The Friday Review: A TMI Post - My Thoughts On The Braun Epil Silk 9

So in this review post, we're going to get maybe a little bit more personal than normal, we're talking hair removal, my experience with hair removal and one hair removal device in particular: the Braun Epil Silk 9. This device is the first time I've tried epilating but previously I've used electric razors and waxing for my legs and manual razors for everywhere else. So with that introduction out of the way: here we go.

So I heard Lily Pebbles talk about this razor in one of her videos a while back and I picked it up for £120 from Boots on sale, the RRP of this product is around £170 depending on the retailer. I'd been waxing my legs and shaving my under arms for years and I was having problems with both of these methods, For waxing, I hated having to wait for the hair to grow back and to get an appointment when I was only getting 1 week out of 4 where my legs were actually smooth. With my underarms, because I was shaving they grew back quickly and I was finding myself having to do them every day because of regrowth and it was becoming a bit of a chore. (For review purposes, these are the areas I've been trialling the Epil Silk 9 and I still use other methods in other areas).

My experience with the Epil Silk 9 has been great. On my legs it's no more painful that waxing and I can maintain it myself on a weekly basis. While it is quite painful on the underarms, it's dealt with my regrowth issues and I can now epilate them once every 2-3 weeks and shave between and I'm finding it much more manageable and the hair has become much thinner over just a couple of months use. I wouldn't use this on my bikini line just because of the pain issue but if your pain tolerance is higher than mine that might be an option for you.

The Epil Silk 9 comes with 2 other attachments as well, an electric razor head and an exfoliating body brush. The electric razor head is great, works just as well as any other electric razor and this might be a better thing to use if you're finding the epilating too painful in some areas. However I found the exfoliating body brush to be a bit of a let down. The motor doesn't do much to power the brush and it just vibrates slightly on the skin and for me personally, I find a standard body scrub to be much more effective.