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NADS Hair Removal Gel

I'm sure by now we've all seen the infomercials about NADS, created by an Australian woman. In essence, you take this sticky gel and smear it all over your legs. It's sort of like sticky peanut butter, say. Then you lay a strip of cloth on top of that gel so that the gel is sticking to the hairs on one side, and the cloth on the other. Then simply RIP the cloth away from the skin, and the hairs are ripped from your leg root and all. Since you're ripping the entire root out of your leg, the hairs grow back less and less well.

Sounds brilliant, right? Sounds REALLY painful, right? It's no suprise that probably 90% of the infomercial is spent trying to convince you that this doesn't hurt at all. They have all these shots of women sitting there, no facial expression at all, while hair is ripped from their body.

I'm not sure if those women genetically lack pain receptors in their legs, but I have to tell you that I tried this and it HURTS. I'm not by nature a feeble person. I mountain bike a lot and have my share of scratches and bruises on my legs. It's part of what life is about. Believe me, if I could go through a period of pain and end up with legs that had less hair on them (and maybe someday no hair) I would go through that pain.

But any person who has had hair ripped from their head knows how excruciatingly painful that is. And here we're not talking about just a small block of hair. We're talking about entire sheets. I tried cooling the leg area. Taking asprin. Ripping quickly. Ripping even more quickly. The pain just got so bad after a few tries that I would have to put it off for another day - I simply couldn't subject myself to any more.

The problem of course is that roots are there for a reason - to hold onto skin, to keep your hair in place. This gel is ripping HUNDREDS of hairs out, all those roots are clinging to your skin. It takes out skin with it as it goes. That involves pain. Not only that, but the gel isn't intelligent - it doesn't know to cling to hair and not to skin. So you're ripping off skin too.

Sure, the gel is nice and eco-friendly. Sure, this is relatively cheap (depending on where you buy it from). But even when I *did* suffer through the pain and use it, it didn't work very well!! Sometimes it grabbed most of the hair. Sometimes it missed blocks of it.

Maybe this is worth a try if you have very lightly rooted hair and don't feel anything when you yank blocks of it out. You can always get yourself a small set of NADS and see how it works for you. But for me, I would much rather have to shave daily than to go through the agony involved in large scale hair ripping.

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