The most memorable — and visible — came after a botched home wax job, when I managed to rip off half my right eyebrow. Two women in New Jersey were recently hospitalized after winding up on the wrong end of a bad bikini wax. Both women received “Brazilians” — the style popularized by South American women that removes 99 percent of bikini hair and 100 percent of your dignity — and wound up with infections in their private regions. After a misfire with the muslin strip, she pulled one leg off its perch and “heard the slamming of the cell door” as the wax left on her bikini area glued her lady parts together. Desperate to melt the wax, she jumped into a tub filled with water hot enough “to sterilize surgical equipment,” and promptly glued her bottom to the tub. read more

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The most memorable — and visible — came after a botched home wax job, when I managed to rip off half my right eyebrow. Two women in New Jersey were recently hospitalized after winding up on the wrong end of a bad bikini wax. Both women received “Brazilians” — the style popularized by South American women that removes 99 percent of bikini hair and 100 percent of your dignity — and wound up with infections in their private regions. What’s more, New Jersey officials briefly considered a ban on Brazilian waxes after one of the women filed a lawsuit. After a misfire with the muslin strip, she pulled one leg off its perch and “heard the slamming of the cell door” as the wax left on her bikini area glued her lady parts together. Desperate to melt the wax, she jumped into a tub filled with water hot enough “to sterilize surgical equipment,” and promptly glued her bottom to the tub. read more

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She could belt out those Disney ballads with the best of them, a legacy she’d earned from her porcelain-faced forebears, the Snow Whites and Sleeping Beauties of earlier generations. The saddest part was that I believed, in the magical thinking that allows children to endorse Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, that I had a great voice. This lasted as far as sixth grade chorus tryouts when I learned, to my everlasting chagrin, that I didn’t have the pipes to be a Disney princess. If there’s one characteristic every Disney girl has got going on, it’s a flowing mane and I’ve been working on mine for years). In this month’s Elle magazine, writer Johanna Cox talks about her experience going from long locks to a pixie cut and asks Bravo’s "The Millionaire Matchmaker" Patti Stanger for her opinion. read more

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