Oh my god.. hilarious ! If you ever work up the guts to try again, sugaring works quite well, it's the same concept but the stuff will dissolve away with water !
I'm a Classics major.. and women in ancient Greece and Rome seemed to have depilated as well. They did it by.. singeing it off with fire, or coating hair in tar and ripping it off. Ugh, it just sounds like worlds of pain.