By Ellie Krupnick, Huffington Post
Getting your legs waxed is already a fairly unpleasant endeavor. But a London salon has reportedly made it that much more unbearable by imposing a so-called “fat tax” on its curvier customers.
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The Sun reports that MM Bubbles , a salon in South Kensington that offers manicures, pedicures, waxing and body wraps, is charging customers size 12 and larger a fee of £5 (around $8) for a 45-minute leg wax. Women even larger (a size 18 and up) could be charged £10 more.
A British size 12 (equivalent to an American size 8) is actually smaller than the average UK woman’s size, the Sun notes, which is actually a size 16 (an American size 12). So the Sun sent a size 22-24 woman to MM Bubbles for a waxing treatment. When being charged for her visit, she was reportedly told by the salon owner, “I know maybe for you it is not very nice but I use more stuff.”
As insulting as the concept of a “fat tax” sounds, it’s not a foreign concept. Legislation proposed in Nevada this year would impose a 5-cent tax on fast food containing over 500 calories; this month, Mexico’s national Congress passed a one-peso-per-liter tax on soda and an 8 percent tax on junk food.
Read the full article by Ellie Krupnick, Huffington Post.
