Sugar Took Off All My Chest Hair, But I'm OK

I was sugared for the first time (and honestly, probably not the last) for work and I didn't even regret all my life choices. I did it for the Facebook views, for National Men's Health Week, and most importantly, for the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, where I will be riding a float this weekend.  Here's a thing about mermen: They have scales, fishtails, metal shoulder pads sometimes and even human butts, but they never have body hair. So it looked like I needed to get some stuff off my chest.  Instead of waxing, I thought sugaring would be an interesting alternative: Ancient Egyptians, obsessed with removing as much hair from their bodies as possible by any means necessary, found that when you mixed sugar, citrus juice and water together in the right proportions, you get a globular sticky ball that's perfect for ripping out your hair by its roots. I'd read in pamphlets that sugaring is gentler than waxing, organic (just sugar, lemon juice and water -- you can technically eat it) and lasts a lot longer than other treatments. So I took a video crew down to Sugaring NYC in downtown Manhattan for a Facebook Live segment.  I'll be honest, I was scared. A male stripper I'd previously interviewed told me sugaring was more painful than piercing his nipples or appearing in BDSM videos. The crew and I walked past a law office and another office with "Catastrophe" in its name and entered the salon: a pink cloud of a room and model of ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news