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"As if buying a bikini wasn't hard enough&amp;amp;#xE2;&amp;amp;#xBF;&amp;amp;#xBF; Bikini line maintenance has to be too! Marielee91, you asked about hair removal options for the area. Here's what Fardad Moayeri, Owner of Parissa Laboratories (one...\n\n[\n\n](http://blog.teenvogue.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/07/parissa.jpg)\n\nAs if buying a bikini wasn't hard enough&amp;amp;#xE2;&amp;amp;#xBF;&amp;amp;#xBF; Bikini line maintenance has to be too! Marielee91, you asked about hair removal options for the area. Here's what Fardad Moayeri, Owner of Parissa Laboratories (one of my favorite brands of wax!!!) and Janet Chao, Head Aesthetician of Parissa Laboratories had to say:\n\n\"It's not sketchy at all to ask about bikini hair removal; many girls and women experience these difficulties! Waxing is one of the best ways to remove hair from the bikini area because it provides long-term hair removal for as long as 2-4 weeks and hair regrowth will be softer and lighter versus unsightly stubble. Whether at home or at the salon there area a couple way to minimize pain and discomfort when waxing the sensitive bikini area:\n\n*Take an aspirin or ibuprofen half an hour before waxing; this can help desensitize the area.\n\n*Always keep the skin taut (tight) throughout your waxing treatment and wax the bikini area in small patches. Parissa was include photo instructions with tips to get great bikini waxing results with minimum discomfort.\n\n*All Parissa was come with soothing and moisturizing Azulene Oil for aftercare. Azulene is the active ingredient of chamomile which has soothing and healing properties that minimize discomfort after waxing. Shaving can cause redness, rawness and quite a bit of discomfort when the hair is re-growing. Also, another downside is that shaving is only a 2 day solution and results in stubble. Chemical creams can be a solution for removing unwanted hair in the bikini area, however, because the bikini hair is usually dark and coarse, chemical creams may not be effective and may need to be left on the skin for a while to remove all the bikini hair which usually leads to skin sensitivity.\"\n\nParissa Quick &amp;amp; Easy Wax Strips for Face &amp;amp; Bikini, $9. Whole Foods and parissa.com."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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