Two Years of HAIR!

Many of you know that my brother Sami left on his mission yesterday. I have a few pictures to post but first I have to get something out there on the interweb so I can stick to it... I'm not cutting my hair until my brother gets back from his mission... I will trim (one inch or less) thin and layer but no more than an inch comes off the bottom every three months. Thats eight trims in the two years. Crazy.


Anyway, here are some pictures, Sami gets back May/June 2012... YIKES!

My sister Mariam, my mom (yes she looks like she's about to cry) and Sami. 

Elder, We are so proud of him!

Lastly, my hair... Two more years and its already so long... EFF!

A New Nair Experience...

Ever since I saw the new Nair product that you can use in the shower I've been wanting to try it. When I was in Walmart yesterday I finally looked at it and to my surprise it was only five dollars! Needless to say, I bought it. When I got home I decided to go ahead and try it rather than wait until the next day. When I opened the package and read the directions it was very clear that you had to put the product on before getting into the shower. So thats exactly what I did. I followed the directions very closely and applied the product onto my legs with the green and white sponge. (using the green side, as per the instructions) As I finished my left leg, which is the leg that I started with I realized that there may NOT be enough to finish both legs. I thought to myself "no wonder it was only $5....." I managed to squeeze out enough to finish both legs. I waited one minute to get into the shower. Then the 2 minutes IN the shower. This is when I took the white side of the sponge and rubbed a small part to see if the hair was coming off... It wasn't. So I waited another two minutes. (According to the instructions you CANNOT leave it on longer than ten minutes) After the second two minutes I rubbed another spot to see if it had come off.. Still nothing. So I waited another two minutes. During this two minutes I thought again to myself: "five dollars.. crappy.. I'm just going to rub it all off this time"... Thats exactly what I did. And of course, only a little came off. About a minute later I realized that my legs were on FIRE!!! Not literally of course, thats pretty much impossible when you are completely soaked with shower water. My legs were burning.. I turned the water a little colder to put out the "flame". It felt a little better but now they weren't just burning they were itching too!

Let me stop here for a minute to say that I have used nair before and it has worked well. But the smell of the chemicals was gross so I only did it a few times before. That is why I wanted to try the shower one.. "Hello!! It just rinses off?! Yay!" .....

Ok now to continue with my story.. Itching.. So I scrubbed my legs hard with the sponge. It felt SO good. Between the scrubbing and the cold water it felt real nice. I looked and I realized that as I was scrubbing the hair was coming off too!!! I was sooo happy!! But I was still a little angry that I had to scrub my itchy, burning legs to get the hair to come off.... The things girls go through....

When I got out of the shower my legs were still burning and itchy and now red! I patted my legs dry as per the instructions once again. After this i just got into bed to try to go to sleep even though my legs were still burning and itching. I decided that having blankets on would probably feel good. WRONG. So wrong. It made my legs burn even worse. So after about ten minutes of suffering I went out into the livingroom and got an icepack. At this point only a few spots on my legs were burning. "Where?" You ask? Right above my knee on the inside, outer calf and right above my feet. Thats where I put the ice. I sat there for about 20 minutes alternating where the ice packs were. Finally I started feeling better so I went to bed.

This morning when I got up my legs were fine. Except they are still bright red and my knee's itch. But they are HAIRLESS!! ... well almost. There are a few places that it didn't work but it almost did so I am happy.... Other than my suffering. I'm going to stick with shaving from now on...