I’ll spare you (most of) the innuendos and personal anecdotes, but it’s difficult when a story like New Jersey banning Brazilian waxes crosses your desk. The wise cracks write themselves.
It’s difficult to understand what New Jersey is trying to accomplish by banning Brazilian waxes. With do-it-yourself home waxing kits available at any drug store, a ban on professional bikini waxes will push New Jersey salon customers to try their hand at it, which will undoubtedly lead to more burns and pain than a wax done by a licensed esthetician. The two bad experience customer complaints leading to this legal action are merely a shadow of the burns people will self-inflict.
In fairness to the New Jersey government, they are suggesting enforcing an existing ban, not creating a new one. However, why not remove the law altogether, so reputable beauty salons can offer the waxing service and implement safety regulations so those who are injuring their clients can be fined?
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust anyone – not even myself – but a trained cosmetology professional to do a procedure like that on me. What are your thoughts on this hairy situation? (I’m sorry! I tried!)
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Yeah, even when I’m instructing people on how to use home wax kits that we sell at the store I’m working in, its the barest bones crash course summary of what I learned in esthetician class, and so it definately makes me wonder what happens when people just jump right into it themselves.
I think this is a bad idea. It’s a very popular service right now, and if people can’t get it done in a salon they will no doubt try to do it themselves. I’m a licensed esthetician and I have a very hard time waxing my own bikini so I have it done by another esthetician. It’s not easy to do on yourself. A friend of mine decided she was going to do her own leg waxing instead of have me do it, so I instructed her over the phone. Even so, she ended up with a huge bruise on her leg from incorrect procedure! I think it’s very dangerous to have people trying to wax their own bikini at home instead of in a clean, safe salon in the hands of an experienced esthetician. My 2 cents.
Definitely a dangerous situation! Does the New Jersey government really not have better things to spend their time on? I understand the urge to protect consumers, but this type of legislation seems like it would have the opposite effect if people try to do it themselves!
Greta Blog Entry! I could not agree more and we are heading a grassroots campaign and sending letters to the AG’s office asking it to be overturn,. We have the support of the ASSP who were the ones wrote a formal position paper for the NJ Board to vote on and they already did! they said NO so hopefully we can get the Division of Law to investigate and over turn it to include Brazilian, Chest and Back waxing which are also illegal.
Please support us, visit our website, download the form and fax it over.
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Two people have complained, so NJ is going to deny everyone the experience and expertise of a licensed professional? This is the state that won’t let you pump your own gas, yet it forces us to wax our own bikini lines?
I do giggle at the thought of the cops busting up an illegal waxing racket.
How about this puntastic article about the NJ waxing ban from MSNBC? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29675184/
I just can’t get over this. In all of history, with literally thousands of brazilians performed all over the world, every single day, there are, as far as we know, just the two complaints, both restricted to a single state, in relatively close proximity to one another. That is unfortunate, and, I am sure, estheticians everywhere mourn with these two complainants, and, I am also sure, we feel their pain.
But, realistically, restricting estheticians from performing Brazilians is not very likely to happen in the first place. In the second place, if New Jersey succeeds in quashing the Brazilian, people will just go to New York State, or, frankly, any surrounding state, to get their waxy fix.
Restriction of Brazilians will be driven underground, so far underground in fact, that the next thing you know, it’ll be dirty back alleys, cheap facilities, possibly double-dipped wax, and, absolutely, gun-toting thugs conducting desperate women, and men, into reeking bodegas filled with the wretched refuse of unfulfilled dreams, practicing in the gaslight. . .unlicensed waxers plying their trade. Oh, the humanity!
Seriously, how disturbed do you have to be to take two single incidents out of what must be thousands and thousands, to “enforce” this law. And, if waxing is actually “verboten” (I don’t think the statute reads quite that specifically), sorry Brazilians in particular are verboten, then what does that say about our skills as estheticians, and the value the State of New Jersey places on them?
Finally, do the powers that be in New Jersey actually believe that restricting the practice will diminish demand? Everybody waxes. EVERYBODY. Some more than others, but, just think about the people you know, your personal circle of friends, and analyze the percentage of them that get waxed. If you’re anything like most of the rest of us, it’s probably up near 80% or more. The demand won’t decrease. Quality absolutely will if this “ban” is upheld.
This is nuts.
james.
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I have to agree, that banning this would lead to at home injuries, which many of my clients have admited to ( dozens ). Education is the key and most estheticians are not taught by an instructor on how to do a proper brazilian! They are taught how to do bikini line and the rest is trial and error! There are ALOT of complaints ( probably more than those 2 ). About 80% of my clients who have had previous brazilian waxing say they have had bad experiences, that is why they come to me! Sugaring needs to be put out there and made known to estheticians, salon owners, schools and most important consumers! I started doing brazilian waxing on clients and i decided to do sugaring instead, as i was shown how to do a proper brazilian with sugar and i had them done myself, so i could tell my clients that with honesty!
Good Luck!
I personally love getting a brazilian. I go to an Urban Nervana and they are very good and professional. I haven’t had any problems at all except a few bad bumps that go away soon. Im not going to lie it hurts like hell the first time, but after the first its not so bad there after. I plan on doing this for a very long time. It makes me feel very clean. I think it should be a choice and people should do their research before choosing an esthetician.