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A woman's gotta groom. Jo & Aparna explore why people groom, what it entails and shows us a side to waxing you may not have ever seen before.

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Created by: Julie Miller, Jo Firestone, & Aparna Nancherla
Starring: Jo Firestone & Aparna Nancherla
Director: Anu Valia
Written by: Aparna Nancherla, Jo Firestone, Julie Miller, Anu Valia
Producer: Nell Riley
DP: Charlotte Hornsby & Jesse Ruuttila
Editor: Robert Malone
Graphics: Vero Romano, Caitlin Thornton, Aaron Haalevy
Sound: Catherine Hood
HMU: Hana El-Assad
Styling: Christina DeSmet & Serena da Conceicao
Production Assistants: Andrea Simons, Thomas Blount
Production Interns: Samantha Nicles, Lyric McHenry, Charlotte Johnson

Special thanks to Bartali Hair Salon and Tatyana Gufanov
Transcript
00:00As you can tell by our shirts, and our shoes, we're f***ing starlets now.
00:15Welcome to Womanhood.
00:17Notice anything different about us?
00:20Well, there's a lot of stuff different about us because they forced us to go see image consultants.
00:24And they said, switch your boobs, switch your nose, switch your chin, switch your eyes, and get rid of that
00:31body hair.
00:32Mostly the body hair.
00:35Well, we better tell them our origin story.
00:38You really think they're ready for it?
00:41Frankly, I don't give a damn.
00:46Once upon a time, there were two girls who never looked in a mirror before.
00:54They didn't know what they looked like.
00:56One day, they decided it was time.
00:58Oh, I forgot their names.
01:01Their names were Joe and Aparna.
01:03So they decided to go on down to the mirror store and take a big, long gander.
01:09And they really saw something.
01:12They didn't see anything because every single inch of them was covered in hair.
01:19Hair.
01:20Hair.
01:20So we went to wax her, and she ripped our skin off.
01:26But we learned a little something about what's underneath.
01:32Blood.
01:36Blood.
01:36Blood.
01:37Blood.
01:38Blood.
01:39We're here with our new friend, Tatiana, the woman behind the wax.
01:45She's what you'd call a modern sculptor of human skin faces.
01:50A brow whisperer.
01:51A brow whisperer.
01:52A brow whisperer.
01:52A brow whisperer.
01:53I like to call her the house of wax.
01:55House of wax.
01:56Okay.
01:57I'll take that.
01:58And what we're doing today?
02:00I think I'm gonna do my eyebrows and upper lip.
02:05Upper lip.
02:06Okay.
02:06I never double dip, so it's very nice and clean.
02:10Oh boy.
02:10Here it comes.
02:11No.
02:12Okay.
02:12I tell you when I fall, okay?
02:15You're telling me.
02:15Okay.
02:16A little surprise.
02:17Okay.
02:17Another sign you want to do it?
02:19It's better for everyone if you do both.
02:21Good answer.
02:23Ah!
02:23Oh boy.
02:24Feels like when you scrape your face on the pavement.
02:27It's antiseptic water.
02:30I got a mustache.
02:32Okay.
02:32So we're gonna start from middle.
02:33Just relax.
02:35Oh boy.
02:38Close your eyes.
02:40Oh boy.
02:42I think this one's the closest to the eye.
02:44It's very far for your eye.
02:46Oh.
02:47And there went my eye.
02:48It felt like it went right out.
02:50I knew a guy that once got his eyeball popped out.
02:53Honey, you look like you lost five palettes on my face.
02:56Uh-huh.
02:56Take a look.
02:57I'm going to take a look.
02:57I'm beautiful.
02:58You see?
02:58Do you think this will change your life?
03:01Yeah.
03:02We just do so much better.
03:04What happened?
03:05What's wrong?
03:06Where did I go wrong?
03:08But what about this thing?
03:09This thing will take care of it.
03:11That's not a problem.
03:12Oh.
03:12I just want to change a little bit of the shape of your eyebrows.
03:14Where do they grow?
03:15Where are they supposed to be growing?
03:16I'm going to show you with a pencil.
03:18Yep.
03:18How you're going to look.
03:19You're going to draw it in?
03:21Yeah.
03:21You ready?
03:22Pencil is pencil.
03:23Pencil is pencil.
03:24We always can take it off.
03:26That's what a partner always says.
03:27Pencil is pencil.
03:28Yeah.
03:29Just relax.
03:30Relax.
03:31I think it looks great.
03:32Let me do your mustache first.
03:34Okay.
03:34I like your bum boobies.
03:35Oh, thank you.
03:36They're not mine.
03:37They were picked out by a professional.
03:39Just relax.
03:40Don't wait for pain.
03:42I always tell when I pull.
03:44Why are you laughing?
03:45I don't know.
03:46Maybe you should cry.
03:49I'm not trying to scare you.
03:51No, you never would.
03:52You're Tatiana, goddess of the wax.
03:54How much hair would I have to get removed to become Miss America?
03:58I'll fix your eyebrows.
03:59You'd be my Miss America.
04:01You'd also have to change your last name to America.
04:04Really?
04:05Yes.
04:06Being a woman is truly the worst thing.
04:09Honestly, we're all just trying to get people to fall in love with us.
04:12You know what I mean?
04:12And anything we can do, the less active the better, you know?
04:19I feel great.
04:21That was fun.
04:23I felt like I was in good hands.
04:25Me too.
04:26I'd go back to her anytime.
04:28Tatiana was the right choice.
04:31Whoa!
04:32What?
04:33You got a little something?
04:34In your ice cream zone.
04:36Well, get it off my ice cream zone.
04:39What?
04:39That's hair.
04:40Really?
04:41Yeah.
04:41Really?
04:42Yeah.
04:43I knew it would grow back, but not this fast.
04:46Jo was cursed by a gremlin that she should never go without facial hair for more than an hour.
04:53Just because I broke up with him.
04:55He was gonna break up with me.
04:57And she did it in person.
04:59I guess we gotta go back to Tatiana's House of Wax.
05:031-800-585-WAX.
05:06With two X's.
05:08That's also, you could also just spell it W-A-9-9.
05:14If you like this video and you're a shut-in, hit subscribe.
05:19Where?
05:21Right here.
05:22Where?
05:23Right here.
05:24What do you mean?
05:25Right here.
05:25Where?
05:26Right here.
05:27What do you mean?
05:27Here.
05:28Ouch!
05:29Ouch!
05:29Ouch!
05:32That is my hole!
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