As long as you have an experienced waxer, it really only hurts like hell during the initial RIIIIP and they're grabbing the hair only-- if the waxer is not experienced - -they don't pull the skin taut enough, of they haven't applied the wax correctly, and they're taking off a layer of skin with the wax (Pain doesn't begin to describe that)
Since it's all done at once, it's not that bad, it's the cleanup with the tweezers that m akes your eyes water... or at least mine