Reading through this thread is making me ashamed at my lack of tolerance for pain, and empathic with those also expressing "ow".
Ow
Maybe I should man-up...
Oh...yeah...right...
Several dozen moons ago, I bought a braun epil-something (it was blue...)
Used it to completely clear my chest, belly, arms, and legs. I think the first time, I enthusiastically ep'd my entire chest at once, after first trimming it down, using attachments that came with it. After that first triumph, however, I could only tolerate a couple of minutes per day. It was, for me, a fairly excrutiating process to perform on myself.
So clearing everything would take a couple weeks. I re-did this process 3 times, before giving it up as a pastime.
T'was smoooth though
I tried the face. Once, for a couple minutes on the chin maybe. Never went there again.
Continued to use "epi-blue" as a trimmer for body hair when I was in guy mode, and content enough just to have less hair.
I nowadays prefer being smooth as much as possible, and am going through razors faster than lipstick
