Instead, we attempted to live our best beauty-therapy lives at home: waxing, bleaching, masking (the mud pack variety, rather than the global pandemic one), French manicuring.

But recently, I was introduced to European Wax Center's latest exclusive treatment, Cirefusion Wax Thérapie 135°™, and it changed everything I thought I knew.

What do you do if the wax feels too hot? ‘You can say to your therapist and they will adjust it for you but you can’t really have the temperature turned down completely,’ Chiara explains.