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Braun 5270 Silk-epil X'elle Body System Epilator | 
| Brand: Braun
List Price: $74.99
Buy New: $56.95
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Rating:  331 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 3.9 x 7.7
Warranty: 1
MPN: 5270
Model: Silk-epil X'elle Body System - 5270
UPC: 069055839645
EAN: 0069055839645
ASIN: B000EZYKTS
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Smartlight - A spotlight which helps you capture even single stray hairs resulting in ultimate smoothness | | • | SmartStart Head - This head helps make your start in epilation easy | | • | SoftLift system, part of the epilation system, lifts and guides the shortest and flat lying hairs to tweezers. It helps remove the shortest hairs that wax cannot capture | | • | Active Massaging Rollers - 4-way moving massaging rollers stimulate skin with micro-pulses before and after hair is removed to minimize pulling sensation |
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Product Description
An epilator isn't a shaver in the traditional sense. An epilator pulls hair out at root level and is effective for nearly 4 weeks. It's sort of like electrolysis but is safer and can be done in the comfort of your home. It's as effective as waxing but can be used on parts of their body where waxing might be impractical. Braun 5270 Silk Epil X`elle Body System is faster and more efficient than other epilators. It's both comfortable and practical to use.
Amazon.com Product Description
These days women are busier than ever! Since shaving is the last thing on your mind, Braun created the Silk-epil X'elle -- a 40-tweezer epilator that provides smooth skin for up to four weeks. Best of all, it is significantly reduces the discomfort that other hair-removal systems are known for.  | The Braun Silk-Epil Xelle Body System Epilator offers: - 40-tweezer epilator for long lasting smooth skin.
- Massage rollers to reduce pain.
- Built-in SmartLight to highlight every hair.
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Active Massage rollers reduces pain and discomfort. View larger. | Proven Fast and Painless Hair Removal Epilation removes hair at root level resulting in smooth skin that lasts for weeks. The X'elle features Active Massage rollers that glide over the skin and gently stimulate it with micro pulsations before and after the hair is removed to reduce any pain or discomfort. The perfect solution to all-over hair removal, it features a 40-tweezer system that takes away even the tiniest hair and a SmartLight that highlights every hair, so you can't miss those flat-lying strays. For days when you don't feel like epilating, it comes with an additional shaver head with OptiTrim attachment to trim hair and maintain irresistibly smooth skin. A Smart Design for Easy Control Braun's Silk-epil X'elle is specially designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand. You'll experience easy grip and control for maneuvering the device in sensitive areas. And its efficient Pro Clip feature follows your body curves for fast and thorough epilation wherever its needed -- whether it be the forearms, thighs, bikini area or underarms. Two speeds give you the option of fast or slow epilation. The exclusive X'pert-epil technology has 40 uniquely positioned tweezers, for quick and more efficient results. Regrowth is slow and it leaves hair finer and thinner every time around. With this epilator, you may even save money on disposable razors and waxing. What's in the Box
Epilator, shaving head, brush, and pouch.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 326 more reviews...
 If you're a regular waxer, try this and save $$$$ July 6, 2006
W. Tong (vancouver, BC)
221 out of 223 found this review helpful
I have been a regular waxer for years and I used to epilate, but found that most did not work well or would pinch my skin. This epilator is the cream of the crop! It met all of my expectations and more!
Packaging is nice, but whatever, let's get to the good stuff. It is well-designed, comfortable bean shape that fits nicely in the palm of your hand. It allows for good grip and control, especially with the components on the inside rumbling around.
I used this on my forearms, upper thighs, lower legs and even....underarms. The epilator worked well for all areas and the massaging rollers really do help ease/numb any discomfort you may have. I braced myself for the pain, and was surprised to find little to none at all (keep in mind I'm a regular waxer). The sound of the epilator is a little overwhelming, as it is quite loud.
The optional shaver head is great on it's own and even better with the trim attachment---does the job quickly and easily. I like the fact that if I don't have the option of epilating (hair is too short), the shaver works just great.
The smartlight, I have to say, I LOVE IT. It has got to be the best feature on this epilator. Without it, I would have just gone over the regular areas that I always wax. However, this light picked up every single hair in every nook and cranny on my body. I mean, I discovered hair in places I never knew I had hair----inside the bend of my elbow, on my hands, the crook behind my knee.
