Does your chair really need all those wheels? Can't you just balance really carefully

I went and got my hair cut and face waxed at an AVeda Institute yesterday, I like going there becuase affordable haircut and it won't be bad becuase even though students are cutting my hair the instructors make sure it looks right.

Hair cut was fine, waxing was a bit wonky. She didn't get all the wax residue off my face last night I washed tt with some cleanser I have for sensitive skin. It still didn't feel like it came off so I used this cleansing pad that came with the set with the cleanser. It's for sensitive skin and I wasn't thinking about there being an issue.

A few hours later my face got itchy and when I rubbed it there were lumps. So it felt like maybe an allergic reaction, but I figured things would be okay in the morning. I took Benadryl to help with the itching and rubbed some pure aloe.

Today I still have lumps under the skin but there's a section of skin that's more inflamed than the rest and dark red. I don't know what to do.

Would topical Benadryl help or make it worse?

Would topical Benadryl help or make it worse?

Sounds like it's irritated more than an allergic reaction. Probably just need to leave it alone and let it calm down. Cold water compress maybe to cool it?

Hec's right, it's probably just irritated. I don't let anyone near my face with wax because my face gets red and irritated for hours, and what's the point of that?

Mine stays red and bumpy for a day or two, so I don't wax either.

Mine stays red and bumpy for a day or two, so I don't wax either.

Yeah, the same thing happens to me after I get my brows waxed, so I try to plan ahead if I need to not look red and bumpy (like, I got them waxed 2 weeks before the wedding so they had plenty of time to calm down).

Give them a day or two, and use an ice pack or a cold washcloth if it's really annoying.

Yeah, I've gotten that with waxing, too. I tried going to a place once that used "natural" wax, and I had a much worse reaction than I'd ever had with the regular stuff. Turns out the "natural" wax has pine sap, and I'm really allergic to pine trees. For next time, if they leave any wax on your face, use rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball to get it off, then put on some aloe.

The last time I needed a wheelchair seat cushion, I thought Mom would be on the news.I even had a list of reporters in mind.(She went off a little on the guy that said "no,".) The most my face ever itched, I had a reaction to some eye drops(I found out years later) My face itched for months as I kept being treated for pinkeye I no longer had.

What, you think you deserve to be comfortable? To not have your butt hurt from when you have to sit there all day? Boy, the kids these days.

IO, extremely petty, N, I have sparse eyebrows. Yay, natural redhead coloring. But there is one hair in my eyebrows that grows straight out. With a curl. In a different life, I would embrace said rebel hair with elan, tend it to its Ernest Borgnine potential, but this is not that life. So every now and then I have to take tweezers to my eyebrow, trying to target only the one hair without removing its few comrades that need to stay.

Such is Saturday in my house.

Oh, and there's the cat box to deal with. Yay.

I have Ernest Borgnine eyebrows too!

Or perhaps, Einsteinesque in their hilarious tendency to point in all but desired directions.