Sugar Wax FAIL

Well, as all things recently seem to originate from thoughts on prepping myself for surgery I started thinking again.  I know for a fact I won't be allowed to shower for at least a few days, maybe even a week or more after a shower.  I've given in to the fact that my hair will look awful for a while, super thick naturally curly hair is just not something I can brush and look "ok" or even use dry shampoo on...and my hair is short enough that although I can pull it back its a very stubby tail that would cause headaches being laid upon in my chair *sigh*.  But as a typical mommy of three my showers this week were a bit limited, I haven't shaved my legs all week and I went three days without shaving pits and bikini area.  I realized that this will probably bother me more than nasty hair... Stubbly pits and bikini area...ewww. It makes me itchy and scratchy just thinking about it!  I've never waxed but it figured, hey, why not?  I know it's painful for a bit, but the payoff is being hairless for weeks!  I looked into a local waxing center and the prices were along the lines of $30 per leg, bikini area free, and another $30 for the pits... Adding up to almost $100, yikes!  So of course I started researching natural hair removal and came across sugar waxing.  It sounded great, just heat sugar, water, and lemon juice to make a nice "wax" and viola!  Cheap hairless me!  So I tried making it, I had all the ingredients... And even after cooling it was just too thin, all it did was make things sticky, no hair removal.  So I cooked it longer.  This time it was thicker but again it wouldn't take off any hair!  So I called my husband in to test it on him, maybe my short leg stubble was just too short.  So I picked a spot on his back (no he's not all that hairy, but he does have a few small patches on his back perfect for testing).  The sugar pulled at his hair, pulled out two or three hairs and generally was a thick sticky mess.  Upon more research I discovered that sugar wax making was a very temperamental thing and exceedingly difficult without a candy thermometer to get the temperature just right.  Well, shoot!  I guess me and my candy thermometerless hairy self was not going to get waxed that way!  So I packed the kids into the car and headed to the Walgreens down the street, determined I could still wax myself and save money.  I found several types of home wax kits but the one that caught my eye was the Nads "natural" wax, which was essentially a sugar wax!  Great! And at $14 still way cheaper than a salon!  So I brought it home and started reading the directions where I discovered part of my problem... The hair it took my legs a WEEK to grow was too short to wax.  The hair needs to be 1/8-1/5 inch long to work and my hair was only 1/16... Darn.  Well, at least I still had hubby's back to test it with!  I tried it out on a new patch and... It worked! Really well too, I could re-use the wax several times!  He now has a nice smooth patch on his back, lol.  I guess I'll wait another week before trying my legs (or anywhere else)... But if its to long enough by then I'm shaving!  After all, I'll be going on vacation for a week at that point and I refuse to go to the pool all hairy.  Fingers crossed I grow my hair long enough before then to wax.