The only complaint I have is with the short cord. The cord could be longer, as I had to plug it into an extension cord for it reach properly, and it would be nice to have a swivel on the cord. Other than that, I love this product and would recommend it to others.
 Say good-bye to waxing and shaving! November 4, 2006
Lincoln 6 Echo (Harrisburg, IL USA)
148 out of 150 found this review helpful
I don't know what to say...this is a great product! I remember back in the '80s, we had this crude epilator with a curved rubber tube with tiny slits in it that would open up on the bottom and then close as the tube rotated. Well, it didn't work worth a crap and it hurt like the devil when it did grab a hair. So a couple decades later and there's finally a epilotor that works the way you'd expect one to and the greatest thing is that it doesn't hurt in the long run. It hurts at the beginning, especially when you're doing thick patches of hair, but subsequent sessions it actually feels good.
Anyway, here's the deal. Hair grows in cycles. Not all hair is above the surface at any given time. So when you epilate and you think you smooth, don't be suprised when you find new stubble a day or more later. Don't worry, that's not hair you missed, that's new hair. Because when you pull it out, it's just as long as the other hair that you pulled out before. And how long is the hair under your skin? You'd be amazed. The pieces I measured were typically 5-6 mm long. And hair typically grows 1 mm per 5-7 days. So if you do the math, once your skin is totally epilated, (usually over the course of a week), expect the advertised 3-4 weeks of smooth skin. And the thing is, that if you epilate every month or so, over time, your hair will become finer and thinner. You may even experience total hair loss if and when any given follicle gives up producting hair.
The epilator drum or roller is very unique. It contains 40 metal flaps (tweezers) that move against plastic edges which grab the hairs and pull them out as the drum rotates away from your skin. And it doesn't take much of a hair above the surface for the tweezers to grab the hair. That's probably one of the greatest thing about this epilator. ie. you don't have to wait days for hair to grow to a certain length to epilate them. You can do it with 24 hours or so.
This epilator comes with several different heads and attachements. It comes with the epilator head with two snap-on attachements that supposedly eleviate the pain for mew users. I found out that the one with the rollers wasn't really necessary. The advanced user one more or less makes you use the epilator at a 90 degree angle from your skin. It also helps keep the RPM at a high rate. But it hinders fine placement in those hard to get areas. At which point, it's just as well if you don't use an attachment and go with the bare drum. The other head is a oscilating razor with foil grill as seen in many other razors of this sort these days. However, being a Braum product, it works really well. The razor also has a leading trimmer for those long hairs that won't go into the foil. There's also an attachment that supposedly cuts long hair at the preferred length for optimal epilation.
The spotlight on the on/off switch is excellent. It's one of those little bright spotlight LEDs that really illumate a large area for such a small light. It'll light the area so you can see all the hairs that you missed LOL!
Anyway, if you want the very best of modern epilators, get this one. It'll save you tons of money in disposable razors and/or waxing. It'll pay for itself in just one month.
It's fabulous but... May 28, 2006
Displaced Yinzer (South Bay Area, CA United States)
129 out of 170 found this review helpful
Rather than write a book here... click "see all my reviews" to get my reivew on the 20 tweezer model of Braun epilator. Everything there... applies here, except this one has 40 tweezers.
Then... First of all, order this from Drugstore dot com, where the price is less.
Second of all... the accessories that supposedly come with this, don't. I don't know why, this is not the first place I have seen the accessories wrong, Drugstore has it wrong, too. You will get the epilator with the massaging head... the EfficiencyPro clip (which I think is useless)... and a shaver head with the attachment to cut your hair to the best length for epilation (which I haven't used yet, so can't comment on...) You won't get the cooling glove or the gentle start head.
Now... assuming you were a good girl (or boy) and followed my directions to go to my review on the other epilator... here is a continuation of that. Pretty short and sweet.
This thing works GREAT, for pulling hair. It does in fact have twice the tweezers of the other Brauns so yes, it does work faster, and IMO does a more thorough job.
The casing is a pretty sparkly blue which, while irrelevant to the performance of the product, is quite pleasing to the eye.
But that's about all I can say that is good.
The tweezers, rather than being two metal thingies that clamp together (as with the 20 tweezer silk epil), are actually just one metal hicky that clamps against the plastic of the epilator head. It works fine, but I have to wonder about the long term reliability of such a design and wonder why Braun would make it like this.
