Flawless Hair Removal Began as a Lipstick Look-Alike and Grew Into a Whole Routine

Flawless Hair Removal Began as a Lipstick Look-Alike and Grew Into a Whole Routine

Flawless hair removal started in 2017 with a battery-powered device that looks like a lipstick. This edit builds the routine around it, with sonic and micro-blade tools, tweezers, body moisturizers for shave days and after-care for the skin below.

Flawless hair removal has a design story before it has a technique story. In June 2017 Finishing Touch unveiled Flawless, a lipstick-shaped device for facial hair, with an 18 karat gold-plated head and a built-in light, made by Ideavillage and its founder Andy Khubani. Church and Dwight bought the Flawless and Finishing Touch brands in 2019. That original Facial Hair Remover is the shape most people picture, and what interests me is what grew around it. The two Flawless tools in this grid are a lighted, vibrating dermaplane exfoliator that comes with six replacement heads, and a small micro-blade made for stray hairs from chin to toes. Next to them sits the sonic Dermaflash device that founder Dara Levy invented after six thousand dermaplaning facials in her own spa, so dermaplaning at home came from a real treatment room. The last tool is a Tweezerman set of three travel-size tweezers, from a brand that began with a splinter. Keep the tweezers close, because nothing replaces them for a single stubborn brow hair.

Twelve boxes on a pale gray page, one for each product in the first three grids of this edit, each with its brand and name printed below: Finishing Touch Flawless Dermaplane Glo Sonic Lighted Facial Exfoliator, Finishing Touch Flawless Stray Hair Remover, Dermaflash Luxe+ Sonic Dermaplaning Device, Tweezerman Micro Mini Tweezer Set, Hanni Splash Salve Fragrance-Free In-Shower Treatment, Soft Services Speed Soak Hydrating Body Gel, Hanni The Fatty, Fatty Acid Moisture Stick, Kate McLeod The Everywhere Stick, Murad Clarifying Body Spray with Salicylic Acid, First Aid Beauty Ingrown Hair Pads with AHA + BHA, Luna Daily The Everywhere Spray-To-Wipe and Jack Black Post Shave Cooling Gel.
Flawless hair removal

Four tools for the vanity drawer

Moisturizer for shave days

Anyone who removes hair knows the skin afterward matters as much as the tool. This grid is four moisturizers, all different textures. Hanni Splash Salve is applied in the shower on wet skin and is fragrance-free, which is useful when your skin feels reactive. Soft Services Speed Soak is a lightweight gel with glycerin and squalane that sinks in on contact. The Hanni Fatty stick is waterless and fragrance-free, so it goes in a bag. The Kate McLeod Everywhere Stick comes from a former pastry chef who started in a Brooklyn kitchen in 2016, and it is a balm made with four plant butters for lips, heels and everything in between. My practical tip is to match texture to timing: gel on the days you are in a hurry, balm or salve when you have time.

Four moisturizers for shave days

After-care and what I would skip

Bumps and razor burn are the part of hair removal nobody photographs. The Murad body spray uses salicylic and glycolic acids, and the First Aid Beauty pads add glycolic and salicylic acid with witch hazel. Founder Lilli Gordon launched First Aid Beauty in 2009 to make clean, problem-solving products for sensitive skin. The brand says the pads are designed for use 24 hours after hair removal. Luna Daily's Spray-To-Wipe is a pH-balanced cleansing spray for gym-bag days, and Jack Black's Post Shave Cooling Gel is alcohol-free. What I would skip is layering an acid pad or spray on the very same night as a shave or dermaplaning session. Wait a day, patch test first, and wear sunscreen on any exposed skin you exfoliate. The gel and the spray are the gentler options for the same night.

Four body care picks for after

A routine, not a rescue

I like that this routine is mostly small, specific items. A tool or two, a moisturizer you will actually use and something for after. None of it promises a particular result on the hair itself, and I would be wary of anything that does. Start with the tool that matches your habit, whether that is tweezing, trimming or sonic dermaplaning, and give the skin a rest between sessions. Treat the after-care as part of the process and your skin will tell you what suits it. If you want to keep browsing, I also put together Ulike, the Hair-Removal Brand That Grew Up Fast and Red Lipstick Is Back to Being the Whole Look.

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