Sweet Discovery: A Review of the Barenaked Body Sugaring Salon

In this age wherein women can enhance their natural assets with the help of beauty breakthroughs, they are willing to invest in even painful but effective means. Waxing, for instance, is one such beautifying service that they are willing to go through each month just to have silky smooth and hair-free skin. There are many benefits to waxing, of course, despite the pain and discomfort. Customers get to avoid the bumpy skin and coarse hair re-growth from shaving or plucking, and women get to feel cleaner and sexier.

But did you know that there’s a gentler and safer alternative to hair removal, aside from treatments and waxing? We recently got to try the latest in hair removal from the Barenaked Body Sugaring Salon in Makati. From the name of the salon itself, you might be thinking, “What exactly is body sugaring, and how does it work to remove unwanted body hair?”

Body sugaring has actually been around for centuries. In fact, it was an ancient practice among Egyptian women who would use sugar paste, a syrupy-like material, to remove hair. Because it was made from 100 percent natural and safe ingredients, even pregnant women would do it up to their ninth month of gestation.

 

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Barenaked Body Sugaring Salon has adopted this age-old beauty ritual and combined it with modern technology for naturally beautiful, hair-free skin. Their rooms are nicely furnished with a bed, mirror and storage for your clothes and other belongings. They also take cleanliness and hygiene to the next level by wearing disposable gloves during the sugaring process, and ensuring their tools like trimming scissors and other implements are carefully sanitized. They also have a stress ball to help ease the customer’s discomfort!

As Barenaked Body Sugaring Salon has already opened its business for franchise, some branches have actually added a few complementing services. The branch in Glorietta 5, Makati, for instance, offers customers a variety of body scrubs. The body scrubs are recommended as a pre- treatment to help soften the hair and facilitate easier removal. During body scrub sessions, customers are given disposable underwear for their convenience. They could also spoil themselves in the shower room with a complete set of bath gels, lotions and powders. As a fitting end to the session, a soothing green tea is then served.

Body massage services are also offered in the following branches: Katipunan, SM Fairview and SM Taytay.

One of the techniques that Barenaked Body Sugaring employs is the removal of hair in the same direction of its growth, so the pain is considerably reduced. With this technique, there is less breakage, dead skin cells are removed, thereby exfoliating skin, and ingrown hair is eliminated. And you need not even worry about having to grow the hair to a certain length first before having it waxed because the sugar is supposed to extract even very short hair.

 

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The best thing about getting your hair sugared is that it never burns your skin and the hair becomes refined, so much so that eventually, customers may not see the need anymore for waxing. The staff gladly promotes this fact among the salon’s patrons, and they are more than happy to emphasize that they can actually lose their customers in the long run -- because their sugaring really works!

Barenaked Body Sugaring Salon has branches in the following locations: Basement 1, SM City Taytay; Lower Ground Floor, The New Annex, SM City Fairview; Xanland Place Katipunan and in Glorietta 5.

For more information, visit www.barenaked-sugaring.com or their Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/barenaked.

 

Photos by Stephanie F. Esguerra, except where otherwise specified