Product Description

You don't need waxes, bleach or stinging lotions to remove those little hairs on the cheeks, chin, neck and upper lip. Here's a faster and easier way! Just roll the R.E.M Spring bar over unwanted hairs it removes hair from the root, and won't leave skin with rashes, redness or sores like waxing can. Completely natural and safe even on sensitive skin. No harsh chemicals, waxes or creams that can remove a layer of skin. Use as often as you like, and use just about anywhere.

Have the silky-smooth skin you've always wanted without tweezing, shaving or depilatories. Based on the age-old Asian technique of hair threading to remove unwanted hairs, the R.E.M. Spring is safe, effective and easy to use! You don't need waxes, bleach or stinging lotions to remove those little hairs on the cheeks, chin, neck and upper lip. Here's a faster and easier way! Just roll the R.E.M. SpringTM bar over unwanted hairs it removes hair from the root, and won't leave skin with rashes, redness or sores like waxing can. Use wet or dry.

* An easy, painless way to remove facial hair.
* Designed for the use of women on the upper and lower lip, chin, cheek and neck areas.
* Gently removes hair from the root.
* Stainless steel spring.
* Chrome plated brass handles at each end of spring.
* Measures approx 6 3/8" L x 1/8" Dia.
* Instructions included.
* Net weight 1 oz.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #802 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: R.e.m Spring
• Model: R.e.m Spring
• Dimensions: .0 pounds

Features

• An easy, painless way to remove facial hair Designed for the use of women on the upper and lower lip, chin, cheek and neck areas
• Gently removes hair from the root
• Completely natural and safe even on sensitive skin no harsh chemicals, waxes or creams that can remove a layer of skin
• Use as often as you like, and use just about anywhere you don't need to stand in front of a mirror to use it!
• Easy to take along in a purse or travel kit.

Customer Reviews

You have to experiment to get it to work but it does work very well
I ordered this because I read about it in Oprah's O Magazine and they loved it. When I received it, I read the directions and even went to the REM website and watched a video of how to use it, but I couldn't get it to work for me. I almost gave up and thought about tossing it, but then I decided to experiment since there were other people who liked it.
Here's what worked:
1.) You don't necessarily have to bend the spring into a tight U shape as shown in the pictures (you can also use it bent just a little into a wide rounded U shape).
2.) Lay the spring against your skin just below where you want to remove the hair.
3.) As you slowly move the spring upward, twirl the right hand fingers clockwise and the left hand fingers counter-clockwise. If you twirl them the opposite way, no hairs get grabbed (this was the main thing I needed to figure out and the instructions didn't explain it).
4.) Doing this grips the hairs and pulls them out, and yes, it does hurt for a split second but no longer than that and it doesn't leave your skin at all pink or red or irritated. I suspect it hurts more when you first start using it, but after multiple uses, I'm thinking it will hurt less.
I cannot understand why the REM company doesn't explain how important it is to twirl your fingers in the right direction. I was ready to toss the thing. I should add that the hairs I want to grip are not at all unusual (just your average thing). So I'm giving this 4 stars instead of 5 only because I had to figure this out for myself, whereas the company could have done a better job of explaining how to use it. Once you figure this stuff out, the spring itself does a great job and is worth 5 stars for how it actually works.

Update: I have used this for quite a while now, and it by far hurts the most the first time you use it, I guess because it is grabbing the most hairs that first time. I find that I need to use it 2 or 3 times a week, and when you do that, you're only picking up those hairs that are long enough to be grabbed. It hurts much less because there are less hairs than the first time (I think individual hairs grow at different rates). So definitely do not judge this based on the first-time level of pain - it's no big deal and I LOVE the way it works. I have read what other people said about turning "both hands in, then both hands out" and that accomplishes the same thing I recommended (right hand clockwise, left hand counterclockwise) - that accomplishes "both hands in" and that is the sweep that grabs the hairs and pulls them out. The "both hands out" doesn't grab any hairs.

I'VE TESTED IT EVERYWHERE~! Wish come true for this hairy faced Latin/Hispanic gal!
It took a lot of guts to buy this after reading some of the one and two star writer reviews. However, after years of suffering from wax burns and irritated skin from every other form of removal...and because I could never hope to get the job done with teezers...I was willing to give it a try especially after seeing it in Oprah's favorite finds list.

