Hose Down Your Hoo-Ha

 To all of our family, friends and clients, we are so incredibly thankful for you! Have a wonderful day!! 

Love, Mark & M.E. 

 The staff at Mark & M.E. and Wax It All are thankful to be spending Thanksgiving with our families, but we wanted everyone to know that we will be back to work Friday and Saturday if you need us. (We may have full bellies and be a little sluggish from the tryptophan in the turkey, but we got this!)

If you don’t want feathers in your turkey, don’t wait until the last minute to contact us. Feel free to email Wax It All at waxitallsalon@gmail.com  (585-348-9355) or marknmesalon@gmail.com (585-473-7360) to schedule something for Tuesday or Wednesday this week. Both salons are also open Friday and Saturday if you need something done. Remember: you don’t want to choke on hair during the holiday festivities so get ahold of us so you can gobble gobble with glee!

 Remember the girl from yesterday who didn’t wax for several months because she was extremely un-sexually active? There is more to that story. She told me that she sat in her car with her girlfriend in our parking lot and smoked a large joint before her Brazilian Wax. She thought that would help. Boy was she wrong.  Being high doesn’t usually help. In fact, it can make the client more sensitive to the service.  I tried to explain how smoking intensifies your sensations as well as how it dries your skin out. She didn’t understand because she was convinced the higher she was, the easier the wax would be. So I tried another approach. I asked her if she gets cotton mouth when she smokes. “Every time,” she said. Well I told her that her mouth wasn’t the only place on her body that gets dry. She looked at me confused (well she was high…) So I had to inform her that not only did she have cotton mouth, she had cotton cootch. 

People are so funny!! A girl came in for a Brazilian Wax sporting a big ole afro. She hadn’t been waxed since July. I asked her why she waited so long between waxes. She told me she was “extremely UN-Sexually active!”  Please remember ladies: we do this for ourselves. If someone else enjoys it, that’s a bonus. 

I hope you all know that you can ask me anything, because the teacher in me loves to educate. I’ve also learned a lot over the past 30 years and am here to help in any way I can. For example, alcohol can be very dehydrating to the skin. Menopause also makes the skin dry out (especially in the nether regions.) The combination of the two can make waxing uncomfortable and can leave the skin more irritated after the service. One of my valued menopausal clients stopped drinking alcohol and significantly increased her water intake and it was remarkable how much better her skin responded to the wax. Not only do I encourage my older clientele to use a little organic coconut oil on their lady parts to moisturize the area, I also think everyone needs to drink more water. And I don’t care if you drink, but you may want to celebrate after your Brazilian Wax!

 Sometimes waxing can cause a little confusion: It was a hot day in September when a man who hadn’t been waxed in over a year came in for a Brazilian. He was severely dehydrated and hadn’t done any type of manscaping since our last encounter. As he left the room and headed towards our stairs, he looked down and realized he never put his shoes on. 

 Sometimes the conversations in the wax room are too funny not to share. 

M.E. “I can’t believe how long your hair has grown. It looks great!”

Client: “I’ve been taking 1500mg of Biotin. It’s so much healthier and longer now. I just love it!”

M.E. “That’s fantastic. I’ll have to let others know how well it can work.”

The conversation changes to something else for a few minutes, then halfway through the Brazilian, this client says in a frustrating tone, “Why the heck is my pubic hair growing so fast? I was just here a month ago!”

M.E. “Did you tell the Biotin to only work on the hair on your head?”

 I do not understand Google. This ad was rejected.  It is a pic of a girl’s arm that I waxed– not some very well endowed gentleman. Any thoughts why they find my posts so objectionable? I’m just trying to show off our work!

 I wrote a book called The Happy Hen House a few years ago. In that book, I introduced my little voice – a gay Hispanic man named Raul. When I am faced with an unpleasant or outrageous situation in the wax room, he speaks to me. The other day a hairy client came in for a Brazilian Wax. As soon as the client got on the table, I could smell that the backside wasn’t going to be as pristine as I would have liked. That was when Raul told me to spray some Lysol on it.😂