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In the commercial, the women would put Nair on their legs, it looks like shaving cream, and poof! the end result was long, tan, beautiful legs, with no hair, of course. It taught me that a woman could wear short-shorts after using the Nair and the men would love her. I swear, as a kid, I thought that when I got older, I would buy some of that Nair and I would put it on my legs and I would be Ms. Thing. Uh-huh. Snap snap.
My friends and I would sing the little song from the commercial, probably more than was a healthy amount. If you don’t know the song or need a refresher, here it is (Who wears short-shorts? We wear short-shorts. If you dare go bare it’s Nair with alovera), or something very close to that. The commercial had a bunch of women sitting at what looked like an ice cream counter in super short-shorts with very long, tan legs, and it was all due to the Nair, or so I thought. I just knew I would be one of those girls one day.
Fast forward about so many years and well, things just didn’t turn out quite like I figured. First off, I am only 5′2″ and I think those models’ legs alone were 5′2, so right there I was out of the running to be a Nair leg model girl. I also hate the heat and am not a big fan of tanning, so again, there goes the tan part being that I am either white or pinkish or a dark red from a sunburn. As for beautiful legs, mine aren’t too bad, but nothing like the ones those women had. Plus, at my age, it might be a felony if I were to wear the short-shorts out in public and I really don’t want to be locked up.
It is funny how, as a kid, I really thought that that Nair would give me long, tan, beautiful legs. As an adult, I know better. Sometimes it would be nice to not figure things out and still have those silly dreams. Speaking of dreams, please do not even get me started on the Rockettes. I am speaking of the world famous New York Rockettes, the ones in the showgirl type outfits that perform the famous kick line. I thought they were perfect and really wanted to be one, maybe as a side job to being a Nair leg model. My dreams were crushed when I found out the Rockettes have a minimum height requirement of 5′6″. I can’t even tell you how much I wanted to be one of those ladies.
I have since gotten over my dream of being the Nair leg model/Rockette and maybe I should work on world peace or ending hunger, as those would be much more realistic dreams for me. Boy, those tall girls have all the luck; sometimes life just isn’t fair.
(c)2007 Cindy Breninger All Rights Reserved.
About the Author – Cindy Breninger
I like to write about my kids, things I feel strongly about, or things that I find interesting, and I hope you do too. My stories are pretty random with very little rhyme or reason as to subject matter. I have a ton of stories just waiting to get out.
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I am also 5′2″. I had not thought about that song in that commercial in years. I never really thought it would give me long legs but I did think it would make my legs nice and smooth and having used it that has never happened.
I am 5′5″ in the morning. I am 5′4″ in the evening, allowing for gravitational pull and bearing the weight of the world….LOL.
I am bummed because I can’t use Nair. It burns my skin so much that I have to remove it before it removed the hair!
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Yes, and the smell of Nair is not all that pleasent either. Have you tried their new sensitive skin formula?
I hated Nair. I used it once and the smell and the burn was both unbearable. UGh.
I can hear the jingle in my head, and I can recall my prepubescent excitement too.
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Tater03, I’m also 5′2″, but I think I stayed away from Nair because it just had the most *god-awful* smell that sticks to your skin for days!
SageMother, ow, we should never talk about the *ugly* gravitational pull that makes us shorter by the end of the day……
Sort of the same concept with only release your morning weight instead of your afternoon weight
Tater03, is it any good? My guess that products just get better and better in time.
3Plus3, I’ve never had the burning sensation. But I do definitely remember the itchiness.
I think somewhere on the packaging it says something about….. test it on a small skin patch before using because you might be allergic to it.
Jon, of course, you would relate the two together.
I tried Nair once..Apparently I didn’t get it all off the back of one of my legs, went to bed and the next morning I woke up with a huge burn!
Oh no, I hope this didn’t happen to you in the middle of summer time because burns like that just gets worse in the sun.
Actually, I’m curious what everybody uses for getting rid of unwanted hair. What do you do?
