Hi bdchc!
It really seems like waxing as well as tweezing or epiliating causes more long-term harm than good. So many members write about darker and coarser hairs after repeated waxing. The same thing happened to me on my upper arms–I thought that I’d clear out some of that “baby hair” growing on my upper arms by tweezing–big mistake, it came back darker and thicker in some places! I’m not taking tweezers near there again! I guess that any hair removal from the roots could cause this reaction.
You mentioned that you’ve switched to sugaring–is this any “safer” because it doesn’t remove the entire hair follicle from the root? What kind of results have you had so far? How does it compare “painwise” to waxing?