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The set includes a personal trimmer that has six attachments including both a microshaver and an epilator. Also included is Bliss lemon+sage body butter (which smells delicious) and Bliss ingrown hair eliminating peeling pad. Everything is packed together in a convenient blue beauty bag.

The system is rechargeable so that you can go cordless and you can use either wet or dry. You can get the Philips Bliss Bikini Perfect Deluxe system online from Macy’s for just $78.

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Philips Bliss Bikini Perfect Deluxe

Hair removal is a grown-up thing. Seriously.

To be honest, at the age twenty, I never even considered waxing my legs. ( Just by age twenty-one or twenty-two heehee ). I’ve been blessed with unnoticeable leg hair that I never felt the urgency, but the moment I had it waxed, I could never ever look back again. It’s a hairless dream. Seriously ( Can you keep a straight face? heehee I’m just in a very jester mood! ). 

Kidding aside, I was able to receive a unit of Braun Silk-épil Xpressive for review a few weeks ago, and I thought, what a perfect way to get to know another method for hair removal aside from using tweezers, waxing, threading ( yeowch ), and shaving ( which I think I would say “pass” ). To be honest ( once again ), epilation is a really really new word for me, and I as I learned more about the Braun Silk-épil Xpressive, having microtweezers and everything, I was intrigued. Anything with “tweezers” makes me happy because I love tweezing.

Initial Impressions

I jumped in glee the moment my package arrived. When I took it out of the box, I was greeted with an impressively packaged set – in deep pink shade, very much girly. I opened the box and it had one mini pouch full of electronics, one pack of pre-epilation wipes by Olay ( which they have partnered with ), and an instruction booklet. The pouch full of “electronics” reminded me of dad’s electronic shaver that he had lost while in the course of our moving houses, so I was pretty skeptical if this was indeed an electronic shaver just re-marketed.

With the default “head”, the curious me wanted to know how it worked, and plugged it , and dialed to turn the gadget on.Woah. The sound of blades. Lots of micro blades furiously rolling and rolling.Fear welled inside of me and gulped. Am I really going to let this tool get swiped on my legs and back? 

The First Roll
When night time came, I was a little bit excited and freaked out as well because I will be using the epilator for the first time. After I showered, I tried the epilator with the default, wide head on my legs. ( take note :  towel-dried ). I closed my eyes for a bit because the scary sound of the epilator’s furiously rotating blades were killing me, but for one moment, I told myself, “fight!” As I started gliding the epilator’s blades on my legs, whew, it wasn’t so painful at all! Actually, it wasn’t painful at all! ( at least, for me ).

On my first pass, I felt some quick little stabs of pain ( that is more than tolerable, I might say ), and felt that skin is actually “tweezed,” and not cut or shaved at all. The epilator sure targets the roots, and I was able to definitely feel it. My leg was still not totally clear from hair after the first pass, and I had to undergo a second, or first pass to get my legs to be totally be clear from hair. Voila! Finally! 

What I noticed after my legs were totally clear from hair were,

* My legs were dry. I must admit – I really hate moisturizing my legs, so a lesson learned is that I must religiously moisturize them, or else they look really dry when hairless. No hair means all bare – so, I better grab my bottles of lotion that I’ve been buying and promised to use. Take note that it’s an absolute no-no to apply lotion just before using the epilator. It’s great to use it afterwards, though. 

* My legs were not totally smooth after epilating. Ingrown hair. Lesson learned : exfoliate, exfoliate, exfoliate to get rid of dead skin cells to prevent parts of hair hidden under the skin, unable to be removed by the epilator. Sigh. Twas one hindrance in smoothing my hands in one glide to my legs. There were “bumps.”

To sum up with my review # 1,  the Braun Silk-épil Xpressive is simply heaven-sent , but one must study Epilation 101 prior to using it an “going to battle.” I’ve been surprised with the comments of some that epilating was very painful for I did not experience excruciating pain – or the hair on my legs were simply too fine that they’re not too painful to remove. Well, that’s another review !

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Beauty Gizmo Review : Braun Silk-épil Xpressive Part 1

I know. I’ve blabbered endlessly about hair removal just lately because tis the season to bare some flesh – summer! I’ve talked about razors, wax strips, and several beauty gadgets, but let me just let you know that there’s another new hair removal gadget in the corner, and it doesn’t just offer “for the moment” short-run hair removal – it’s a long term hair removal technology that is found in the new Braun Silk-épil Xpressive Epilator.

Ø Patented HairLift technology that lifts, loosens and gently removes hair from the root. 

Ø Sonic tweezer system that uses a 40 tweezer epilation system that removes more hair with each stroke than any other epilator.  

Ø Flexible head that can pivot by up to 15 degrees to adapt to the contours of the bodyØ Interchangeable caps for a customized epilation experience

Ø Olay pre-epilation wipes to cool and soften skin prior to epilation

Ø Ability to remove hair as short as .5mm in length – much shorter than the 2-5 mm required for waxing – so you’ll never look like sasquatch in a skirt 

The Braun Silk-epil Xpressive promises women up to four weeks of smooth, hair free skin without constantly waxing, tweezing, or doing the usual hair removal ritual. Its 40-tweezer epilation system removes hair i one stroke, and from the roots that promise women a luxurious DIY hair removal session whose results are more lasting than normal routines out there. It can also be used to various areas in the body with unwanted hair such as the face, the legs, the underarms, and even the bikini area. 

What impressed me is as compared to waxing that requires 2-5mm length of hair before it can be waxed, Braun Silk-épil Xpressive can remove hair as short as .5mm in length.So, another option for me, that I would love to experiment with! What I know is that I am still not willing to undergo permanent hair removal by laser because I don’t really see the need, so I pretty much want to stick with DIY products, or gadgets.

The Braun Silk-épil Xpressive promises long term results that I would love it if it would take hair removal off my worries for a while. I shall be updating you guys on how it fares on me. Let’s hope for the best!

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Beauty Gizmo News : The New Braun Silk-épil Xpressive