I was just wondering when it comes to beauty treatments how are you getting by during lockdown. Are you plucking your eyebrows? doing your own waxing? or letting it all grow until you can get to a salon?
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Have always plucked my own eyebrows, always done my own waxing. However my nails I get done professionally with shellac so they are weak and short at the moment!
Always do my own plucking of eyebrows and I shave rather than wax everywhere else. My nails are just natural but i am missing haircuts and highlights which I can’t do myself hence why I now have candy floss pink hair to try and cover the roots 
So glad I have mine microbladed, would hate for them to be all out of shape and stuff so just pluck in between.
I've been doing my own waxing but can't wait to get back in for someone else to do it
I've been playing around with so much filler, my face is a different shape to what it was before lockdown
I done my own dermaplaning and pluck my eyebrows. Also cut my hair as it was driving me mad, my roots are insane but I don't dare dye it myself. And that's it really. Might paint my nails but I miss shellac 
Ive been plucking my eyebrows so they are actually ok. Shaving everywhere else.
Oh I forgot to add I shave whereI done my own dermaplaning and pluck my eyebrows. Also cut my hair as it was driving me mad, my roots are insane but I don't dare dye it myself. And that's it really. Might paint my nails but I miss shellac
necessary although I've been tempted to give up on that
me too especially since I’m isolated away from my boyfriendOh I forgot to add I shave where
necessary although I've been tempted to give up on that
Box dying my greys.
Veet wax strips for the tash.
just waiting for nail salons to reopen
Veet wax strips for the tash.
just waiting for nail salons to reopen
I am epilating my legs instead of shaving because I got bored of shaving. It was a little painful but bearable and I got overly confident and epilated my underarms. Let me tell you, don’t do that unless you have taken a painkiller and have a large glass of white wine to hand - ouch! It was a case of “I have started so I shall finish”. However, having seen the results which is so far 4 days without regrowth, it was worth it.
My haircut is the same as the one in my avatar and I have been cutting my own fringe when it starts to go into my eyes. It’s a graduated bob, so the back was cut right to the nape of my neck. It is now growing out horribly, but I’m not letting anyone but my hairdresser touch it! I also need my honey blonde highlights redoing.
I am also desperate for a pedicure. I have shellac polish on my toes that has also grown out, leaving large cuticle gaps. I’m not going to buy specialist things to remove it myself so I’m just going to wait.
I always pluck my own eyebrows so at least that’s not a change!
It was a little painful but bearable and I got overly confident and epilated my underarms. Let me tell you, don’t do that unless you have taken a painkiller and have a large glass of white wine to hand - ouch! It was a case of “I have started so I shall finish”. However, having seen the results which is so far 4 days without regrowth, it was worth it.My haircut is the same as the one in my avatar and I have been cutting my own fringe when it starts to go into my eyes. It’s a graduated bob, so the back was cut right to the nape of my neck. It is now growing out horribly, but I’m not letting anyone but my hairdresser touch it! I also need my honey blonde highlights redoing.
I am also desperate for a pedicure. I have shellac polish on my toes that has also grown out, leaving large cuticle gaps. I’m not going to buy specialist things to remove it myself so I’m just going to wait.
I always pluck my own eyebrows so at least that’s not a change!
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Oooh me too! It has to be done (pink hair that is)Always do my own plucking of eyebrows and I shave rather than wax everywhere else. My nails are just natural but i am missing haircuts and highlights which I can’t do myself hence why I now have candy floss pink hair to try and cover the roots
The actual state of my eyebrows makes me look like I had a fringe cut in. No way am I touching them myself. It will bring back traumatic memories of the late 90’s early 00’s
I usually have my facial hair threaded, but I’ve been using wax strips on my Tom Sellick And tweezing out the stray eyebrow hairs. Hair on head, roots only, messaged My hairdresser who told me what to order and I’ve done my lockdown roots twice, my hair actually looks ok, when I can be arsed to dry it. My nails are normally gel and thats the treatment I miss the most, my nails are shocking. Razor leg hair and big toe hair
I bought a Cuccio nail powder starter kit, as the local nail salon closed. they are not as perfect as the salon , but in the three times I have done them I have got better. I have already saved over £30 on what I would have spent at the salon. Just got to work out on doing a set with tips !
This is one this i love about lockdown. I was spending £35 a month on my eyebrows trecking over an hour to my eyebrow girl with another £10 for the train to get to her. Well, i learned how to wax and tint my own brows and i will never pay for them to be done again just put vaseline around your skin around your brow, tint for 10 mins, follow the natural shape of your brow and wax or tweeze! Perfect!
just put vaseline around your skin around your brow, tint for 10 mins, follow the natural shape of your brow and wax or tweeze! Perfect!I’ve never had any beauty treatments done by someone else besides botox and a twice yearly haircut! So isn’t really affecting me, I pluck my own eyebrows and I have to keep my nails short for work anyway. My hair is just it’s natural colour now but I am actually hoping to get it done professionally when this is all over ... just have to resist the temptation to do it myself!
Miss threading on my chin, so shaving, skin a bit sore! Can't use creams etc, they bring my skin up.
Using hair dye that my hairdresser advised.
One thing I am finding very hard is trying to pluck my eyebrows when I wear glasses, just how do you do it?
Using hair dye that my hairdresser advised.
One thing I am finding very hard is trying to pluck my eyebrows when I wear glasses, just how do you do it?
I don’t have a tip for the eyebrows, but, you could try a facial epilator instead of shaving? Or an IPL machine if the hair is dark enough. Shaving must be quite painful.
My hairdresser won't recommend dye in case something happens 
I'm getting nervous I'm going to find greys, I know they're lurking in there somewhere.
I'm getting nervous I'm going to find greys, I know they're lurking in there somewhere.