| My review of this hair-plucker is from a different perspective than most: I'm a man. I have extremely hairy legs, but the rest of me is relatively hair free. I've never been really happy with the situation, but I never really felt like shaving the hair off... just seemed like too much of a hassle, plus, shaving legs is something my girlfriend does! But she doesn't like the hair on me either. So, I had a reason to finally get rid of it. I'm not a wuss when it comes to pain. I hiked down a mountain with a dislocated shoulder one time. I have a lot of scars. So, I didn't think removing the hair hurt very much. It's just an annoying 'plucking' feeling. It does remove the hair. But it leaves stubble, which I find annoying. I can feel the stubble with my hand, but the thing won't pull those hairs out, no matter how much I move it over the area. I expected it to get all the hair. So, I'm not entirely happy. It's possible that I'm just not using it in the correct way, even though I read the direction booklet. Buy this thing only if you have a high pain threshold. |
| I purchased this product after reading the Amazon reviews about it. I had never used an epilator, and had never waxed anything on my body but my eyebrows (and that was only one time). Still, I have a relatively high pain threshold and my leg hair is fairly fine, so I didn't think the pain would be a problem for me. I was pretty much right. I'm a little more sensitive in the knee area than the rest of my legs, and I don't really bother with my thighs since my leg hair there is blonde. I have no problem with pain around my bikini line, but it does hurt quite a lot to do my underarms -- and it pinches my skin there, too, which is not only quite uncomfortable, but has drawn small amounts of blood. It's fine for my legs, though -- the first time I used the product, I didn't use the "beginner's head" that comes with it. I just turned the thing on high and started epilating. It hurt, but it wasn't unbearable (and it has gotten better). I have had a few ingrown hairs, but I think I can get rid of that problem just by purchasing a loofah and doing some exfoliating in the shower every now and then, so I'm not worried about that. No, the reason I gave this product 2 stars is that at least for me, the darn thing doesn't actually pluck the hair out by the root most of the time. Oh, it gets much of the hair out by the root (enough for me to feel twinges of minor pain), but it also breaks a lot of hairs off right at the skin. It leaves those hairs too short to pluck with either the epilator or manually with tweezers, and there are too many of them to pluck manually anyway. The result: my legs constantly feel as though I shaved yesterday -- they look smooth (since my hair is light), but they feel stubbly. If I shaved with a razor, I would at least have one day of smooth legs. This way, it's just a constant stubble feeling, and since much of the hair wasn't removed at the root, I certainly can't go for weeks between use of the product as some reviewers can. ...I prefer this to shaving since my skin is softer now, and since my fiance doesn't really care if my legs are silky-smooth. But really, I think I could get much better results if I waxed or used a chemical product like Nair. |
