Is Your Hair Removal Device an Overpriced Paper Weight?

Written by on November 20, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Wouldn’t you rather know the experiences of others who have tried a device before you pay your money?

When researching, watch out for those who pretend to give personal reviews but which are really only adverts.

This kind of scamming seems to happen whenever people are desperate for a solution but no easy solution is available and that is often the case with hair removal where professional solutions to remove hair permanently are expensive and take months if not a year or so.

The Hair Tell Forum is a great place for looking up any products which sound too good to be true. And in fact many products that promise permanent hair removal are complete scams.

For example one buyer of a hair removal device writes

“I wouldn’t recommend purchasing this product, unless you are looking for an over priced paper weight. I followed the directions exactly. After numerous tries, I realized this product did not work at all. It literally did not remove a single hair, any where! Not to mention the shitty “customer service” provided by the manufacturer”.

Is your hair removal device an expensive paperweight?

Is your hair removal device an expensive paperweight?

If you want hair removal reviews from real buyers, try Amazon which seems to sell everything these days. You may get the odd manufacturer trying to pose like a buyer but I haven’t spotted many of them there and in any case they get “drowned out” by unhappy buyers by the truckload if the products are no good. Try their hair removal products pages here to find the product you are interested in and then read between the lines on each review before making up your mind.

Just look at the difference in reviews between the Tria laser hair removal system and the NoNo hair removal units as an example and it can really help you make up your mind to buy one hair removal system or another or none at all!

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Excess Hair and the Menopause

Written by on November 18, 2006 · Leave a Comment

One account of a 50 year old woman whose facial hair seemed to sprout almost overnight. The solution for her? Waxing.

I try plucking, but am overwhelmed by the forest that seems to be growing from my chin. I am ashamed. I curse the hormones surging through my body. How long has it been since I’ve had a good chin waxing? I can’t even look at my upper lip! I’m afraid that a handlebar may have grown in middle of the night

From “My Menopausal Musings: Old-Man Brows and Other Hair Sorrows” (article link no longer available)

Unfortunately unwanted hair does seem to appear along with the menopause for some women due to hormonal fluctuations. If you have a big problem with this see your doctor otherwise the solutions are the same as for everyone else below the age of the menopause – waxing, plucking, electrolysis, laser hair removal. It’s just something new you may have to cope with along with other symptoms of the menopause but definitely something you have plenty of solutions for and there’s no need to get down about it. Take action!

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Hair Removal Scams

Written by on November 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Hair removal is one of those areas where the scum of the earth play on our emotions to try and get us to buy their products and services.

Of course we’d all like to have smooth beautiful hair-free skin and we’d like to achieve it quickly, painlessly and permanently, not to mention at low cost. But those solutions DO NOT EXIST. Believe me I have looked.

Just like in the area of weight loss where miracle scam products are pretty prolific, you’ll see plenty of ads for creams and lotions which promise to stop hair growth and equipment which promise to remove the hair painlessly and simply in your own home.

You can't believe every ad, especially in hair removal

You can't believe every ad, especially in hair removal

All I can say is don’t believe the ads without doing a whole heap of  research online and off. There are plenty of good souls who will tell you whether the product did what it said on the tin and removed their hair painlessly and permanently or not. And if there is no believable (not made up by the seller) review of the product you’re thinking of then it just can’t be the miracle hair remover / hair inhibitor it is advertised to be. If it worked as well as they say it does there would be a whole heap of free positive publicity about it.

The hair removal miracle products change their product names, packaging and advertising as regularly as it rains in Scotland to try and make you think that their scam is something new. They will tell you about medical and consumer tests and show you before and after pictures. Lies all lies….

If you have been caught by any hair removal scams feel free to leave a comment to help everyone else out…

Veronique

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Flocking back to Electrolysis

Written by on November 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Interesting thread on the Hair Tell Forum which starts out by providing a link to an article about hair removal and then moves onto a discussion about the media portrayal of laser hair removal as being so much better than electrolysis even though electrolysis is the only method of hair removal to really work permanently for everyone.

HairTell Hair Removal Forum: Feeling plucky? Options abound for hair removal

It just seems so much more interesting to zap your hair all in one session than to have each hair painstakingly treated over and over with an electrolysis probe in endless sessions until it eventually dies permanently.

Flocking back to electrolysis

Flocking back to electrolysis

Laser hair removal seems to meet the need we have today for instant gratification in all things from dating to diets although you still have to have several hair removal sessions and wait for the hair to shed.

But what is the benefit if after a few months you get the dreaded regrowth? It’s a case of more haste less speed when it comes to laser treatment vs electrolysis. A bit of the “hare and the tortoise” in this tale or the “hair and the tortoise” as it were.

Laser hair removal can still be a valuable method for removing hair from large areas of the body where you don’t have a lifetime to wait to get yourself permanently hair free with electrolysis but don’t go for the quick and less effective method when it comes to facial hair removal. It just isn’t worth it then.

The other option you may want to consider is to use both methods. First of all do a full set of laser hair removal sessions to get rid of the bulk of the hair as quickly as possible, and then take care of the stubborn ones that don’t react easily to the laser treatment and kill them off with electrolysis.

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Beauty’s Darker Side?

Written by on November 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Why is hair removal such a mystery subject?

There’s hardly any information in the beauty books on my shelf (and I have a fair few as a health and beauty writer) and my local library turned up not a single paragraph on hair removal in their collection. Amazon has a few books on it in their huge collection but they are mainly aimed at professional beauty therapists.

It’s no wonder that many girls suffer the misery of unwanted hair and think they must be freaks when it’s really the norm to have some you want to get rid of – about 80% of females apparently want rid of some facial or body hair.

Sephora beauty book

The Ultimate guide to face, hair and makeup brings up nothing with a search for hair removal...

There are volumes written on applying blusher the right way but hardly a word on getting rid of a mustache – and I think facial hair removal wins hands down in the instant beauty improvement stakes.

Still at least we have the Internet to guide us these days, or so we think. But do be careful because there are also a whole heap of sites out there with as much misinformation as solid advice.

Always check what you read before you proceed with several sources especially if you are thinking about buying a product to remove hair that promises a pain free and permanent solution. There is no such thing!

There are solutions which are pain free such as hair removal cream but they are not permanent. And there are solutions such as electrolysis and laser hair removal which will remove or reduce hair growth permanently, but they are definitely not pain free (bearable but not pain free – blame all those nerve endings in your skin).

So keep your scam detectors wired up when you see ads for products and you should be OK.

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