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Plus besoin d’attendre mes rendez-vous chez l’esthéticienne pour enlever les poils disgracieux. Je vais sauver plein d’argent en le faisant moi-même.

This product is unbelievable and every female needs one! I would say especially older females who are frustrated at their faces trying to grow a beard! I never have had much face hair, but as I got older it started to be black and lots of it! I’m not one to give in to aging. So I went on a hunt. Finally one day in a random search this Braun epilator surfaced. I clicked on it, read about it, and ordered it. It’s one of the best purchases of my life! I no longer have to worry about facial hair or leg hair or hair anywhere else. I just use my Braun! After I received it I did watch a couple of YouTube videos because I was a little scared of the thing. But I found out there’s no reason to be afraid. I also found out in the beginning, I needed to shave legs or under my chin or wherever first. Then use the Braun. Because hair has growing cycles, I used it just about every day for a week. After that I’d skip a day and graduated from there. Now I don’t have to shave legs, but I do have to shave other places first. At this point in time I’m using my epilator twice a week 2 days in a row and then I don’t have to shave my legs I just use the epilator. I will advise you to do your own searches and test what’s best for you. I can just say, I will never be without a Braun epilator again as long as I live!

My first epilating was with the attachment for the Iluminage Touch, which was AWFUL. (My natural hair color is strawberry blonde, so for it to actually work I needed to wax or epilate. I am absolutely terrible at waxing and it is so messy). Epilating is pretty much foolproof and not messy.
After a handful of tries with the Iluminage attachment and getting frustrated, I did some online recon and got this one. Actually wishing I got the more expensive one with the swivel head, but I didn’t want to invest that kind of money on something I was worried I might abandon.
This was immediately a million times better than a ‘cheap’ crappy epilator
However, no way around it, your first time is going to HURT LIKE A MF-ER imo not *so* bad that you’ll be like “nope, never again”
But it hurts a surprising amount. Even if you’re expecting pain, it is still a surprising amount of pain.
It’s extremely brief though, such an odd sensation. After a very small patch it’s like JFC I gotta stop. But then within minutes you’re like, well nothing hurts so let’s try again
Down closer to the ankles hurts the most as far as legs go. Armpits hurt the most overall for me. Even more than the bikini line. Heck, my ankle area hurt more than the bikini line (specifically on the thighs. I haven’t braved much of the nether region yet).
I did brave my rump cheeks though :’) and that was a breeze surprisingly enough!
I see why butt tattoos are popular, they probably hurt way less than the one I got.

Eventually when the hair grows back, it is DRAMATICALLY easier ^_^
Some spots it did kinda feel like a spicy electric razor; honestly I think those were hairs the Iluminage broke off instead of actually pulled out, so it was their “first time” but they were few and spaced out which makes all the difference.

Just don’t try to do this if you have any fast approaching deadline, you will *definitely* need to take your time with it.
I chipped away at 1 leg over the course of days. Then the next leg over a few days. My first armpit took WEEKS to get 100% done.

What I’ve learned from my left armpit, if you’re especially patient and also extremely sensitive to pain, if you shave first and then just do a little as it starts to grow back enough, shave the rest of the area and repeat over and over again – that’s gotta be the most you can reduce the pain. Since the hairs grow back at different speeds, you aren’t getting the full brunt of ALL of them being ripped out at once.
That’s going to take ages if you’re doing your whole body that way, and I don’t have that kind of patience and I didn’t find it overwhelmingly painful. Just had to take a lot of breaks, a lot of “calling it a day” and just keeping at it daily until it was all done.

Now that THAT phase is over, I wish I discovered this years ago!! I would get horrible razor burn on my upper thighs, that would last until the stubble was back. I never wore shorts, hated swimming even with the bathing suits that have the little skirt.
There was the little red dots the first time epilating, but it cleared up in about 24 hours, and each time epilating the little red dots got less and less and cleared up faster.
I have hyperpigmentation in my armpits and inner upper thigh area, and already noticing that starting to get better! Surprising perk.

There have been a few ingrown hairs but not any gross painful ones, and that’s probably my fault for not having a quality exfoliating scrub or a dry brush when I started this.

I strongly disliked how shaving made my showers take longer, wasting water, wasting time. I’m also trying to get nice, split-end-free hair and taking a faster shower helps with that.

So pro tips from my journey with this, get a decent dry brush and use it on your non-shower days, followed up with a gentle moisturizer. On your shower days, use a quality scrub like any of the popular ones at Sephora. They’re worth the money, the cheaper ones don’t hold a candle to sol de Janeiro bum bum body scrub, KP bump eraser, etc. And again moisturizing after the shower.

My legs and armpits are smoother than ever and stay that way for sooo long. It’s still really trippy. 10/10 better than shaving or waxing 😀

TODO EXCELENTE. PERO SEGUN MI ESPOSA. ES MUY DOLOROSA. AL DEPILAR. TALVEZ HAYA FORMAS DE QUE SEA MENOS DOLOROSA. PUEDE SER. NO LO SE.