Sugar and spice and all things nice!

Well my darlings this is my fist of several enlightening posts on how to stay buffed, hair free and fabulous while not damaging the portfeuille!

And guess what, when typing sugaring into a google image search, I found a charmant picture of this homme swimming along in his no doubt, hairless state. (Probably a back, sack and crack aficionado, sugars no doubt!)

So what does a lady need to be smooth and sexy: SUGAR!

Yes mes enfants sugar is all you need. Not only does my recipe remove all hair, but it also removes excess dead skin cells or scales as I prefer to call them, allowing you to apply body lotion or indeed bronzing products with ease and sexy results.

Sugaring: what do you need:

This recipe gives enough to do roughly both legs depending on size.

Sugar: Any brand will do. I actually used Aldi's ordinary granulated sugar. (Mon Dieu I am dedicated to cutting costs eh!)

Water: I chose Chateau de Tap, I find this gives the best results.

Lemon: Again any type of lemon, organic, waxed or even cheapest of the cheap. Your only going to need a little any way.

Sugaring: preparez vous

Prepare your implements first.

1.Old sauce pan

2.Plastic sheet/baking paper

3.Wooden sticks if possible

Use an old sauce pan, a heavy duty plastic sheet for cooking on (I use JML variety that allows you to put the sheet directly on an AGA, I'm sooo county!). If you don't have one of these sheets, I believe they are called Magic Sheet, you can use baking paper.

Basically you want to be able to spread out your mixture, peel it off and apply to your body. I don't recommend putting the mixture on a plate or similar crockery however, as it will dry too quickly and we wan to keep it just above room temperature.

Sugaring: Method

Add one and a half cups of sugar, one cup of water and a squeeze of lemon to an old saucepan.

Bring all the ingredients to a rolling boil. What you want here is the mixture to turn to caramel. You have got to keep a really close eye on your pan as the colour of the mixture changes really quickly from clear to golden, then brown.

As soon as your mixture turns brown, move it to a low heat and prepare your sheet/paper.

Pour the mixture onto the sheet/paper. You are going to use your spatula/wooden stick or hands to gather up the mixture from this.

When mixture is cool enough to handle, but not too cool, (You don't want it to harden as it won't work.) gather up in your fingers (I'm using fingers here for this example but you can use your spatula/wooden stick) and roll into a malleable ball. Begin to stretch the mixture.

YES IT'S CARAMEL and YES, YOU CAN EAT IT!!!

But we are conducting hair removal here people so back to work!!

Apply the mixture to the chosen part of the body. (It works equally well every where but I suggest you start with the legs.) Smear the mixture along the leg until all hairs are covered.

Allow it to dry.

When the mixture is hard, grasp the end of it (this will be near your foot.), tauten your leg and get ready.

123 pull..... and ..... hairless legs.... ohhh so sexy, so chic, soooo sugary ;)

Continue the process and rinse legs with water to remove any access mixture.

As with any epilation avoid perfumes, lotions, etc on the area for 24 hours.

Et voila