Groomer Reviews

I bought this trimmer for my husband a few months ago, when he decided to grow a beard for the first time. I shopped and compared with more and less expensive brands and this one by far had the best features for the best price. He had a cheap Conair trimmer that he used for his mustache but it had removable heads you had to change, which he was always losing, it wouldn't hold a charge long enough to trim an entire beard and also pulled hair instead of cutting. This one is great, no attachments to lose, the guard is built in and you just dial the top up for different lengths (it also comes off completely for cleaning). It cuts very evenly and consistently. It's very compact, not much larger than an electric razor and comes with a travel case. It's so fun and easy he lets me groom him now!

Hm, you can get the exact same thing sold under another name for less than 1/3 what they are currently selling it here for at major retailers like wal-mart and bed bath and beyond and many other places including catalogs. In fact, I used a 20% off bed bath & beyond coupon & got it even cheaper. It's called "Finishing Touch". It's the same thing down to the little eyebrow attachment and little brush. The only difference appears to be the coloring scheme, but the main body is still a brushed aluminum color.

I like mine, but I'm glad I paid as little as I did. This is a unique product which should not be unique, and I expect more trimmers like this to come on the market. It's not terribly well-made, but it does do the job. It's much safer, easier, and more comfortable than a blade. It doesn't get as close as a blade, but it does get as close as you can expect a trimmer to, and that's *closer* than the trimmer parts of more expensive electric shavers. It's a closeness somewhere between a blade and the trimmer part of electric razors, if you've ever used those.

It does use a AAA battery, and use a fresh one. It's not loud, but it does have kind of a cheap sound when it goes. Going against the grain of the hair helps a lot, as does slowing down; it's not for huge areas. The 'penlike' shape of it helps you do a good job in difficult sensitive areas and folds in the body, especially where you don't have a good view or easy reach and might otherwise hurt yourself.

These things are increasingly popular as people for men and women enjoy a different intimate look and feel. I'm a guy and I like it and use it for myself just as much as my girlfriend does for herself. They are now marketing an incarnation of this gizmo to men, making the color gray and black to seem macho and not girly, and including an expanded and confusing male-oriented "accessory kit", but even those are being sold for less than half of what this is being sold for on national commercials.

This is also helpful medically. If you are constantly using medical tape or sticky bandages, such as people using silicone patch scar therapy, or circumcised men participating in non-surgical restoration using medical tape (as I am; do an internet search on it), this thing is like a godsend, and, yes, had I not been able to get it for the price I did, I would have paid more for it, knowing what I know now.

I bought this product mainly for use on my light upper lip hair, and I am pretty pleased with how it works. It takes the hair off fairly quickly and thoroughly, although it does leave a tiny bit of stubble that you can feel if you rub your finger over the area. It's not really visible though (for light colored hair...I imagine darker hair would be more visible), unless you look extremely close. It is painless, definitely an improvement over using a harsh depilatory cream on the upper lip, although it does not come out as smooth feeling. It's easy enough that you could use it every day if you need to. I tried it with the comb attachment on my eyebrows, but it didn't have any effect, I guess my eyebrows are not the type that it is intended for. I agree with another reviewer that it is kind of expensive for what it does and I wish there were replacement blades available. The warranty is for one year and I envision that the product will probably stop being effective after 1 year and 1 day, but c'est la vie. I'm pretty happy with it.

Yes, it does leave a tiny, tiny bit of stubble behind but if it is just peach fuzz then it's no big deal. For darker, more coarse hair it probably would not be satisfactory. I think this is a great little gadget for use on the face. It is a quick and painless way to keep unwanted facial hair at bay.

I bought this several months ago and have used it lightly - worked fine for what it was meant to do. However, when it ran out of the very first charge it would not charge up again and now I am stuck with a dead useless trimmer. Complete waste of money.

If you're just looking for a ear and nose hair trimmer, pass on this jack of all trade, master of none.

The Panasonic ER411NC, which can be purchased at Amazon.com, does a much better job and costs less.

(Right about 3.5 stars)

As others have mentioned, this trimmer suffers from a bad stand design; you cannot charge it while it's in the stand. Frankly I don't bother with the stand at all; the trimmer and accessories stay in a drawer in my bathroom where they can't gather dust.

I mostly use the G250 for nose and ear hair removal. It does a decent job at trimming with this attachment. One noticeable downside for trimming ear hair is the noise: it's just a bit too loud to be comfortable. (Might just be my noise tolerance is low, as I grew up on the edge of a pine forest in Maine.) While at home I trim my beard with a larger, corded Norelco model, but the G250 worked fine performing general trimming on a couple of vacation trips.

Other reviewers have mentioned problems with the battery. I'll have to consider myself lucky in this department. I've gotten very good charge retention, with several weekly trimming sessions on each charge.

Bottom line: It's got some flaws, but the G250 has worked well for me.