Profile: Marissa Pendergast, bikini waxer
June 1, 2009 at 6:18 pm by Candace Wheeler in Profile
Have a hankering for a heart-shaped bikini line? Marissa Pendergast, a licensed esthetician at Sweet Samba in Midtown, can hook you up. And yes, she does Brazilians.
At your salon Sweet Samba you have a motto: “A salon for your hair down there.” Can you elaborate on that?
We do traditional bikini waxes, and we specialize in Brazilian waxes. We serve both male and female clients, but in addition to our more traditional services we also can create shapes and designs. We also dye hair and use creams to make the hair texture softer.
What kind of designs do customers ask for?
People ask for initials, hearts, any type of design. Everything is done free hand. I’m pretty much a pubic hair artist. We also have to do a lot of trimming for first timers.
I tried to get my mother in here for Valentine’s day once, but she wouldn’t go for it.
What is your favorite on-the-job moment?
I had a woman who named her vagina and was talking to it the whole time she was getting her wax. She was doing it to entertain me, because sometimes clients feel awkward those first few moments. This particular client kept talking to her vagina and apologizing if something hurt. She said she was going to take it home and be nice to it. I thought it was hilarious.
What’s the most common wax clients ask for?
Definitely the Brazilian or for guys the Manzillian or the Boyzillian
Since you specialize in Brazilian waxes, what styles are most popular?
Well, there are three: bare-to-bare, which is taking everything off including the hair on the backside; barely-there, which is sort of like a bathing suit except you don’t wax the lip area; and the landing strip, which waxes everything except a tall short or skinny area.
What’s it like sharing such an intimate experience with the people you wax?
You know usually by the end of it, me and the client are best friends. It’s easy to see why, because I’m seeing parts of them they don’t even show their best friends.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:28 am
“I had a woman who named her vagina and was talking to it the whole time she was getting her wax. She was doing it to entertain me, because sometimes clients feel awkward those first few moments. This particular client kept talking to her vagina and apologizing if something hurt. She said she was going to take it home and be nice to it.”
Classic Peg.