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I am not a really big infomercial type of girl. I can honestly say I have never ordered anything after seeing one… even when the offer sounds amazing and they plan to send me four for the cost of one. There is just something a little odd about them that makes me keep myself at arms length. I don’t even own a shamwow , even after it was sold in stores1. And other than OxyClean, anything Billy Mays2 tried to sell me, I had to kindly refuse.3
However, this all changed one day while I was standing in Staples a while back. There in the middle of the post-it notes aisle and the paper products, so out of place was a Smooth Away. RoRo4 and I had been talking about her trying it out because she absolutely hates shaving. I am lucky that I don’t have extreme hair growth on my legs… hell I could probably go 2 months and not have a forest below my knees. And above the knee, hair rarely sprouts. But, there I was face to face with the pretty pink box and decided to go ahead and see what it could do for me.
I hurried home and ripped open the box. I read the directions, sat down on the floor and gave it a whirl.
Nothing happened.
So I rubbed a little harder…. and still nothing.
So, I rubbed even harder. After a little burn I noticed the hairs were vanishing. I finished both legs and they appeared pretty hairless. Truthfully it was kind of hard to tell because it looked like my legs had been attacked by a nail file… so much dust and ash. I then decided to test it on DH’s leg. He was such a patient guinea pig but I did learn that with him, it was required we use a little extra pressure and the hair doesn’t just fall off, it get’s all knotted up and needless to say very OUCH worthy! After the end of all of our testing which included legs, arms face we had used every ’superfine crystal’ buffer they had in the box which meant if I wanted to use it again the next time, I would have to spend another $10.
In the end though, I realized that all smooth away is is a glorified piece of sandpaper and I have those in my garage. I think I will just stick to shaving.
- and I love that their dork of a pitchman Vince Shlomi – how could I not with a name like that! [↩]
- may he rest in peace [↩]
- I will admit though that the P90X people had me reaching for the telephone and then I snapped out of it when the infomercial ended [↩]
- one of my trusty BFF’s [↩]
