Braun 5270 Epilator

You will NEVER shave again

This is the best product in the world.

Looks like a torture device? Yes.

Feels like one the first time you use it? Absolutely.

Continues to feel like one forever? NO WAY.

I’ve been using this now for a couple of months and do not even FEEL it on my legs. I have to remind myself that it actually DID hurt the first time I used it. My legs are SO smooth. They stay smooth for so much longer, and the hairs are teeny and soft now. Also, I have fewer hairs growing back. My husband told me yesterday morning that my legs were “SO smooth!” (and he rarely comments on such things either way). The funny thing was that the hairs that WERE there had been allowed to grow out to 1/4 inch!

I have the kind of hair that is SO DARK and THICK that even when my legs were freshly shaved and perfectly smooth you could see the dark little hairs through the skin. No longer! They are GONE!

Follow the other reviewer’s instructions pertaining to how to start epilating and you’ll be golden.

Also, it is possible to do you bikini area. Pop some Ibuprofen, give it an hour to settle in, and use Gigi’s Numbing Spray (Amazon or Sally’s) and give THAT a good three-five minutes to settle in. It will still hurt a lot, but be bearable. And it’s WORTH IT! Best bikini line hair removal out of all the products I’ve tried (wax, shave, Nair, Magic Powder). LONG lasting. Same goes for my underarms (you could REALLY still see the hairs even on smooth skin there before the Epilator), but less painful than bikini lines.

Yes, you will get ingrown hairs. As long as you use a strong exfoliating sponge (I found a great super-rough cloth one at Wal-Mart for cheap) you’ll be fine. If you still have trouble do what I do and use an Acne Cleanser on the exfoliating scrubber. The medicine in the Acne Cleanser helps to remove dead skin cells. Keep your skin well moisturized too. Dry skin = dead skin which = ingrown hairs.

Cost an issue? Just imagine how much you spend on razors, shaving cream, depilatory cream, waxing… and then think of spending sixty something dollars once and never having to buy that stuff again. This is the best model I’ve ever used. No need to spend more money.

I recommended this product on my blog and got two of my friends using it regularly, and they got two of THEIR friends using it regularly. Stick with it and you will NEVER be sorry. -Jessica J.

I don’t know why people shave!

I had been shaving for a good long time, and then in an effort to make life simpler and more hair free I got one of these Epilators. I was a bit nervous since the idea seems painful but I tried it out the afternoon it arrived and it was not painful at all. I know that sounds like it can’t be true, but on my legs it really is not painful. I then tried it on my bikini area. It was a bit painful there understandably, but not enough to stop me from using it again a few weeks later on both my legs and bikini. It is great to not have to worry about shaving every other day and this is much faster since it does not involve a bath or shower. The light is really handy, and the little brush is great for cleaning it out when you are done. I know some people complain about ingrown hairs but I have been using the epilator for about four months and I have had a total of one ingrown hair. I seriously don’t know why people shave. -Kathryn A.

Say good-bye to waxing and shaving!

I don’t know what to say…this is a great product! I remember back in the ’80s, we had this crude epilator with a curved rubber tube with tiny slits in it that would open up on the bottom and then close as the tube rotated. Well, it didn’t work worth a crap and it hurt like the devil when it did grab a hair. So a couple decades later and there’s finally a epilator that works the way you’d expect it to. And the greatest thing is, is that it doesn’t hurt in the long run. It’ll hurt a bit at the beginning, especially when you’re doing thick patches of hair, but subsequent sessions it actually feels good. Basically the density of the hairy area you’re doing, the more it’ll hurt. Think about it…the more hairs you’re pulling out at any given time, the more pain you feel…makes sense, right? But when you’re just going afetr a afew strays or the sporatic regrowth, you’ll hardly feel it.

Anyway, here’s the deal. Hair grows in cycles. Not all hair is above the surface at any given time. So when you epilate and you think you’re smooth, don’t be suprised when you find new stubble a day or so later. But don’t worry, that’s not hair you missed, that’s NEW hair. Because when you pull it out, it’s just as long as the other hair that you pulled out before. And how long is the hair under your skin? You’d be amazed. The pieces I measured were typically 5-6 mm long. And hair typically grows 1 mm per 5-7 days. So if you do the math, once your skin is totally epilated, (usually over the course of a week), expect the advertised 3-4 weeks of smooth skin. And the thing is, is that if you epilate every month or so, over time, your hair will become finer and thinner. You may even experience total hair loss if and when any given follicle gives up producting hair. EDIT: I haven’t found this to be true yet, but who knows…

The epilator drum or roller is very unique. It contains 40 metal flaps (tweezers) that move against plastic edges which grabs and pulls out the hairs as the drum rotates away from your skin. It really doesn’t take much of a hair above the surface for the tweezers to work either. That’s probably one of the greatest thing about this epilator. ie. you don’t have to wait days for hair to grow to a certain length to epilate them. You can do it with 24 hours or so.

This epilator comes with several different heads and attachements. It comes with the epilator head with two snap-on attachements that supposedly alleviate the pain for new users. I found out that the one with the rollers wasn’t really necessary. The advanced user head makes you use the epilator at a 90 degree angle from your skin. It also helps keep the RPM at a high rate. But it hinders fine placement in those hard to get areas. At which point, it’s just as well if you don’t use an attachment and go with the bare drum. The other head is a oscilating razor with foil grill as seen in many other razors of this sort these days. However, being a Braum product, it works really well. The razor also has a leading trimmer for those long hairs that won’t go into the foil. There’s also an attachment that supposedly cuts long hair at the preferred length for optimal epilation.

The spotlight on the on/off switch is excellent. It’s one of those little LED bulbs that are used in those multi-LED flashlights, so it is pretty bright. It is kind of necessary in non-flourescent lighting as I notice that if I go outside in sunlight I can see a bunch of hairs (stubble) that I didn’t know I had.

Anyway, if you want the very best of modern epilators, get this one. It’ll save you tons of money in disposable razors and/or waxing. It’ll pay for itself in just one month. – T.A.