My friend Bekka was so kind to offer to try the sugaring technique after all the awful things I had to say about it. I gave her the recipe I found on Spa Index. Here is her feedback:

Similar experience to yours. However, I had the warning of not burning myself…heh. Anyway, I heated up the mixture and waited almost 30 minutes before it was cool enough to try on my legs. It was starting to thicken up and if I could have spread it more thin it might have worked better. It only pulled up about half the hair covered by the strip. I tried different tools to spread it to see if I could get it a bit thinner without, of course, heating up the sugar. It just didn’t work very well. Not worth the hassle. It smelled good though.

I’ve always wanted to try home waxing but even the store bought kits don’t do much for me. Oh, well. Maybe one day I’ll bump into a money tree and be able to just go to the salon for waxing when needed. Or, better yet, get laser hair removal done!

I couldn’t agree more!