Long Live The MetroSexual....

As you all know it's bathing suit season but in the world of aesthetics it's known as waxing season. Yes during this time of year I spend most of my days hunched over pulling crotch hair out of Nashville's women, but recently Metrosexual season started, oh happy day!! See you think I'm being sarcastic...but it's a nice change to leave the crotch area and work on a back, and just like crotches all backs are not created equal. I've had the guys with just a few patches on their shoulders and I've had the guys with a built in afghan covering their back(those are the best). They always seem slightly embarrassed when they enter the feminine domain of our spa and whisper that they have an appointment. I had a first timer last week and he gave me my first Kelly Clarkson moment. Unfortunately the guy had the afghan going on and it took some time to get it all off and it was hard to tell where his back hair stopped and his chest hair started. I put some wax down along his side thinking it was coming off his back and low and behold it had wrapped around from his chest...yeah it was a long appointment. He took it like a champ after the initial yell and actually re booked when I explained to him that it would go easier on him if he kept it up instead of waiting until it was three inches long to have it waxed. I did ask the guy what made him come in to have this done. I mean he was an older guy so what possessed him to wax after not doing so for all these years? He gets this faraway look in his eyes and smiles slightly and tells me his wife recently had her first Brazilian and he liked it, so he felt the least he could do was return the favor. So maybe he isn't a Metrosexual, but he's in training to become one. My metrosexuals come in tanned, toned, perfect brows and smelling of Aqcua di Gio lie down on the bed like the seasoned pros they are and tell me they prefer hard wax over strip wax and hand me their own bottle of tend skin to use afterwards...brings a tear to this Estheticians eye. We proceed to spend the next 30 minutes or so talking about reality TV, the best exfoliaters on the market and if laser hair removal is worth the pain and money. I love these guys so I say long live the Metrosexual Man. Estheticians Unite!!