Beauty Dish

Review: Avon Personal Groomer for Men

Gary writes at One Sweet Dream, and he won the Dude Week vote, so he got the lovely nose hair trimmers. (Innocuously called the "Personal Groomers" by Avon. Ha!!) Here's his review:

The trimmer is long and sleek. With a slide-on tube to protect it, it seems like a typical Avon beauty product. The enclosed directions tell you how to insert the single AAA battery (not included), and it's uses - good for trimming eyebrows, ear hair, mustaches - and nose hair. The business end of the thing resembles and electric hedger. Two tiny metal teeth combs move back and forth against each other, cutting off whatever comes between them. The comb is about is about a half-inch long, and less than a quarter-inch wide - plenty small enough to fit inside your average nostril. I have a pretty thick mustache, so I decided to test it here first. I inserted the battery and turned it on. It makes the sound of an angry bee.

I passed it over the end of the front part of my mustache, and the first hair that entered the teeth of the trimmer caused it to jam. It was locked onto the hair and not moving. Ow! I held the thing onto my face while I wandered around the house looking for a pair of scissors. I cut the hair off, releasing the trimmers hold on my face. The comb part has a little hinge which allows the two parts of the comb to separate for cleaning, so I was able to remove the offending piece of mustache hair.

Okay, my mustache hair is fairly thick. So let's try it on my ear hair. My ears tend to get really hairy, especially toward the top of the part that sticks out furthest from the head. Following the instructions for moving the trimmer in the same direction the hair is growing, I moved the comb to the top of my ear - it is really loud in this position! I began my trim - and the thing seized up again with the first hair it touched. Ow!! The scissors were handy this time, but the trimmer had latched onto the hair right next to the skin, so there was hardly enough room to get the scissors in there. Ow!!!

That concluded my test. There was no way I was going to put this thing inside my nose. I've never been all that bothered by excessive nose hair anyway. Perhaps Avon intended this to be used on the finer hairs that sprout on women, in which case I have to wonder what they were thinking when they wrote the directions that included trimming a mustache.

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