I almost rated it 4 stars because it is tricky to figure out how to use it but felt it deserved a 5 because it gets the job done.

The second I found the REM in my mailbox, I ripped it out of the package (it was 11PM when I got my mail) and proceeded to experiment for the next hour and a half.

Since then, I've ravaged my entire face, removing all of my man hair and some! I had spots above my eyebrows, on my cheeks, jaw line, unibrow, chin, under my ears--alllllll over the place! Yes, we're mammals and are supposed to have the stuff but as an olive skinned, dark haired female, it screams "I'm here" with any amount of light.

Here's the scoop:

- It works like a charm on the face.
- I tried it on my bikini line (look, can't blame a gal for trying). It does not work there very well mainly because of the angle but suspect if someone was willing to assist...(naaah. Not really, would not recommend)
- I tried it on my legs. Nope, not good there either. It's just too much surface area and the angle is strange there also.
- If you are going to work around the brows/eyes, careful...it snags to hair...it does not discriminate and if you're like me you will just want to get it all, and, before you know it, you will have caught half your eyebrown and accidentally rip it off. I almost did that...the trick is stop, unbend gently and pull each end away from the middle. I almost paniced...would have been not good. You will laugh, but, I used some scotch tape to cover my brows to work around the top part of my eyebrow and it worked.

How I was able to get it to work:

- The best way: Follow the instructions--bend it and twirl back and forth--both fingers in...both fingers out fast as you push the device FIRMLY against your skin AGAINST the hair folicle.

I tried it the way a writer recommended by twirling in opposite directions. Though it did work, not as effectively as above.

I also tried holding one side and twirling the other...not as effective.

I tried it slightly bent: it works but depends on the countour of your face. I found that it worked well like this on the top of my cheek.

I worked on my unibrow with it standing up, slightly bent, twirling one end while holding the other...it worked...not as well as if I had used it the right way, but I eliminated a lot of hair.

I don't know if it was psychological or not, but did find that if it was not working for me, I would swich/flip it. It almost seemed like there was a 'right way' to use it.

THE EFFECTS:

- Both my cheeks (the top) looked and felt sun burned but recovered well--woke up and it was gone.

- The first few twirls were painful but after a while, the pain feels no worse than plucking...not as bad as waxing.

- Had a couple pimples break out in unusual spots after the first use but none after.

BOTTOM LINE:

- It took me 2 hours of playing/twirling/experimenting before I felt like I mastered it. I can do it my sleep now...so easy.

- It gets the job done but certainly takes some effort, especially the first go around. Since I obliterated 98% of my facial hair within the first 72 hrs of owning it, I just do maint'ce now. It's been a week and don't think the device has plucked a new hair yet. The effects seem lasting.

I highly recommend it but remember: BE PATIENT~!

Beauty is pain, but the price is nice!
You know what? This little tool really, really works. I wish they'd take the word 'painless' out of their advertising though, because it certainly isn't. As anyone who's tweezed or waxed knows, ripping a bunch of tiny hairs out by their roots at once is anything but 'painless.'

If you're like me, prior to this tool, you had one of three options for hair removal. 1) Use that awful Nair for Face stuff that takes off a layer of your skin along with the hair, and walk around for three days with a red goatee and irritated skin. 2) Face the pain of waxing it off and still walk around with a red mustache and irritated skin afterwards. 3) Tweeze each and every little hair, one by one, consuming a day and a half if you want to get everything. Each option more unappealing than the last.

But this! One little tool you shell out [...] bucks for one time, that you can use without a mirror, sitting in front of the TV, and within a half hour or so be nice and smooth, with no irritated and red skin. SWEET! This little tool is so awesome, I want to tell everyone about it. And it's so simple! No waxes, no tweezers, no smelly creams!

It *is* tricky to learn how to use, however, I will say that. Don't give up, however. Just experiment. The most important thing is the turning of the handles, so that the hair is caught in the spring and literally being twisted off. And it doesn't have to be in a sharp U shape like in the picture. I've gotten bunch of hair in a wide crescent before.

Give it a try if you're tired of the waxing Nairing red face thing! You won't regret it.