IIVeXXII - I can totally relate to your frustration. I waxed my legs & bikini line for 17 YEARS and never got good results. I would notice new hair growth within a week after my wax, I just figured this was the next stage of hairs growing in… my hair grew fast, lucky me. Then after all that time of waxing, it seemed my hairs grew back weaker and I became more & more prone to ingrowns (it seemed like the hair was so weak it didn’t push through the surface as it should) - Oh and I had hundreds of people try to explain to me about the benefits of exfoliating, I just needed to exfoliate more and more! Little did they know every single shower I took (which was daily) I was exfoliating every possible area I could… and it never helped. It was also a big time waster too, taking 25 minute showers became annoying. I think the final straw for me was when my waxer (she always used hot wax) looked closely at a strip and noticed my leg hairs looked frayed, weak… and they were breaking off at the surface, there was no root attached. I said that’s it – and started doing laser hair removal instead.
That’s just my experience – I think some of us aren’t good waxing candidates. However, I have a friend who waxed her legs for 3 years and now claims she barely has to wax them anymore… go figure. 17 years compared to 3 years — life is not fair.
It sounds like you just started your waxing journey – so maybe things will start improving as you get more into it? I never considered waxing every couple of days at the onset, I always thought I shouldn’t have to… but maybe my experience would have turned out better if I had.