This is one area where the Egyptian ones have got it right - they have HUGE Bobesches (drip cups) on them. My adapted "real" candelabrum only had small Bobesches on it - totally ineffective - so I added large, cut crystal ones I found on eBay.
With good sized Bobesches and decent dance isolations, you will get little to no wax on you. Without, you'll look like you have a major wax fetish - and that was one of the more polite "observations" made after I did two back to back performances sans Bobesches!
-Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
http://www.doubleveil.net
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