I also have wickedly sensitive skin that hates the whole hair removal process, but if I don't remove it, I wind up with seriously nasty ingrows. So.

My sister.

I would do a bikini wax any day before I would have my legs waxed again. Seriously - more awful than any other pain I've experienced.

Bikini and thighs don't bother me in the slightest. I practically fall asleep. Lower legs, however... OMG Do Not Want Ever Again.

My other problem is hair on my chest areas, long black ugly hairs that are prone to getting ingrown after they've been plucked.

Oooh, threading! I need to look into that. That was the other thing I was considering, along with sugaring.

The pain part of threading takes a little longer than waxing. Upper lip will make my eyes water, chin I barely feel. I haven't done my eyebrows.

My very fair face, however, is red and irritated for hours after being waxed but only for a few minutes after threading. The "no skin is removed" makes a big difference.

So on the whole, for me, the pain is less with the threading. And the argument that its less wrinkle-inducing over the long term seems reasonable -- there is a whole lot less stretching of my skin.

I'd say the results last about as long either way, maybe a little longer with the threading.

Plei, my friend Stef is like that, too. I can't mention hair removal around her, or else she punches me, and it's justified -- she spends an hour a day plucking her face. And summertime is an absolute horror for her.

She's tried everything.

My mother has made me promise that when she's in a nursing home I'll come and make sure her face is shaved if it can't be waxed.

I am an eyebrow waxing devotee, but my skin does turn really red -- I'm pretty sensitive. But Target has a brand of cold-wax strips -- Perditas? Perida? -- that actually works really, really well, so I haven't been going to the salon.

I waxed once, and it didn't last long enough to be worth it - I had to shave again about three weeks later.

In the winter, I shave only if I'm going on vacation to somewhere warm enough to wear a bathing suit. During the summer, maybe once a week? I'm not picky.

Bikini, never. I really don't think most people are going to be looking that closely.

My skin is really sensitive to waxing. Whenever I go to get my face waxed, I warn the beautician that I have really sensitive skin, and she nods and say "OK" as if she's heard all this before, and then she pulls off the first wax strip and watches in horror as my skin turns bright red.

That's totally what happened to me the last time I had my legs done.

We all laugh at Joe when he takes off his shirt in the summer. He glows. Like unto a certain race of vampires. Without the glitter. And Heathclif-esque cloud of brooding.

I can't be the only one thinking I would pay folding money if someone where to glitterbomb him the next time this happens. The brooding (or glowering anyways) would probably just be a bonus.

One of our good friends has a salon, and consistently wins awards for "Best Waxing in the City" (she's actually going to be waxing a Bridezilla -- as in the TV show). Part of why she's so good is how fast she is at waxing; I think for both legs it took her 15 minutes, maybe? And it was thorough and really good.

I've had brazillians (though not bridezillas) a handfull of times by two different women. The pricey one is quick and more precise though she takes her time with the prep and the post. The less pricey one deffinately hurts more. She is just as quick with the actual yanking portion of the festivities, but she takes a lot less time pre-and-post fussing over my skin.