As a parting gift from my old job, my whole team catered to my ridiculous love of As Seen on TV Products. I received a whole Space Bag® of fabulousness. Rather than bore you with a listing of every item I received, I thought I would do one better: bore you with reviews on each individual item. Points I will be covering are inventiveness, practicality and, most importantly, does it work.

The first product I decided to review was Smooth Away, a product that claims to gently exfoliate while at the same time removing your hair.

I waited until Shave Your Legs Friday (and yes, shaving my legs is an infrequent enough event that it deserved its own title) so I would have more hair to work with. I am not a beat or anything, but I did have legitimate hairs that needed removed.

Upon opening the packaging I was welcomed with this cute, pocket-sized kit. Smooth Away® gets total points for thinking about hiding away what could be considered embarrassing toiletries.

It’s when you open the super cute pouch that things start to go south.

Do you spot what’s wrong in there? Let me make it more obvious.

Now when I see the number 3 followed by the letter M, I conjure up images of tape, Velcro, super glue and sandpaper. Particularly that last one. A quick look at the 3M part of Smooth Away® confirmed my suspicions.

Sandpaper.

But I’m no wimp. I peeled off the adhesive backing on the sandpaper and stuck the sandpaper to the Smooth Away® applicators. (Yes, there are two applicators. One large one for your legs and one small one for your more delicate bits. I decided against testing this item with the sandpaper on my delicate bits. Frankly, I wouldn’t have shared publicly if I had, but once I saw the sandpaper, I was out like George Michael.)

After a few deep breaths, I put the applicator on the hand and got ready to go to down sandpapering my leg.

I started rubbing my leg furiously with the Smooth Away® sandpaper, with brief rests in between to see if any hair was going away. Instead all I felt was hot, hot heat like fire going down my shin.

I have no after photos for you. I can’t show you a hair-free leg. Well, I could post a picture of how my legs looked after I shaved them with a razor, but that’s not the point of this review.

So how did the Smooth Away® rate?

  • Inventiveness? Yes
  • Practicality? Maybe
  • Does it work? NO
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