The French have such a spa in their underground subway system.
Oh, I can see it. I'm not a spa-treatments person generally, but I've gotten my legs waxed a couple of times, and I don't like shaving, so I'd probably do it more if it weren't so annoying to find time during the day for it. If you're a heavy-travel person, and someone who does the professional grooming routine, I can totally see thinking of the two hours before flight time you're supposed to arrive at the airport as dead time you could schedule for getting waxed.
Yeah, that is basically inconceivable to me. I actually do the full monty waxing three or four times a year, and I don't even find it that uncomfortable (I find eyebrow waxing much worse), but never, ever in a thousand years as a spur of the moment airport treatment.
Maybe one flying to visit a lover?
5 would seem inadvisable -- isn't there a day of recuperation needed?
5 - Having never done this treatment myself, I'm not an expert but from what I've heard it's something one wants to do a couple of days before visiting a lover/wearing a skimpy bathing suit/etc. so that the swelling goes down.
Did we not learn anything from those pictures of Britney?
Nah, my bet is that the market is the overscheduled businesswoman who does professional grooming but doesn't have time for it; that's who'd know the spa was there, and think of it when they'd arrived early for a flight or had a delay. The 'flying to visit a lover' market just can't be big enough to sustain a business.
5, 6, 7: Yeah, it isn't really an instant "aren't I pretty and depilated" dealio. One is sort of splotchy or poxy for a day.
If it's any comparison, I almost got a haircut at the barbershop in the Minneapolis airport a couple of weeks ago. I decided to hit the bar, instead.
Having never done this treatment myself
Well goodness, Becks. Get crackin' already! There's a blog post just waiting to happen.
Well, most people don't go to the airport in order to buy an iPod, either, but they still sell them there.
Get crackin' already!
I'm guessing they charge separately for this procedure.
From vending machines, no less.
% wasn't serious; 3/8 are obviously the right thinking. Although: just because this is on the menu doesn't mean it's a very successful product, or that really anyone actually even *is* getting the brazilian at the airport. I'm sure some do, of course, sure. But I certainly doubt the spa would stay in business were that their only offering.
13: Standard part of the Brazilians, actually! Although as a waxer said to me once, by suggesting that I leave that area well enough alone, in a heavy Russian accent, "God, he put hairs there for reason."
God, he put hairs there for reason.
"I now have a great respect for anal-hair. Like everything in this world God created, it has its mighty purpose in existence. It was only after I had removed it that I started to learn how much I had been taking it for granted."
17 - as opposed to the hair everywhere else, which was a careless accident???
21: They spread of their own free will, outward from the ass.
Also, did anything important happen here since Wednesday? I've barely touched a computer since then, though I have cleaned up enough vomit to earn in-service hours as a hospice nurse after some evil bug rolled through my household like the Germans through Poland. Saturday and Sunday were my turn hosting the foul thing.
I've never been so happy to be at work in all my life.
23: I'm trying to figure out what could happen at Unfogged that would be really classifiable as important. But you might email Ogged in case a post had gotten deleted or something.
Apo can see the deleted posts by looking under "Entries" in the MT control panel.
re: 23
Winter vomiting disease, probably. It's been through my workplace recently [I skipped it due to having l33t immune system].
And welcome back, apo, you birth control poster boy.
26: Ah, I did see that one before it vanished.
Oh holy crap, I would totally have gone for that on my last long trip before the return journey home. There was no point in getting it done before you leave, b/c I wouldn't get the full usage without my boyfriend for days and it would be fuzzy by the time he got to me; and there was no time in getting it done while on the trip, b/c I was too busy. But the only time I have to kill on these things are at the airport, b/c I build in extra time for semi-probable extra searching; if TSA decides to leave me alone I might as well celebrate.
The full-probable search is much more fun. Next time ask for it by name.
I am suspecting that the words "brazilian" and "crack" are flagged for special searching when heard in the airport.
I missed a deleted post? Motherfuck.
Nothing earthshattering. You could email someone if you wanted to know.
It pertains to an individual whom I'll call "Phhrf" and a personal situation he was involved in.
17: See, this is what happens when I engage in armchair cosmetology. From now on, it's only experimental cosmetology for me!
I have the deleted post and its (first?) 149 comments still in my RSS feed, I assume I'm not the only one.
I missed that too until I checked my feed. Sweet. Way to go, person-who-shall-remain-unnamed.
OK, now I'm feeling bad that I missed it.
That'll teach me to spend time with my family.
OK, now I'm feeling bad that I missed it.
Don't. It was a good post, but not Unfogged-historically great or anything.