Braun 5580 SILK-ÉPIL X'elle Body+face EASY S

Let's get this straight; ignore the what the advertisers will have you think: Epilators are NOT an alternative or substitute for electric shavers/wet razors! Electric shavers/wet razors remove hair ABOVE the root by trimming - epilators remove hair BY the root. If you're considering moving from a shaver/razor to an epilator of any brand or make - DON'T. You'll be in for a whole world of disappointment, and by 'disappointment' I mean PAIN. If you're really thinking of switching from using a shaver/razor to an epilator, try using wax strips or have a professional salon wax FIRST. (If you survive ... more

The lovely summer days, sun, sand surf and hairy legs. Not a beautiful image is it? I have been through most types of hair removal in my time, from waxing (ouch), to sugaring (expensive), and plain old shaving (where I usually forget to do a strip at the back of my legs). So this summer I decided to treat myself to an epilator. ~ How does an epilator work? ~ Essentially an epilator looks like a ladies shaver except for the head, which has a series of tweezers instead of a foil. As the epilator is moved across the skin the tweezers rotate and pull the hairs out from the root, meaning that hair ... more

For some reason, despite being blonde and fairly dainty in other respects, I've been cursed with leg hair that belongs to someone else - someone like my big grizzly bear of a boyfriend! It grows so fast that I usually have to shave my legs every day in the summer, which is a right pain. I've tried hair removal creams and found it just took longer, smelt horrible and didn't last any better, and waxing which brought me out in nasty bumps and didn't even get all the hairs. Bah. Anyway, I thought I'd give this a try as I had nothing to lose other than the 50 quid it cost me from Argos (although ... more

I had been undecided for some time about whether or not to buy this product. Eventually, having read other reviews I decided to get it. There was an offer on on Amazon at the time and as I also had some vouchers it ended up costing £35 instead of £64 as is the price in most shops. With hindsight I'm glad I didn't pay the full price. I'd picked up on the idea that epilating was going to be painful, and so when I first did it I made sure I'd had a glass of wine first in the hope that this would take away some of the pain! It was painful. The set comes with starter head and then standard. Having ... more

I decided it was time to retire my old silkepil which had done me 12 years service and treat myself to a new one. I have been very impressed with it so far, it does a great job and there have definitely been design improvements since my old one came out. The best improvement is doubling the number of tweezers on the head which speeds things up a lot. It does come with the original head too, plus an extra narrow head for under arms, bikini line etc, so there is a lot more in the set than there was. Also included are a couple of new head guards, the original massaging one to reduce the ouch, one ... more