Beauty Inside & Out | When bikini waxing, choose liquid over pads

I’ve heard tell that ingrown hairs happen to people who have curly or wavy hair. Seeing as how my hair is naturally wavy, I have this problem. I do everything I can to stop it from being a problem by exfoliating with a cactus cloth, but I always have a few ingrown hairs nonetheless. Anyway, I was looking for a product recommended to me by a former aesthetician called Tend Skin. I couldn’t find it at Ulta, but I did find these pads. Completely Bare Bikini Bump Pads claim to solve the ingrown hair problem. Well...let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Completely Bare Bikini Bump Blaster ingrown hair eliminating pads

For a container of 50 pads, it cost close to $10. They reminded me of those Clearasil acne pads I used in middle school. I’ve used them on my legs sporadically starting the second or third week after a wax. In addition to exfoliating with a cactus cloth, I didn’t especially notice this product stopping the red bumps or even bringing up the ingrown hairs. Is it worth it? Meh. Maybe not.

Tend Skin Liquid

I prefer Tend Skin liquid after a leg wax as opposed to these pads. Tend Skin does a good job of bringing the hair to the surface if it’s ingrown, and it also lessens the redness of any post waxing bumps. Tend Skin runs about $15 and I’ve found it at Ulta and Sephora.

This story was originally published November 30, 2015 at 12:03 PM with the headline "Beauty Inside & Out | When bikini waxing, choose liquid over pads."