Review (2/5): Pretty sure it's just breaking the fine hairs off.
Being new to epilators I bought one and was underwhelmed, so I thought I'd try a few more and see if I could get any improvement. Enter the Braun Silk Epi, which is very highly rated so I thought I'd give it a try. At first I thought it was amazing, less pain than the first one I tried, but I noticed the fine hairs weren't actually being plucked, they were just shorter. Great, that's not what I'm going for here. Not to mention the fact that there's only the epilator head, and the brush head. There aren't even any guards to make the epilator head smaller if I wanted to pluck less hairs at once, even thought the pictures CLEARLY show that there are guards for this epilator. I went over the same sections over and over again, and frequently nothing seemed to happen. I adjusted the pressure I was using, the speed, everything. I'm pretty sure this is just breaking hairs off as opposed to actually doing anything. I also couldn't find any of the hairs that it was supposedly plucking. With my other epilator I would frequently stop and clean it out because the roots were getting stuck to the guard because hair roots are sticky (for lack of a better word), with this one there was never any evidence of plucked hairs sticking, which leads me to believe it was only ever breaking the hair off as opposed to pulling it out by the root. The brush is nice, ergo the second star, but if you want the brush you might as well just pick up a separate brush and a different epilator. Oh, and forget about trying to epilate your arm pits, I tried every direction and went over the areas over, and over to little effect. I finally went back over the areas with my old epilator.