I’ve used Nair (although I’d love to find a more natural/milder product!) The only burning for me has been when the bottle of the stuff gets too old, I leave it on too long, or I use it again too soon after the last application.
Katharina, LOL! I was just checking my cabinet full of beauty stuff that I never really got to use.
I found a couple of really *really old* Nair bottles. Can you just imagine the rash that I’ll get if I use them now?
I haven’t tried the sensitive one yet. I had just seen it in the store. Tip though don’t leave it in the shower. My husband almost grabbed it thinking it was conditioner once. Could you imagine if he had not caught that one? He would have killed me.
Ouch! If you try to use *those*, Imaginary Diva, be sure to have some aloe vera or burn ointment handy! That would be painful!
I have always found it hard to use Nair because I don’t have the patience to leave it on as long as they say to. That and the smell is awful.
Wow, I just had a flash back to that commercial! I remember singing it with my friends too.
I never cared for Nair either, it did not seem to work for me. And the smell…..yuck.
Tater03, you do have the most interesting stories. LOL! I wonder if that’s what happened to my hubby…..
One day I came home and he was bald!
Katharina, I think one of these days I’ll take a picture of all the junk that I have accumulated in my drawers that probably expired, oh, at least five years ago…..
I am always going through my shelves and drawers and I still find things that have expired long ago! I often wonder where it all came from. LOL
I’ve been throwing things out soon after they expire… but that’s only since we moved a few years ago. Before that I found a lot of outdated things, too.
Tater03, you are probably like me too….
When I finally do leave it on, I forget I left it on and I end up paying for it afterwards.
I seem to also have the same problem with facial masks
EviesEarth, the company really did a terrific job branding their product line, that even today, we still remember the original jingle.
EviesEarth, and I really hate it when I am in a rush to get my makeup done I end up picking an expired lipstick.
Yuk
Katharina, I actually have a girlfriend that sticks little labels on her products to tell her when she bought it.
It works very well for her, but I just find it too tedious.
I had this bad habit of forgetting to use the first bottle and buying another one, one day I really found 2-3 unused, half empty bottle and got good shout from my husband….
now I really am careful…never buy until the first one is all gone…
I don’t need to date my beauty products, I have teenage girls, everything disappears long before the expiry date!
they call that stuff ‘Veet’ over here now, goodness only knows why… Nair was a contraction of ‘no hair’ the mind boggles at what ‘Veet’ means…
One of many pointless name changes on recent years, I expect it has something to do with the product having to have the same name in a number of countries. Veet is a stupid name, it makes me think of sweaty feet.
LOL Kernow, i was struggling to think of an adequate description.. that one is perfect! It does sound like that, you’re right!
Name changes always make me mad because the new name always seems totally meaningless. The most annoying one was changing the name of Marathon to Snickers – what on earth does that mean?
With Snickers, i think it was to change the name to the ssame as the american bar..
One that winds me up was when an ordinary household cleaner called Jif (as in cleans in a jiffy) had its name changed to ‘CIF’ why???
Whats all that about?
I know what you mean about Cif, it sounds contageous. Snickers annoys me because it doesnt mean anything, Marathon makes more sense as it suggests long lasting. Does Snickers have a meaning in American English?
lol deadly! I have no idea if snickers means anything.. as far as i know the word ’snicker’ just means a nasty little laugh… I’m sure that wasn’t what they had in mind!
I am 5′9″,and back in the day I was considered quite tall. I wished I was one of those 5′2″ lucky girls that had their pick of guys that were lots taller than them, even if the boys were shrimps to me. Oh well, the grass is always greener.
i’m 5ft exactly… never had any trouble finding boys
they usually found me he he heh…
I’m 5′6″ and that’s pretty good for me… wouldn’t mind being a couple of inches taller but not too much.
As for the Veet, I thought that’s what Neet turned into, and not Nair? Nair is still called Nair as far as I know, but Neet seems to have disappeared over the last few years.
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