After several months of struggling to trim my pubes with rather blunt scissors, I decided to spend a whole £10 on this trimmer from Amazon. It was definitely worth it, although I have a few bones to pick with the product.

To start with the silly stuff, the bag is awful. Hideous pink and nasty shiny fabric, it's the tackiest thing I've seen in a long time, even beating my partner's poker trophy. It's much too big for the product, as it comes with the cardboard packaging actually inside the bag. This is a minor issue, but products like this really do need to be kept in something, and I'll need to hunt down a better bag that won't take up half my cupboard or make me cringe when I catch sight of it. While we're on the subject of pink, I do wish the trimmer was in a more neutral colour. Apart from loathing pink and girly products myself, it makes it far more obvious that it's specifically a bikini trimmer.

The trimmer is the main point of all this, and I am delighted with it. The shape is slim, easy to hold and to manoeuvre. It has a little wheel you turn at the side which moves the comb, so that it can be set to 3, 5, 7, 8 or 12 mm. This is easy to use and can be changed while the trimmer is actually on, and the on/off button is fine as well. It took me a little while to get the hang of positioning the trimmer correctly, partly because the instruction leaflet gave the wrong picture, but once I'd worked it out it was simplicity itself to use, and perfectly safe and comfortable for the whole pubic area. That said, you have to squat at an odd angle to use it (I prefer standing over the loo, minimal clear-up), but that's par for the course. I like using the 12 mm setting for my mons, and the 7 mm setting for my labia; I'm not sure what it's like if you are going for much shorter hair. I moisturise with aloe vera after using it and haven't had any irritation from the now-short, freshly-cut hair, whereas I hear that shaving or waxing can cause dreadful problems in that department.

The shaver, on the other hand, didn't work wet *or* dry. I've always heard that electric shavers aren't that good, and this is probably one of the cheapest sort since it's essentially an extra feature thrown in for a product that is primarily a trimmer. After scraping away at my underarms for a good few minutes, I gave up and got about six times as many hairs off with one swipe of my razor. I'm guessing that most people are buying this as a trimmer not a shaver, but if you really want both functions you might be better off looking elsewhere or getting a separate shaver. I suspect that the other combi trimmers/shavers won't be much better, though.