GENERAL SUGARING QUESTIONS

The Practice Patch is the test area on your skin where you will practice sugaring and learn how to flick.

Just like most skin-care products, we advise you practice using Sugar Me Smooth on the inside of your wrist before attempting another areas. We suggest this for a few reasons:

1.  Testing the sugar on the wrist will tell you if you'll have a reaction to the sugar before putting it in more intimate or sensitive areas like the bikini or face. Our sugar is 100% all natural, made with only sugar, lemons, and water, so there shouldn't be a reaction. 

2.  Practicing on the wrist will allow you to master the technique before moving to more sensitive, difficult areas like the bikini , underarm, face, etc. The wrist doesn't have a lot of hair and has naturally tight skin so practicing there should not cause unnecessary pain.

3.  Warning: Customers that do not do the Practice Patch on the inside of the wrist, but do it where they were planning to sugar anyway report more pain, redness, and irritation. Start at the wrist and save yourself the frustration!

The different sized flickers were carefully chosen and some are better for use than others, depending on the area. Each individual is different and will prefer different flickers for different areas. For beginners, we suggest starting with the Small Flicker as it is smaller and easier to manage!

The Large Flicker is great for use on large areas such as:

Back

Chest

Legs

Arms

The Small Flicker is great for use:

Cheek

Lip

Arm

Bikini / Brazilian

Underarm

The Spot Flicker is great for use:

Eyebrow 

Upper Lip

Tough areas of the Bikini / Brazilian

Toes / Fingers

Yes! ALL sugar will work on ALL areas.

The Bikini and Face sugars are infused with Licorice Root to help reduce sting and redness in sensitive areas, so we suggest that if you are wanting to sugar a sensitive area (bikini, face, underarm) that these sugars be used. However, if you purchased the Body jar, it will still work on the sensitive ares!

Redness is typically nothing to worry about, however the following may be reasons why you turned red and how to prevent it in the future!

1.  Redness occurs as blood rushes to provide nutrients and healing to an area. Having just sugared, hair was pulled out of the root and the body's immediate reaction is to FIX!

2.  Redness will go away within a few hours at most. Following a sugaring session with the Soothing Mist / Soothing Solution will reduce redness and soothe the skin!

3. The best way to prevent redness in the future is to stay on top of your sugaring! Sugar every few weeks (as necessary). Because the hair grows back thinner and finer, there will be less irritation and redness after each sugaring session.

Those little bumps are typically nothing to worry about, however the following may be reasons why you got those bumps and how to prevent it in the future!

The red bumps are the (now empty) hair follicles that just had the hair removed. 

The bumps typically occur if the hair was too long when it was sugared out. Optimal hair length is between 1/4-1/2" (about the length of a grain of rice). If it is longer than this, the sugar will unnecessarily pull the skin more, leading to those little raised bumps. 

Ways to avoid the little bumps when sugaring:

1.  Trim the hair

2.  Make sure you're flicking parallel to the skin, not pulling up.

Bruising can be caused by a few different things:

-Flicking up, not parallel to the skin

- The hair is too long

- Superficial bones (close to the skin)

How to prevent Bruising:

The best way to prevent bruising is to have the correct technique of flicking down before sugaring a super hairy area. For example: we suggest practicing on the inside of the wrist until you have the flicking technique down! This might take a few tries. Practicing here until you get it down will ensure that when you're sugaring an area with a superficial bone, or that has hair a little bit longer than optimal, you still won't bruise. 

Trim the hair before starting if necessary. Keep in mind that areas like the shin and eyebrow have superficial bones... or bones that are close to the skin. Sugaring with poor technique in these areas will increase the likelihood of bruising. 

Hair grows in different cycles, so the hair you're sugaring will likely not all be the same length and some will be too short to be picked up.

If you do have some stubborn hairs that don't seem to come up try the 'wrap around' method, explained perfectly by a customer:

"If you get stubborn hairs, spread a “c” shaped and a backwards “c” shape with the corner of the flicker, then press flat and flick Fast!"

It's up to you. The sugar will dissolve in warm water so the only thing that could possibly clog the drain is the hair that's left after the sugar dissolves.

When in doubt, grab the large glob of sugar and hair off the flicker and throw that in the garbage, and rinse the remaining sugar off the flicker in the sink. This method is shown in the Express How-To video.