Festa Junina or Festa de São João
Translating literally, June Festivities or Saint John's Festivals is a celebration on the months of June and July in Brazil. It originated from European midsummer celebrations and includes some similar traditions like a large bonfire (that seems to make a lot more sense in the southern hemisphere because it happens during winter months) and also a dance derived from palatial European court balls, modified and redefined with new meaning, related to popular and rural themes and paired with brazillian "forró" or country music.
Dressing up and dances
Traditionally everyone wears plaid shirts/dresses, straw hats, painted on gap tooths, very blatant blush on cheeks and lots of painted freckles, girls wear their hairs in pigtails and boys paint on moustaches and beards. This is the stereotypical exaggerated rural look, and is more common for kids to dress this way, while in parties with mostly adults it's more common to just wear plaid shirts, a straw hat and do some make-up.
The dances are choreographed but very standard between places, with someone announcing vocal cues for specific dance steps, switching partners, doing coordinated group moves and sometimes ending in a mock wedding.
Traditional food
Now, the best part of it all, my favorite thing from this time of the year, THE FOOD!
The traditional foods are super delicious and mostly made out of corn, like corn cakes, cural, pamonha, but there's also peanuts, specially sweetened peanuts, popcorn, sweet or salted, caramelized apples, quentão, which is a warm spiced drink, that may or may not be alcoholic and is one of my favorite things.
I'll try to update the thread with some recipes later or maybe just talk more about food, but I can't promise I actually will.
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Thought it was 6 weeks, kinda unfortunate even 3 sessions would take 3+ months. But at least it's only that and I should be good to go by spring.
I had very noticeable results after one session. My facial hair was like 40% of the pre-laser amount. Each session after brought it down another 5-10% and made it so that the regrowth took longer and longer. After nine sessions I shave about once every two weeks and there's only a few dark hairs left. I just need finish it off with electrolysis at this point.
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When i started out, we did sessions every 4 weeks. At that point, there is so much hair that it's worth it even after just 4 weeks. And after 3 sessions, i was already at the point where i did not need orange concealer anymore, shaving and light foundation was enough by then.
The 6 week+ interval is to time the sessions along your hairs' growth cycle. For me, we could catch the maximum amount of actively growing hair with intervals of 7-8 weeks, but it can be a bit more or a bit less than that. You'll probably figure that out after a while, you can actually see how the lasered hairs are dying off and falling out, how it's very smooth after that rough initial phase and how more and more untreated hairs are growing in after you've passed that sweet spot.