Silk-épil 9-720

(Just for reference, I am a 28 year old woman with fair skin and blonde/light brown body hair) I'd be doing everybody a disservice if I didn't express how absolutely LIFE CHANGING this device is. I bought this 2 weeks ago and have barely seen any hair growth since. I had used an epilator years ago and was terrified at the thought of using one again. It feels exactly how you'd think each hair being tweezed out of your skin all at once would feel. I could say my pain tolerance is higher than average. The initial reaction you have to it WILL go away and it will get more comfortable as you use it. For the first 4-ish days, I used it everyday, that's how addictive it is. Also, each hair follicle grows differently, so I tried to get as many missed hairs as I could. I used it on stubble that was about 1/8 inch long. Yes, it hurts, but after the first round you do, its practically painless. It feels good sometimes which was definitely the biggest plot twist for me. The more you do it, the easier it gets. I promise. I never did well with bikini/brazilian waxes. That is pain like none other. Like I said, I have a pretty high pain tolerance. If you're planning on using it for your bikini area, brazilian, or even armpits (areas with a course-er hair), listen up. TAKE. A FEW HITS. BEFORE THE FIRST TIME YOU TRY IT. I literally had to get high to get myself into a mindset where I won't think too much about it. Slowly but surely, I did the full brazilian and it was not as bad as you may think. *If you're doing anything down there, use it with the grain first, then gradually move diagonally until its going against the grain. This leaves the least amount of hair to be removed against the grain, which causes the most pain* A big tip I can give everyone is to use it in every way your hair could possibly grow. I personally go against the grain, with the grain, side to side, and even diagonal on any area I use it on. Pros: No shaving = no bumps and no burning. Haven't noticed any ingrowns Rechargeable and holds a charge for a long time Small, which is perfect if you don't have much space like I do Easy to clean- comes with a small brush to clean the head out Can be used wet OR dry (I use it dry which means I don't need to be in the shower for a long time) Cons: Painful for a lot of people Skin is left a little red for a few hours after That I haven't used this before To summarize, it is worth the price. I recc. to anyone who have had bad waxing or shaving experiences. I also recc. to the other people who have fallen victim to IPL-machines. You'll see more effective results after just a few uses of this epilator than you will with any at-home "permanent" hair removal method. I wish I bought this sooner. Do not be scared to try it! Like I said, I very rarely ever take time to write a real review of an impulse purchase. I promise if you're on the fence, just try it out.

I have only used it once and so far it has worked as expected. I have a high pain tolerance and although there is pain in using this device it was not that bad. I could literally feel each hair being pulled out but again the pain was very tolerable. I am hopeful as more uses are done that it will be less painful. All pain aside, everywhere I used this device hair was removed. My skin is silky smooth and I am one of the lucky ones that didn’t get red bumps. I did soak in a warm bath for 5 to 10 minutes and exfoliated while in there. This is recommended when using an epilator and I believe it helped me achieve the results I got, both minimal pain and smoothness. Update: Used a second time one week after first use. Pain was much less than last time, especially on legs and underarms. Bikini area is still a little bit painful but I’m hopeful it will get better with each use. Everywhere I used is smooth and no hair has showed its head 24 hours after so I’m still happy with results. I assume hair growth will slow down significantly as each time I use it. Update: 6 months later and this device is still working as intended. Hair growth has slowed down dramatically and in some places has ceased to grow at all. My legs, underarms and bikini area are all smooth and my skin is silky smooth. Putting lotion on is much easier without any hair removal n the way. It does take some time for hair growth to slow down but I am super happy with the way this product works and the results it has given me. The only stubborn place I have with hair regrowth is the knees just above the shins. This is a hard area to take care of and does not affect my thoughts on this product.

