Braun Silk-épil 7 SensoSmart™ Review

this product really doesnt advertise the fact it really hurts but its tolerable after a while, its best for underarms as it removes all the hairs not so much on your legs doesnt really remove much but maybe thats just me, but its sooo great for underarms!!

This epilator will hurt the first time you use it. It plucks your hair out, but I recommend to move the epilator slowly to your skin as it is more likely to pluck more hairs out.

However, it doesn't remove short hairs really well. If you have sensitive skin, you might want to know that whenever the hair grows back, it gets really itchy. So I pretty much use it on my underarms since I can't stand having itchy legs.

Overall, great product, saves you money from waxing and saves time as well.

My first epilator, many years ago, was the two-speed Braun Silk-epil Eversoft Deluxe (with 20 tweezers) and this year, for my birthday, my husband bought me the Silk-epil 7 (with 40 tweezers). Wow, what a difference!

I love the fact that the Silk-epil 7 is cordless and only takes about 45 minutes to charge fully. Epilating for the first few times does hurt, especially around the ankles, knees and thighs and it will take a while, but it does get easier, faster and painless the more often you do it. I find that around the 4th or 5th time, it only hurts around my ankles and behind my knees.

I tend to only epilate in spring and summer, when the weather is warmer, as I find epilating in winter when it is cold is too painful and difficult. Not only is it uncomfortable, but I find when it's cold my skin almost holds on to the hairs! I tend to shave during winter and then in spring, before I start epilating, I go to a salon for a once-off, full leg wax and then begin epilating once the hair starts to grow back. This seems to ease the initial first time pain and its not as sore once I begin epilating, about a week after the once-off wax.

I did try epilating directly after bathing or showering (as recommended by Braun), but find that when I do this, my hair is too soft and more likely to break. I prefer to epilate a few hours before I bath or shower, but this is just my personal preference, so do whatever works best for you.

Quick and easy to use, removes the hair and gives me more time between treatments. There is no going back each day or every other day, instead I only need to run this over once every week or other week to maintain my grooming. I was scared it would hurt but this is far less painful than waxing.

I hate shaving and have been known to go months without shaving. Once I did my research I chose this one because it can be used wet and dry. Multiple heads so make different areas easier. It's loud but charges quickly. First use stings but gets easier. If the room is warm it seems easier.

It is one of the fastest epilators, so obviously it is less time consuming. It can remove hair less than 0.5 mm and nothing is left behind giving the smoothest skin. The built-in light helps to see the hair which might have been missed. I like the fact that it is a wet and dry epilator. So can be used in shower to minimize pain. I am quite used to waxing and I found epilation using this epilator wasn't painful at all. So, if you could bear the pain of waxing, you can definitely epilate using this without any discomfort. There are five attachments included, yes a shaver and trimmer head as well. Trimmer head is really helpful as when I get lazy and don't do epilation and my hair grow long, I use the trimmer head first, and then replace it with epilator head and that way it doesn't hurt at all. Other thing I like the most about this epilator is the massage rollers it has on the epilator head which really soothes the skin during epilation. It is almost perfect and the only negative I can think of is that it cannot be used while being plugged in. It can only be used on battery. So, I can't use it if there is no battery left by plugging in the charger and have to wait for 40 minutes to charge it first.

The best thing I think about this is it's a shaver AND epilator. I had a separate shaver and epilator and my epilator was almost 10 years old so I got this instead (I figured surely things have advanced in that amount of time). This is available on Fly Buys so I got it through that. I was so right! I think it's far more effective than my old one (this one can grip hairs the size of a grain of sand!) and it's probably less painful as top speed is pretty fast. Don't listen to anyone that says it's not going to hurt. Of course it is. I've been epilating my legs for years and it still hurts. But it's bearable and worth it when you can do this in your own time (you can use this in the shower as it's waterproof but I do my legs outside without time constraints of a shower for example).

The battery on this lasts for 40 minutes, this one cut my time down to about 20 minutes for 2 lower legs and knees (previously it took me about 40 minutes) so is really effective. I love how it's cordless and how it comes with lots of attachments. Even the shaver attachment works really well. I don't use the so-called efficency cap, I didn't find it works that well, I just go to town on my legs full speed with the epilator attachment!

I have even tried this on my face (yes, you probably think I am crazy) just to see how painful it would be - I have never epilated my face before and tried it on my neck and chin. If you are brave this works okay and you can use it for this but bear in mind you may get angry follicles popping up in an obvious place!