Speed Waxing with Hard Wax Tips and Tricks
Always maintain your wax
Start your day with a full pot - if your day is not fully booked, you still want to be prepared for walk ins
Maintain the temperature of your wax pot. Wax needs to be a brownie batter consistency. Test the temperature on your inner wrist before waxing your client.
Add wax one scoop at a time into the pot and towards the edge and stir. This will achieve that ‘brownie batter’ consistency, with no beads throughout the wax
Add wax between and during services. Once the pot is lower than half full it gets harder to melt down wax without turning the pot up and then the wax is too hot for waxing.
Keep your pot covered between guests, besides when checking it. For sanitation and temperature regulating. Check it and stir it so it doesn’t get too hot/to maintain the consistency. Wax tends to get hard on top if uncovered and hard in the middle if not stirred.
Efficiently Prepping Client:
Spray one cotton round with oil and one with cleanser and then go to cleanse/oil the guest. This will save you time on walking back and forth. If it’s a big service spray more than one cotton round with cleanser/oil-again saving time.
Spray over the garbage, saves you time on cleaning up.
Use a tissue to wipe excess oil.
Waxing:
Check consistency, scoop onto the stick then twirl. If the wax runs off your stick it’s too warm, if it appears fine check it on the inside of your wrist.
Lay the first strip, take notice of the thickness of the hair for how thick your strip should be. Thick hair = thick strip, thin hair = thin strip
Comfort check - “Is temperature ok?”
Pay attention to the patterns and placement of strips - go with hair growth so you don’t break any hairs/cause ingrowns - focus on where you are putting the lip of the strip, try to put it where there is no hair so it is easier for you to lift
For brazilians, the top strips width is different on everyone. For best results use tip of stick and go with hair growth.
Stir wax! If you do not this causes the wax to get hot at the bottom and hard at the top.
When laying strips focus on pressure and smoothing out wax. Leaving globs of wax will not only take long to harden but will also break hairs if they even remove at all.
If wax is taking while to harden, it may be too warm - stir the pot/ add wax to the pot/ turn the temperature down
Get to know your strips. Tacky strips help take out fine stubborn hairs.