If you’re epilator-curious, the Braun Silk-épil is a good place to start. Allow Strategist contributor Fiona Byrne to explain: “There’s a rotating head with inset tweezer-type things that spin around, akin to a paint roller. You move it over your skin as you would a razor, except instead of shaving your hair, it’s plucking each one out. Even the short, fine ones. It even has a little light, so you won’t miss even the finest little hair. Sure, the concept of mass tweezing may sound insanely painful, but it isn’t — not for me anyway.”
What sets the Silk-épil apart from other epilators is that it can be used wet or dry, and that it has a massage setting. Bryne adds that the massager is crucial to managing the (slight) discomfort – though it might be slightly painful on the first use, the pain is “alleviated somewhat thanks to a ‘massage’ element in the roller that stimulates the skin with micropulsations while in use.” The Silk-épil is now more than half price (in fact, it’s the cheapest it’s ever been): £150, down from £370.
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