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Finally Free Hair Remover Electric Current

I've tried electrolysis so when I saw the Finally Free system I thought it was a new, technologically advanced version of electrolysis. In electrolysis, they send a needle INTO your hair canal and actually touch the hair root to dissolve it. As you might imagine, this can hurt. With Finally Free, you instead simply grab the exposed end of the hair with electrified tweezers. The current goes down the hair, destroys the root, and the hair just slides out.

This sounds PERFECT, doesn't it? They claim that after a few months of using this, the hair simply gives up and stops growing back. So it's painless, relatively easy (though a one by one proposition) and in the end you're hairless. Or so they say.

I really worked diligently on this one because it really was painless. It is sort of tedious, grabbing each hair, waiting a full minute, then sliding the hair out. The device isn't well made, in that the clamp for the tweezers is unleveraged and you have to squeeze really hard to get the current into the hair. It's fine for the first 10 hairs or so but after that your hand really starts to cramp up.

But even that I could have taken if it had worked. No dice. I half wonder if the hairs slid out because they were being gently tugged on for a minute and finally just came out. At least it's painless. But even after diligently working on an area for 3 months, there was just as much hair growing in again as at the beginning.

Yes, I know that hair is on a cycle and that at first, the hairs growing in aren't the ones you just pulled out - they are the "other hairs" that had previously fallen out and not yet grown back again. But after 3 months, you're definitely working on the same group of hairs - and they just keep growing back in.

I still have this device and still use it occasionally in the vain hope that it'll do something. It's harmless fun while you're sitting and watching TV (although it does wear on your hand with the gripping issues). But between the one hair at a time issue and the never-seems-to-work issue, it doesn't seem worth it.

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