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Epilator recommendations? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've tried shaving my leg hair a few times now, but it takes an hour or two just to get back with stubble within roughly two to three days at most. Also for some reason my skin just can't help get irritated, no matter how much I exfoliate, apply lotion afterwards, all that stuff. Because of this, I've been looking into other options

  • wax seems fine, but having to buy new stuff each time sounds like a pain
  • shaving cream sounds too good to be true, but from what I've read it also really messes up your pores, so I'd rather not

And so I landed on epilators. Since masc hair is a bit tougher though, I'm wondering if any of you have recommendations of epilators that actually do the trick? I've read a few reviews of some and every now and then you see a review along the lines of "I'm a man and it didn't work properly for me since the battery ran out before I was done" and since I'm not on hormones or anything, I assume my hair growth is similar-ish, meaning it wouldn't be much of an option for me either.

So again, do any of you recommendations for good epilators? And if not, do you have any shaving tricks or generally other ideas for how to get rid of leg, or even better, all kinds of body hair? I loved the feeling I had after shaving my legs, it just sucked that it lasted for two days and then I had about a week's worth of leg itching, despite trying my best to do avoid that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I have a silk epil 5. I havent had any issues with battery life. It's painful when you start epilating because all your hairs are gonna be full thickness. After pulling the hairs out a couple times it gets a lot less painful because the new hairs are a lot thinner and younger. It doesn't hurt at all anymore for me. For hairs that are already thin, epilating doesn't work very well, since the tweezers cant grab on.

I view epilating as a supplemental hair removal method though. It doesn't make the legs perfectly smooth, but it makes hair so thin and so slow growing that I shave probably twice a week. And I only epilate once every 3 or 4 weeks.

It also seems to only work on my legs and thighs. Ive tried epilating my belly and thats what gave me a bunch of ingrown hairs.