, 'I hope this has been a better experience for you. I wouldn't want a repeat of last time,' and she explains that it wasn't the waxing; it was the waxer."
"Apparently, when she explained her piercing to the previous esthetician, she pulled the towel back, and patted the pierced clit without gloves, saying how she has never seen one of these before. Under no circumstance are you to directly touch a client there. The woman was not impressed, and refused to return until she was sure the previous esthetician was no longer employed. So it's not really my experience; I just felt bad for my client." —chriseo22
7. "My roomie had one today and said the lady doing hers went, 'See that pillow in the corner? We used to have it over here for y'all to clutch onto for comfort until a lady started HITTING ME with it. Now it stays in the corner.'"
8. "One time I was getting waxed at a new place and thought things were going just fine. I was making small talk with the esthetician while spread eagle on the table. She was facing away getting her supplies ready, and she started sniffling, and I thought she might be crying? I was like, 'OK, I know it's been a while, but I can't be that shocking.'"
"And I asked, 'Hey, are you OK?' And she turned around just full-on ugly snot crying and explained to me that the appointment before mine was her recent ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend!" —cielitogirl
9. "A worm fell out of someone's butthole when I was waxing it. A tiny, little maggot-y looking worm."
10. "My instructor in cosmetology school told me about a time when they had to practice anal waxing, and the way she was supposed to do it involved her putting talcum powder on the butthole area. So she powders the person up, and as she's grabbing something else from her work table the person lets out an airy toot and a little fluff cloud of powder came with it."
"She couldn't contain herself and had to do the assignment another day, haha." —littleinferno__
11. "Sperm bubbles. Women didn't always wash up after sex, and they'd come in for a wax. Sometimes the semen would form a bubble while you were waxing and then it would pop and leave you with an awful rancid sperm smell."
12. "My waxy lady and I talk about this all the time. She said girls come in on their periods all the time. She doesn't mind, as long as there's a tampon in place and it's clean. Some ladies don't comply. She's seen women who haven't properly wiped their butthole after taking a dump."
"But the weirdest thing she saw was a girl who was born without an asshole. I don't know who/why/how/what/where but yeah. Unfortunate, mostly." —tinysmommy
13. "Esthetician student here. I plan on going into Brazilians/manzilians/bikini waxing (and full body) after graduation. The number of people who come in during their monthly cycle, only wearing a pad... Come on now."
14. "I've had a few Brazilians done, and I asked my waxer what her worst experiences were, and she said there are so many people who come straight from the gym or their afternoon jog or their strenuous workplace without showering or anything."
15. "My friend is an aesthetician. She has sent ladies to the GYN for growths, aromas, etc. She says it's about once a month that she has to have that awkward talk with a client. The worst one she ever told me about was a sweet older lady with a labial abscess. Poor woman, it must have hurt like hell. She had it treated and came back to say thank you."
16. "Not my story, but had a friend who did waxing for awhile. She had a guy come in and request a waxing for his taint/ass area. When she did, the guy orgasmed on release. It was obviously awkward, the guy apologized profusely, and it was a 'no harm no foul' but 'don't do it again' situation. Well of course he returned after some time, and he came again. They banned him from returning."
17. "I got a full Brazilian as a dude. Female esthetician works on me. My girlfriend is waiting in the lobby. After she's about halfway through the front, she asks if she can ask a slightly unprofessional question. I say sure. She says she's never seen a circumcised penis before but didn't ask me any actual question, just made the comment. The worse part was that the walls were thin so pretty much the whole lobby heard the conversation. 🙃"
18. "My former girlfriend liked the idea of shaving your chest, etc. The less hair I got on my body, the better. I bled so heavily out of every damn pore on my chest that the lady stopped mid-session. After the bleeding had stopped somewhat, I helped cleaning up, paid, and left. The bruises were visible for several weeks. I never did try waxing again."
19. "A woman in her 40s came in, and 5 centimeters of her intestines were sticking out of her anus inside out. She told us she had pushed so hard when she gave birth, that she pushed it out."
20. "I'm a salon manager, not an actual esthetician. We once had to ask a customer to refrain from bringing her husband into the waxing room to watch the service being performed."
21. "My waxing lady used to work in an actual salon but now works mobile. She had a dude come into the salon who wanted his back, sack, and crack waxed. As standard practice, she told him she would leave the room for a few minutes whilst he got undressed and positioned himself on the table. Upon her return to the room, she found the guy dressed in an adult diaper, bib, frilly hat, and with a dummy. He asked her if she would be his mommy. I think more shit went down, but she didn't go into detail."
22. "The amount of women that fart while you're waxing them is unbelievable. They always get so embarrassed, and I tell them it happens all the time. You're clenching, holding your knees up to your chest for part of it; it's bound to happen sooner or later."
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