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The Philips Norelco trimmer is an excellent compact tool to trim eyebrows and remove hair from your nose. The one drawback is poor unit to battery contacts which frequently causes it to be difficult to start.
All other nose trimmers are locked into a tube-shaped design with a spinning circle of blades entrusted with the task of trimming your nose hairs. I have never trimmed my nose hairs with such efficiency and comfort. This product is simply the best I've ever owned, and I have had three from the most expensive to the chain-pharmacy-bought cheapest. Trying to trim ear hairs with a tube-shape is useless (you can actually hear when it cuts hair, which is rare). Two year warranty. The problem with that design is that there is nothing holding the hair in place when the blade hits it (as on an electric razor which first captures the hair), so the hair can bend away from the blade. Norelco has simply reproduced a miniature--no, make that micro-shaver and placed it on the side of the thin, slanted tube.
And the attachment for eyebrows makes the results as good--and as simple--as when my barber does it for me. Its design is genius, though its engineering may be the reason it took a company that actually designed shavers for decades to actually produce this innovation. Ear hairs are also amazingly cut on the first pass. Depending only on speed and sharpness of the blade is the deficiency of an architecture that is hit and miss, and, if you push too hard to "help" catch the hair, you can cause a pinch of skin. Eyebrows are not even on the menu. I immediately bought two more for family members. All literature indicates it's made in the USA.
Sorry, we've not yet used it but got it on time and in good condition
I bought one for me & my husband. It's a simple design & works good. I have only used it once but i like the results.
I have just 2 problems with this trimmer - one is a showstopper, the other just irritating design issue. Instead of a simple push on/off button under your finger you have to twist lower half of the body with one hand while holding the upper half steady with the other hand. There are 3 very close positions denoted by very soft dents: middle is Off, right is On and when turned left lower half of the trimmer comes off along with the battery. But wait, here's more. I was careful not to spill water on the rest of the trimmer. One nice day it simply refused to switch on.
And, no, battery was full (I tried several fresh ones) and contacts were all fine. This happened after for the first time I washed the cutting tip under the running water as Norelco recommends. I'll be brief. Goose-neck tip is properly shaped for ear and nose access. Who knows.Usability thing is how Norelco choose to design switching the trimmer on or off. That's already is contrived, inconvenient, slow and annoying by itself. Compared to Panasonic trimmer I had before that was using rotating wire Norelco's cutters were safer and didn't bite the skin.
So my suspicion is that the tip isn't actually waterproof and leaked water into the motor or into whatever nuclear science Norelco jammed inside its wonder gizmo. First of all the thing just died after about maybe 5 uses at most. When switching off it's extremely easy to go past middle dent and dismember the darn thing. Then I dried it overnight before using. Or maybe they simply use cheap inferior motors. Happened to me few times.Otherwise when the trimmer was working and not falling apart it was pretty usable, comfortable and was doing rather well what it's supposed to do. Too bad Norelco doesn't know how to manufactures trimmers well :)
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