So, I’m happy and disappointed in this product. I’ll start with disappointment, because the happy comes with a significant cost. TL;DR: unhappy with leg hair removal, but happy with other locations, however extremely painful only the 1st time using it. I got this primarily to search for a longer term hair removal for my legs. I love the feeling after a fresh shave, but I get stubble back after only a few hours. If I shave my legs in the morning, I get stubble back by dinner time. I’m going on a big 3 week trip in a few months and I just don’t want to have to deal with shaving or stubble every day. So I turned to other alternatives for leg hair removal. I tried waxing, and honestly I think that would have been fine except I think I had a bad waxer who used a cheap wax. She didn’t get everything and left wax residue and it just wasn’t a great experience. After more research, I think if I had gone to a better waxer, I probably would’ve stuck with waxing. Except it is costly. My friend told me about epilating so I decided to try that. For my legs, it’s… okay. It’s not that painful in my experience but I have softer leg hair I guess and a higher pain tolerance. Also I already had much of the hair removed from waxing previously so that probably helped some. But the biggest problem is… it left a LOT of stubble. I couldn’t tell if it was just missing some hairs or if it was breaking the longer pieces off. I consulted some online forums and someone recommended that I pick 1 day of the week and stay consistent with that weekly epilating. They said this will help remove more hairs as the hairs get on the same growth cycle. This actually has helped significantly with picking up more hair. After several weeks of consistency, there is significantly less stubble left over. However, I still have 2 issues: the first being still no completely smooth legs, and the second being the length of time for hairlessness does not seem long at all. Each week of epilating, I have significant hair regrowth. My goal is super smooth, soft, silky skin for an extended period of time. Preferably my entire 3 week trip. I was hoping starting epilating early would have honestly after several months, but so far it is not looking good. I’m tempted trying to wax again, or possibly waxing right before my trip and bringing my epilator just in case I have hair regrowth, and if none of that works, then just dealing with shaving during my trip. Ok. Now for the happy. After my legs experiment offered initial disappointment, I question if this epilator thing actually even worked for removing hairs at all. So I tested it on a different part of my body: my underarms. I CAN CONFIRM THE EPILATOR WORKS AT REMOVING HAIRS AND I CAN ALSO CONFIRM THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL THINGS IVE EVER EXPERIENCED. I wanted to quit 1/2 way done just one underarm. But like, you can’t quit then, you have to push through. Ultimately I am glad I did but boy was it tears-in-your-eyes painful. Every single follicle was red and full of blood. It wasn’t like dripping blood but definitely had some red on a tissue when I patted it. This only happened the first time, however. After I pushed through the pain, my underarms were completely hairless. I treated the tender area for the next few days. The hairs didn’t grow back for a while. It was SO nice not worrying about underarm stubble or discoloration from shaving or darker hair regrowth. Epilating my underarms after the first time is SIGNIFICANTLY easier and less painful. It’s still somewhat painful, like you can definitely feel it pinching, but it’s so much easier and better and faster. The hair grows back softer and lighter so even with hair regrowth it’s not so bad. I still epilate only once a week and I really don’t worry about the hair regrowth in between. So I’m very happy with the results for my underarms. I’m not sure I could say I recommend it for underarms though because that initial session… it’s BAD. It’s so bad. I do not want to be dismissive about the pain. But I do think if you can push through it, it could be worth it. It is to me.

Works exactly as intended, very efficient. Gets every single hair that’s long enough to catch. I can’t believe I’ve been shaving every day for 20 years when this method existed. It’s so much better in every way. You get the lasting results of waxing but with many more benefits. It’s cheap, as in FREE every time you use it, (once you buy it.) It’s so easy to use anywhere anytime- in my camping tent with minimal lighting, while watching tv, in the car (as a passenger). No more wasting money on razors and shaving cream. No shower mess. No nicks and cuts. So nice!! As all the reviews say, IT IS PAINFUL the first couple times. Like waxing in slow motion. But you do get used to it and I kind of like it now. It’s such a satisfying feeling in a strange way.

I'm glad I got my pair just before this model got discontinued. Its easy to use and the wide head helps cover more in less cycles. It is one of those models that become a legend long after the production have stopped. I wish Braun brings it back, as do many other consumers who can swear by this product.

I started on this epilator journey several months ago. The main reason for the journey is that I was going to a five day music festival, where I would be camping and wearing very little clothing for the world to see all my most secret parts. One night I was in nothing but pasties, a thong, and a mesh dress. I did not want to be worried with shaving and hair maintenance everyday. I have dark, thick, course hair. Shaving everyday also irritates my skin. I had considered waxing, but that’s very expensive and I couldn’t do any maintenance myself. I did end up at the waxer for one area which I will explain later. One thing I did before starting this journey was I also stocked up on lidocaine cream. Before my first round on any area, I put on lidocaine and let it sit for 40min to an hour. The extra time does make a difference. The first epilation is the most painful, so I wanted to help it a little. That being said, it still hurts, and I have a high pain tolerance. If you are a wussy, not sure anything will help. Legs: I started on my legs. And by I, I mean I made my husband start on my legs. I didn’t do any area on my own the first time. You can’t psych yourself out if someone else does it. Anyway, it hurt, but not unbearable. I did several rounds over the next several days to get any stray hair. After the initial run, it is not at all painful. It only hurts the closer you get on the upper thigh to your lady parts. The nice thing is, once the hair starts to grow back, it comes in at different times, so it’s never like the first time where you are doing a ton of hair at once. I epilate my legs about once a week. You will have to shave any of the baby hairs that the epilator can’t get, but I just do that after I epilate. It’s only my upper thighs that get the baby hairs. I also do it all myself now which my husband is grateful for. Armpits: Holy mother of sweet baby Jesus. I would rather give birth again than epilate my armpits for the first time. Even with lidocaine, it was awful. I had to have my husband help with several rounds over several days. I stuck it out after how much I enjoyed my legs, though. The not having to worry about it everyday, the lack of itching from regrowth, and it’s better for your skin than waxing, all made me want to tough it out. I am so glad I did. Like my legs, I just check for an regrowth about once a week and take care of it. There is only minor pain. Like plucking your eyebrows. The Vag: Nope. Just nope. So, I lidocained for an hour, and then I had my husband start on the area near my c-section scar since I am pretty numb there, anyway. He got about three hairs and I said NOPE. We were only a few days away from our trip by the time I decided to make my way to that area. I made a waxing appointment, which obviously still hurts, but it’s a different beast. BUT, from there I have been able to maintain the regrowth on my bikini area and upper vag area. It is like the armpits where it stings but not like being stabbed with a million knives like the first time. The area nearer the taco and the taco meat is still a nope. Plus it is hard to get in the tighter spaces and kind of gross too. I go every six weeks for a butt strip wax and have them do the areas I can’t get. I shave in between those if needed. Again, it is all worth it for no itchiness/skin irritation and how long I can go without stressing it. My husband repeatedly talks about how much he loves the smoothness. I maintain the bikini and upper area probably once a week, sometimes I ignore it for two weeks. Pros: No itching from regrowth No skin irritation - you may get little red bumps but they go away within a few hours. Maintenance is infrequent Cons: Getting through the first epilation Other hints: Epilating after a warm shower and exfoliating while in the shower makes epilation easier and slightly less painful.

