Just catching you guys up on what's been going on in Esthetics class. We started practicing waxing this past week and I came to class Tuesday to the unpleasant surprise of Bikini waxing. Holy, can you say PAINFUL? I felt like I had been sitting on a horse most of the day when we finished. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm happy that we won't be learning OR practicing the full Brazilian, but I did hear some of Morning students had it done. Ow.
On the brighter side, Amal (an Israeli woman from our class, really nice lady, she moved here a few years ago with her husband and kids) tought us the art of hair threading. It's a process of using basic sewing thread and twisting it up, with a loop on one end and the other end anchored in your mouth. You place the loop around the line or section of hair you want to remove and "spin" the thread. She practiced this on a few of my classmates, including me. This was fairly painful, too; if I could explain how it feels, it's like having a zipper on your skin. You feel every single hair as it pops out... I think I can feel good sticking to shaving, thanks. But it's nice that our teacher's mustache is now gone. Just kidding, Teresa.
Now that we're done with our waxing chapter, we've moved on to basic facials and massages. We're learning pressure points and relation to the muscles in the face and tissues of the body. Very interesting. I feel like we're FINALLY getting to the good stuff in this class.