[Margaret Pilkington]

My daughter once bought me an EMJOI epilator for Christmas......it had a series of wheels around which were wound elastic bands....when you switched it on the elastic bands went round like fury and ripped the hair out of whichever bit of your anatomy it was placed on......it had different settings....thin bands for facial hair.....thicker bands for under-arm hair and industrial type things for the bikini line. That Christmas night she talked me into trying it on my under-arm hair (you can stop laughing right now Nicola68)
It was absolutely excruciating.......and my lovely, kind compassionate daughter rolled about p'ing herself with laughing as I tried to use this contraption. Needless to say it was consigned to its box and has not seen the light of day again.

Having said all that I have had my eyebrows plucked frequently and waxed only once.....plucking is easier and pretty painless. The only problem I have now is I can't see my eyebrows for my glasses......and if I take my glasses off......well, I just can't see my eyebrows to pluck them. So presbyopia DOES have an upside after all.