Okay lets break down this product. 1, for an $ 80 product it comes with a very bad instruction manual. ( you have to go to a salon just to learn how to us it correctly. and even then it works poorly) 2. This company did absolutely 0 research on men who have to get rid of hair.. and it's in the billions: won't work on men hair types.... and yes there is minor differences between men hair and women hair. 3. Pain is always involved: ( any one who says other wise is false adverting) however, the Pluck factor is absolutely horrid. i can single-tweezer better and faster. speed 1 and 2 makes no difference in pluck factor. pain factor is a 5-10 depending on the area. 4. battery life is horrid. 1 full charge can't even do a leg or half a face.... 5. tests: to get smooth. facial hair of various lengths. including shortest, it said it could pluck. # of passes on speed 1 : 50: pain level 7... skin irritation/ red: facial burn= bad sun burn... speed 2: 100: pain level 10... skin irritation/ red: facial burn= bad sunburn... won't even pluck at the shortest length: my hair root starts shaft growth: 4 mm under the skin: leg hair: vibration causes leg muscle spasms at any speed hair has to be trimmed. speed 1: pain level 6 speed 2: pain level 8 It's surprising it took only 3 passes to get smooth. but each pass is about an hour in-between won't pull coarse hairs.. chest: won't pluck at any length just causes pain and skin damage too coarse or fine... 6 or whatever: i think most of the 5* reviews are faked. or these people have the exact type of hair required for these tweezer plates. its a bad over priced product.... most of the attachments don't even work as listed. Id ask for a full refund but the time for such is long past... this product sorely needs a better guide pluck comb Notes: the hairs this device will pluck have to be a certain mm thickness and hair type... these types won't pluck. ( using lamens terms i don't know the medical/ cosmology types) a 2mm thick hair will not pluck. animal whisker hair ( its a type of human hair= usually has no pigment and feels like a cat whisker hense its name )= no go Sensory follicles ( they usually grow 2- 4 mm under the skin first. blackish pigment and wiry usally)= no pluck Irish, Polish, German, Israelite ancestor hair (red or black in pigment usually) ( again it's a genetic type of hair: not actually only in these people )= no pluck due to its courses and thickness neuron bulb hair( its a hair that has white root bulb with long withoilsilicone like substance on the part that grows under the skin= it cause extreme pain and some bleeding when plucked... it is also electro- static conductive-ness) ( no pluck)

I am a male user who hates body hair. This is my first epilator. I decided to try it after becoming impatient with IPL hair removal, which seems to be effective for my legs but had very limited effect for thicker hair like armpits & facial hair. Overall the pain level for my first session was tolerable - for less sensitive areas like lower legs, it feels like a bunch of very fine needle pricks (and surprisingly, armpit hair removal was not painful at all - I was expecting that area to be more sensitive). Sensitive areas like inner thighs, bikini lines, pubic area are unfortunately very unpleasant to do, and will require frequent breaks for the pain to be manageable. One thing I find works well for these areas is to go with the direction of hair growth (instead of against, as recommended in the manual). The epilator will pick up far less hair this way, so it will gradually thin the areas and reduce pain level. I only go against the hair growing direction toward the end of the session. Facial hair was BY FAR the worst - if you are male and wish to epilate facial hair, be mentally prepared, it's not for the faint of heart. Even my trick about going with the grain of hair growth only helps marginally, as facial hair is very thick so the epilator will grab a whole bunch and pluck them all out regardless of which direction you go in. It literally feels like your facial skin is being ripped off - I think the pain level is on par with when I broke my foot. -_- Thankfully subsequent sessions won't be nearly as bad, as long as you keep up maintenance and pluck new hairs while they are still thin.