Then, the epilator head is designed so that, if you don't have the massaging head on it (an attachment I find useless and cumbersome) the gears of the head are exposed, which is,of course, an aesthetic matter, but makes the quality of this product seem less than that of the other silk epils.
The light, which seems like a good idea, is really just kind of... blinding. It does illuminate the area being epilated, but it does so at the cost of seeing anything else clearly. It has that effect where, you know, if you look at just a little bit of a picture, you can't figure out what the whole picture is? It would be easier to see all your legs in good light than try to see a small portion at a time in great light. Plus if you are moving the epilator in such a fashion that the light is on the other side... IE you are doing the back of your left calve, from the inside, sitting on the floor and moving the epilator sort of down and around to the back... you really can't figure out what you are looking at. It's hard to describe, but the light makes things harder to figure out, not easier - and there is no way to disable the light.
I have actually taken the 40 tweezer head and use it on my other silk epil, because I really don't like the light. I use it in the broadest diaylight I can, finding early morning light as the sun comes in our patio door to be especially helpful/horrifying (you are always hairier than you think you are). I think if I had to use the light, if I didn't have the option to use the lightless unit, I would be a lot more unhappy with this product.
Anyway it's great in ways but... I am left somehow thinking "Wow, Braun had a great idea here!" and "What the $@%! was Braun thinking here??" which is kind of odd. They should really just take the 20 tweezer unit and make it have 40 double-metal-thingied tweezers, don't change anything else.
OK, the blue sparklies are nice.
This is actually sort of a Eurpopean product - if you go to Braun's website, they only have the X'Elle on the European site. I wonder if this model of the X'Elle (there are several other models with various attachments) is a US - only model and is of lesser quality than the others. No way to know for sure but I find it odd that this is the only one for sale in the US (at this time) and the quality is so not in keeping with the other Silk Epils.
I am really not sure of giving this 3 or 4 stars... so I will err on the side of generous here. It's not a bad product, but bear in mind its flaws.
Here are some gotchas November 18, 2006
Mark Twain (Seattle WA USA)
57 out of 57 found this review helpful
I'd give it 10 stars if I could. This device has been a lifesaver for me. I am too much of a chicken to go to a salon; however, with a little trial and error, I've learned to do the epilation everywhere, even on bikini and underarm. My smooth skin gives me so much confidence, and it does not hurt a bit anymore.
If you are a chicken like me, follow my instructions instead of the manual, provided you are willing to invest a lot of time initially. I said initially, because, after a couple of months, the pain will subside and you'll be able to do it any way you want, while watching TV or lulling your baby to sleep. (Yes, the sound does soothe the baby! Consider that an unadvertized perk.)
So here is how to start.
1) Take a long, hot bath.
2) Shave. If you are persistent, that's the last time you ever will.
3) Use SilkEpil on just shaved skin. Yes, there will be hardly any results, but there won't be any pain either, and your muscles will relax; it's important to get into the habbit or relaxing while epilating, reduces the pain greatly.
4) Repeat next day (except, of course, no shaving). Heck, repeat later same day. You will achieve the results gradually while staying within your comfort zone as far as the pain goes. Do it every day until you feel in control, then gradually reduce the time interval between epilations to up to a month.
5) When you begin feeling pain on one leg, switch to the other. Somehow that reduces the pain.
6) Use long, quick strokes until you are comfortable.
7) Holding the device so that it rotates in the direction of the hair growth makes the process much more gentle on you and more time cosuming.
8) If you feel like giving up at any point, remember the 2nd epilation will be nothing like the first; the 3rd will be a breeze.
Good luck!
As for the product, my only wish is that it was cordless.
(Oh BTW, don't let my nick fool you: I AM a woman ;-) )
 Painful, but bearable... May 15, 2007
Katherine E. Wald (MA USA)
44 out of 48 found this review helpful
I can't say that this is not painful because it is. It really hurts!! I have never used an epilator before and used it for the first time today and it did hurt a lot. It was bearable though. I had to take a lot of breaks. I did it while watching TV. It does get all the little hairs too. I am definitely happy with the results and so I am happy with this purchase, but I only gave it 3 stars since it does hurt a lot!! I look forward to doing it again next time - since I hear it does not hurt as much the more you do it. Will update after the second time.
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