Shame Part 2:
In 2017 I got my esthetician’s license, learning skincare, makeup and waxing skills.
Originally I had planned to get my license to do makeup professionally, but quickly realized skincare was more my speed, I do loveeee makeup tho 💋
As a finished up my licensing program I was very lucky and got a job pretty quickly after graduating, throwing myself into the ring, I was ready ishhh to start taking clients.
One of the most popular services in waxing is of course, the Brazilian Wax, and I quickly learned how to preform one properly, effectively and comfortably. Thanks to Heidi @junebugskinbody for teaching me and being my first boss 💜
Now waxing is not a service I currently offer but not for the reason you might think.
I stopped offering body waxing because it was sooo uncomfortable.
Again not in the way you might think.
I have been a person dealing with physical pain for a long time, reiki and my spiritual development journey has helped me endlessly in healing and dealing with this pain.
But the body waxing was extremely exhausting for my personal body, so I stopped offering it.
But here’s what I did learn when doing Brazilians and here’s why it helped me begin to heal shame around my body, especially around my naked body.
Every person with a vagina is different !!!! All vaginas look different, hair grows in all sorts of ways, the skin around and on your vagina varies, hyper and hypo pigmentation is normal, scarring, ingrowns, everyone has something. Not to mention the butthole ! Wow 😮 but for real, doing this service helped me understand and see, my body is beautiful and so is everyone else’s.
Then I began to do spray tanning,I have always been more of the pale emo gothy type and didn’t really know what to expect.
When you do a spray tan the client is completely naked 🤭🤭
Bending over moving around, all the angles, you know what I’m saying.
And these beautiful women did not give one fuck or one shit about their body being naked, which inspired me to see it’s OKAY to be naked, to have a body, for people to see your body. And naked bodies are notttttt inherently sexual.
This is where the healing continued….
