It doesn't hurt, honest! (Philips HP 6414 Epilator)

Name: LouisaNott

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Product:	Philips HP 6414 Epilator
Date:	05/06/02 (973 review reads)
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Just keep telling yourself that as you rip the hairs out of your poor leggies and it'll all be fine.

I bought this epilator just before Christmas after trying my housemates version, and was very impressed with it.

The epilator itself looks very stylish, and comes with a little brush to clean it, a mains lead (NOT a charger, it's not rechargable just runs off the mains), a case and a little loofah thing too.

The idea is this....you have a nice shower or bath and scrub your legs with the loofah pad. Then you dry them and settle down (preferably with a glass of wine to help get rid of the pain, that's my excuse anyway), and switch it on. Don't be alarmed by the sound, it's rather noisy. If you want to, put the little rubber "massagy" bits up as it massages your legs just before you rip the hairs out and sort of helps to get rid of the pain.

Then you rub it up your legs against the direction of the hair, yes, it hurts, but it leaves really nice smooth legs for ages. You can build up to doing your armpits, as they really really hurt, but again, it's worth it. 10 seconds of pain for fuzz-free life is really good. Also, don't worry about your bikini line, it's not painful at all for some reason.

My housemate had the version of this epilator with the cool pack. We found it to be rather a waste of time and money as it's designed for the cold to get to your legs AFTER the hairs are yanked out. What use is that? I think this epilator is perfect. It's got two speeds so you can warm yourself up to it, but basically it's a "grin and bear it" type affair.

I recomment moisturising too afterwards, and do your armpits before you go to sleep and don't need any deodorant as it's a bit stingy.

All in all, really worth it for the £30 I paid for it. If you don't believe me, Philips do a 60 day satisfaction guarantee type thing so if you really don'
t like it you can send for a full refund from them.

What do you have to lose?!?

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