Remington Smooth & Silky Total Coverage Epilator, Electric Tweezing System, Pink, EP7010E

I purchased this item twice because after 4 years it broke. But it still lasted long enough to make me save so much on waxing services. It is a bit noisy but straight forward, useful tool that completes the job.

I owned/used a Silk-Epil epilator for many years and it finally stopped working. The same brand wet/dry newer model was almost double the price of this Remington epilator and -- at the time I ordered this -- the reviews for Remington were decent so I chose this one over the Silk-Epil.The first Remington unit I received was practically DOA -- as with another reviewer's experience, the unit would not hold any charge and so would not turn on. I returned it and Amazon sent a replacement. This time, the unit did charge and I was able to use it: I do not have any good things to say about this and, after owning it for over 6 months, will surely not recommend this to others.The Remington epilator is weak. i.e. Slow and not powerful, at all, whether it is fully charged or not.It does not pluck hair well. In fact, most of the hairs broke and so I had to make extra passes.It is painful to use this: I also got many nicks from my skin being pinched by the epilator.And, finally, after using this approximately *3 or 4 times* (at most! This epilator was proving to be so useless to me, I often went to a salon instead) over the course of 6 months, it died and would not turn on even after being charged.If I could give less than one star since ordering this turned out to be a waste of money, I would give it negative scores.

Although I have given very few reviews on Amazon, I feel so strongly about this epilator that I simply had to recommend this wonderful product. This is my first epilator. At age 60 something, I have been increasingly struggling to manage my old lady chin hairs. Who knew you start growing WHISKERS as you age?! This has been an ongoing and silently maddening problem for me for several years now. I have been tweezing daily.Finally fed up, I looked into permanent hair removal. My goodness, the expense!!! So I decided to try an epilator before going to such extreme measures. I read many reviews on Amazon and decided to try the Remington. They have been making shavers for decades, so I figured they know a bit about hair removal. I have only used the epilator twice, but after only my second use, my face has been hair free for 5 days! FIVE DAYS!!! It is so amazing, I keep rubbing my chin and mustache area to make sure I am not imagining things!I use the middle size guard thing, set it on low speed, and go slowly, pulling my skin taut like men do when shaving, repeating areas until I no longer feel any hairs being pulled. Having tweezed for years, the pain seemed minimal to me (I do have pretty sensitive skin), but at any rate, I was prepared for some discomfort. This hair problem has had me so unhappy, I was willing to put up with almost any amount of pain, if the hair could be kept at bay.This just solves so many problems for me, especially travel issues. I can pack this with me for trips lasting longer than a week. No more tweezers confiscated at the security check in! No more waking with whiskers! No more five o'clock shadow!I have course and fine hair on my face. I am hoping, as stated in many reviews, the hair growth continues to become less and less as I use the epilator more. I may try this on my underarms and legs at a later time. For me the simple joy of not having to tweeze my face daily, is quite simply a miracle. I plan to buy another one of these and tuck it away for future.If you hate the hairs on your chinny chin chin, PLEASE try this. With lovely Amazon you have 30 days to return it, so what can you lose besides disgusting, awful whiskers?!If my opinion changes, I will write an update, but for now, I am one happy woman!

This is my first and only epilator so far, so I don't have much to compare it with. I bought this to use mainly on my neck and chin hair that is particularly tenacious. I am not new to hair removal and have tried everything on this area so far. Depilatory creams work, but I get a rash and they smell. Threading hurts A LOT, shaving didn't last longer than a day, and waxing was just getting expensive to do on a weekly basis. I decided to try epilation. I am new to that.For my fellow newbies, epilation isn't like shaving because unlike shaving, epilators pull the hair out of skin rather than cutting the hair at the base. Epilator heads basically have a bunch of tweezers on them, and tweeze the hair out when you run the across the designated area. I was told that you epilate against the grain of the hair and have found that that works on arms and legs. Epilation in either direction seems to work for neck and chin hair that sort of grows in all directions.This epilator is small and easy to handle. Another reviewer said that she/he got a used one by mistake, so I will say that the new box looks metallic purple in color and has the epilator (as you see it on Amazon.com) encased in a plastic case that protrudes from the box. My epilator came with pictorial instructions, a wall plug and cord that connects to the epilator, as well as a two-headed brush to clean out the tweezer head. The head itself can be popped off to clean. When the head pops off, there is a small disc on the underside that can be turned manually so that the tweezers can be individually cleaned with the brush. I know that some epilators are battery operated but this one plugs directly into the wall. The cord is technically long enough to plug into a wall by the sink and then epilate sitting on the floor below, but when I tried that there was a bit of tension in the cord, so if you have a closer outlet, that is helpful. Not a short cord, per sé, but it could be longer.Actually using the epilator was pretty easy. You just hold it at a 90 degree angle to the hair and run it across the area. It has two speeds, medium and fast. I found that it was good to start on medium speed because it was my first time. You don't need to push into the skin but you do need to hold the skin taut. It gets a lot of really long hair but sometimes breaks the hair. I have just been running it over the same area a second time and it's been fine. It seems like this epilator doesn't generally pick at skin and make it bleed, If I run it over areas that have no hair it just buzzes and leaves that area alone. However, I do bleed when I run it over areas that have hair and acne. I have to wait for the acne to dry out/clear up in order to use the epilator. Maybe people who are epilator veterans know this, but I didn't. Oops.The difficult thing with any sort of hair removal is that there will be pain, but I find this to be less painful than threading (by a lot!). Another one of the reviewers suggested using a face wash before chin epilating, and I find that that works for me. It keeps the area clean and dry and makes epilation easier. I also put aloe on right after epilation and have seen only a few red bumps on my skin because of it. They still come, but not many.In general, the epilator seems to work on small areas if you want thorough hair removal. I haven't had much success on large areas like legs, although the epilator has thinned the hair in those areas. Perhaps my lack of success comes from my being a novice. Perhaps a more experienced person knows more tricks. I don't know. It also seems a good idea to have a tweezer handy to catch those few refractory hairs that the epilator justdoesn't catch.Good luck, and I hope that this review was helpful. I bought this product through the help of detailed reviews and hope that I could return the favor.