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After just 2 minutes of use, this products heats up to a point where you can't put it next to your skin because it will burn. It says that you can either shave or wax your hair but if you shave and your hair is dark and grows fast there is no i mean n...  Read More

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Highlights

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Quality


Overall this is an impressive hair removal device, it does take quite a long time to cover large areas such as legs and the gro...  Read More


The device is well made, it has a bit of weight to it but not too heavy to hold whilst doing your treatment.


The smartskin sensor detects potential use on skin that is too dark and just stops the lamp from flashing, thus preventing inad...  Read More


Basically, the darker your skin and the lighter your hair colour, the less effective this method of hair removal will be and it...  Read More

Price


I've used this for just over 9 weeks now to give it a really fair chance and have followed the recommended programme for my ski...  Read More


Now as for price, i suppose it depends on the person and how troublesome the hair is.


While this is a costly device, you could use it everywhere on your body which would save you a little fortune.

Packaging/appearance


Once opened the bespoke packaging keeps everything nice and secure and i thought it was a nice presentation of the product.


The unit comes in a nicely designed box and the device and attachments are held well within a plastic protector inside the box ...  Read More


(i would like to have seen a more environmentally sound packaging instead of plastic).


The box contained 4 attachments to use for different areas of the body.

Competitiveness


Like other ipls i tried (mainly braun and philips), this one works perfectly well.


Just ignore all the female branding, i can accept that given how much masculine branding women probably have to put up with on ...  Read More


So there are many hair removable devices out there but i have tried some of the best ones but at the end of the day ipl devices...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    good, few, easy and long.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 4319.
  • Previous analysis of this listing was an D grade.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 30.6% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 222 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 25 2024.

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The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Takes a bit longer to get used to using and a bit longer to notice the difference but after a while i had hair free legs and underarms and don’t have to pluck chin hair as often


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its not clear from the product listing but buried on the philips website it does state this is suitable for men


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Just ignore all the female branding i can accept that given how much masculine branding women probably have to put up with on products they use


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I did the initial 4 treatments on each area over 8 weeks and i now have about 80 hair growth stoppage in the treated areas after just that


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Of the hair that does grow back it is patchy and thin and grows much slower


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    There is also near zero chance of getting ingrowing hairs or razer bumps after shaving


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is very tedious to do a treatment as shaving everything and ipl can take almost 2

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