Today I entered the brave new world of the future. I saw it - and it was scary. Well, putting a laser gun in my hand is inevitably going to be a bit risky.
Today I took it out of its packaging and studied the manual that accompanied it. The first four pages covered all the reasons why it wouldn't be advisable for you to use it. Surprisingly I didn't fall into any of the categories: there wasn't one called 'Letting old woman loose with dangerous weapon.'
It's only a laser gun in my imagination. Officially it's called an Intense Pulsed Light Gun. (Okay, I added the gun bit.) It's supposed to kill hair permanently. Eventually. But before you can use it you have to epilate i.e. get rid of all the hair. They explain why and I was all ready to pluck up my courage and have a go when I read one of the 'It won't work if' things.
It doesn't work on white hairs.
Slight problem here as most of my excess facial hair is white. I do still get a few rogue black ones but was it enough to justify keeping my probably-quite-expensive gun?
I consulted Husband. He didn't care; it was up to me. So I packed it up and am returning it. I'm hoping they will accept it as I've not used it at all but they do have a 'Things we won't take back' list that includes razors. But this isn't a razor. I tried to phone them but after hanging on for what felt like hours gave up and decided to give it a go. Wish me luck.
If they refuse, of course, I will just have to go and zap them with my laser gun.
8 comments:
Good luck returning it! May The Force be with you.
Well that was a disappointing thing to hide in the fine print. So it doesn't work on gray hair, but would work on blonde hair? I hope you get a refund for returning it.
I'm getting more and more random hairs, and had looked into something like your zapper. However, it evidently doesn't work well on blond hair either.
This post has been a public service! Sounds like a very niche product.
The white hair exception is bizarre. What if they're blond? What if they're dyed? Who's been pointing one at my head?
The future means spending an endless amount of time on hold listening to annoying announcements and bad music while you wait to talk to an underpaid drone to correct a problem that shouldn't have happened in the first place. Not that I'm angry or anything.
Thanks all. Apparently the darker the hair the easier it is to kill. So blond, grey, white, none of them will be destroyed.
Won't work on white, blonde, gray hair. That's annoying.
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