With the recent surge of warmer weather more and more guys are following the trend to wax their chests either as a pre holiday waxing treatment or as part of a regular male grooming regime and in the hope that even here in good old blighty they will get the opportunity to sunbathe!
We want to explain the chest waxing treatment, offer pre waxing advice and also aftercare guidelines and look at some of the best ways to avoid a break out...
Chest hair is generally fairly deep rooted hair, close to the heart so nice strong hair with a good rich blood supply!! Often chest waxing is seen as a more uncomfortable male waxing treatment as opposed to the back waxing or other male body waxing, but it can be fairly painless if it’s carried out properly.
It’s not uncommon for virgin waxers to have an initial reaction after their first chest wax, with small bumps and redness, this can be normal for a lot of guys who have never waxed before and generally within a few days the chest settles down again. I find that clients who take anti histamine on their way of their waxing and for a few days after seem to have very little reaction. We have a lot of clients who wax and most of these clients find that the anti histamine has helped but we always remind clients that they need to check that it’s okay for them to take anti histamine before they do as we only recommend these as a way of preventing the reaction on the skin.
We generally trim back body hair if it’s really long before I begin any waxing and then cleanse the skin before applying a small amount of pre waxing oil, the oil allows the wax to cling to the hair and not to the skin and this makes the hair removal so much more comfortable.
For most of our male chest waxing treatments we use two waxing methods, we apply non strip waxes on certain areas and then we also use strip waxes on other parts. We find that some areas can be more sensitive so the non strip waxes work better in those parts. We do also offer a full chest and abs wax with non strip wax for the whole area as some clients prefer this method of waxing. Our waxing price list has all these treatments listed.
The strip wax used is Cristal Ocean by Perron Rigot this is a hypoallergenic wax so this will minimise the reaction on the skin. We do not use any roller waxing method for any of my waxing treatments as we find that it can drag on the hair and can be very uncomfortable for the client so I don’t use them.
At the end of the wax, after we have used Jasmine oil and cleansers, we then apply a suitable after waxing moisturiser to soothe the chest area.
As with all waxing procedures clients need to avoid touching the area and to keep the skin clean and cool. If clients are coming straight from work to their appointment it’s often best if they can bring a clean cotton loose fitting t-shirt to change into at the end of the treatment.
