Shhhh, I got a Vajacial!

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It seems that all those Brazilian bikini waxes have taken a toll, and now it’s time for the Vajacial.

Thank “Sex and the City” for the obsession with a hairless nether region, and California’s Stript Wax Bar for bringing us the Vajacial — an answer to the ingrown hairs and red bumps that some women experience after a bikini wax.

The Vajacial is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a facial for the vagina. The demand for the service has increased 30 percent each year.

The Vajacial was a “lifesaver” for Christina from San Francisco when she was headed on a honeymoon trip with her husband. She said she’d heard about the Vajacial, and considered it “absurd” at first. But then she got her usual Brazilian wax and broke out in red bumps. “It looked like I had an STD,” she said. “There was no way I could sit by the pool, nothing. It was awful.”

She opted for a Vajacial. In many ways, it resembles a facial. The procedure begins with a cleanse and anti-bacterial wash of the bikini area, Goldman said, and is followed by a papaya enzyme mask that gets rid of skin cells that trap hairs. Next, comes extraction. In the same way that a facial extracts goo from the pores on your face, a Vajacial extracts ingrown hairs with a pair of tweezers. Finally, another mask is applied. At SKYN, there are four choices,  correcting discoloration, tightening, brightening, and plumping.

Goldman attributes the growth in the Vajacial business to more women trying to achieve a hairless look. “It’s a look that a majority of people want right now. They remove the hair, but it never goes away, so they tend to shave or wax more. Shaving especially irritates the skin.”

Alexis Wolfer, editor of TheBeautyBean.com, said the Vajacial and its spinoffs result from “the trend of women hyper-focusing on every last flaw in themselves. We see celebrities at the beach looking great, and we’re using that same lens on ourselves.”

But make no mistake about it, even if Vajacial becomes a household word, it’s not something, unlike a regular facial, that anyone would do for fun. “It’s definitely a procedure,” said Christina, the San Francisco woman who had one. “I would never get it for therapeutic reasons,” she said.

Wolfer agreed. “This isn’t going to be next Swedish massage.”

Vajacial or Bikini N Bum Facial at SKYN: As seen on Hollywood Ex’s! Sometimes skin in those more intimate parts isn’t quite ready for a close-up. You can fix this problem. On gently cleansed skin, the technician first deeply exfoliates ingrown hairs and clogged follicles with diamond microdermabrasion or an organic enzyme. Skin is then steamed, ingrown hairs and acne are extracted, and a soothing organic mask is applied to close pores and tighten the skin. The mask is then cleaned off and a session of LED Light Therapy addresses sun and pigmentation spots: green light slows melanin production to stop pigmentation formation, blue light kills bacteria and acne, and yellow light detoxifies and replenishes cells. This treatement tightens, lightens, and plumps!

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