Pressure When Applying Wax

Are you not sure how much pressure you should apply when laying a wax strip? This is something that doesn’t seem to be talked about as much as it should, but proper pressure is a very important step when applying a wax strip.

First, I’ll explain why using enough pressure is important. The goal with waxing is to remove the hair from the root. In order to do that, you need the wax to get as close to the base of the hair as possible. If you don’t get the wax as close to the base of the hair as possible, you run the risk of snapping the hair and the hair not being removed at all.

The main reason why people don’t use enough pressure when spreading a wax strip is they either don’t understand why pressure is important, or they are concerned they’re going to hurt their client. I hear this all the time, so many people are scared that they are going to hurt their client if they apply too much pressure, but I guarantee you that you are not hurting them. The only way you would hurt them is if you jab the stick into their skin which is something we would never do.

Let me show you the difference between a wax strip with one where not enough pressure is used, and the second strip where the correct amount of pressure is used.

In this first wax strip, you’ll see that I’m spreading the wax lightly on my skin. You can tell that I’m not using a lot of pressure because my skin underneath isn’t moving at all. This is not a good sign because the wax isn’t going to get as good of a grip on the hair.

In this second wax strip, I’m going to apply the correct amount of pressure. You’ll see my skin is slightly pulling underneath the wax strip, but not so much where you’re forcing it. The wax should glide on smoothly and evenly. This will ensure that the wax is fully adhering to the base of the hair and should be able to be pulled out from the root properly.

It might take a bit for you to understand how hard you should push when applying a strip, but eventually it will feel like second nature.

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[wsumfwu]

Hello Kirsten Thank you 😊 I'm a Esthetician and just started using hard wax .I do take all of your Advice and know that the temperature of the room and the consistency are the key factors the room was not to cold or hot .just at room temperature.. i had the right consistency but the wax would harden after a minute then I would turn 1:02 it up a little then the wax would become to hot....this continued, very frustrating. I use the equipro warmer and cirepil by perron-Rigot wax. Not sure why this is happening. I turned on the AC( very little ) nothing changed .
I do like using this type of wax rather then strip wax. If you can help me out that would be great, .from Canada

[bjlanc]

Please help me. What kind of wax do you use in your demos, being able to spread it and create a lip? I try with Kolua wax for coarse hair (the blue beads) and I spread it and by i get to the end it's already hard. Can't make a lip or anything. I tried different temps, burned my chest today trying with a hotter temp, still the same problem. It's like I'm waxing a frozen corpse! Yours is like you're using molasses! Please help.