The Hair Tell Forum is a great one 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 ay all. It literally did not remove a single hair, any where! Not to mention the shotty “customer service” provided by the manufacturer”.

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.

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”.

My Menopausal Musings: Old-Man Brows and Other Hair Sorrows

Unfortunately unwanted hair does seem to appear along with the meopause for some women but the solutions are the same as for everyone else – waxing, plucking, electrolysis, laser hair removal.

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.

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

Be afraid, be very afraid if you try and wax your own bikini line. You will regret it – severely.

Read the amusing (though not for the victim) account on this MySpace blog of do it yourself home bikini line waxing. Not for the faint of heart. (Update : link removed to the account of DIY Brazilian waxing as the blog no longer exists on myspace but if you imagine putting on a lot of wax around your bikini area and then pulling the first lot off, being in agony and not being able to pull off any more then you get the idea! Home waxing is something that takes a bit of getting used to as it is never mind starting with pubic hair removal – one of the trickiest areas )

If you can’t afford to go professional with a Brazilian wax, try another method of hair removal down there. See all the other options here: pubic hair removal and bikini line shaping

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.

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