Nico Reyes: Shaving actually really sucks for me,
but I recently saw this on TikTok.
This is the SoftSheen-Carson
Magic Fragrant Shaving Powder,
and it's a depilatory powder
that's supposed to remove hair in five minutes.
I think that if this stuff
can effectively remove my hair
and do it faster
and leave me with, like, zero bumps
on my skin, that would be ideal.
It's also $3.
This product isn't new by any means,
but I did see it blow up on TikTok,
and then I kept seeing it everywhere,
so I really, really wanted to try it.
You're supposed to mix
equal parts powder with cool water,
and then you just apply it to the places
where you want to remove the hair.
So, let's start with my legs,
and then we can move on to my underarms.
It smells exactly like if you mixed Nair,
like that very, almost rotten-egg kind of smell
that comes in Nair,
with, like, an old floral perfume or something.
Do you ever feel the need to, like,
eat something inedible?
'Cause I kinda wanna take a bite of this.
Let's just smooth it out first.
So far, no burning.
OK, it's been five minutes.
I just want to rub it off on a little section
just to see if anything happened, and if not,
we'll leave it on just for a little bit longer.
So, I have my
big, giant bowl of water right here,
and let me just grab a little towel,
and we can test it out.
OK, so I just wiped this little,
tiny section off with my finger,
and you can see the actual hairs
that have come off of my leg and onto the towel.
That is unbelievable!
OK, so I think that it's actually ready to come off.
I'm just going to start wiping my entire leg off.
I did use a bit of pressure
when I was wiping off this little section,
'cause I want to make sure that the hair
is actually coming out of the follicles.
I have tried so many products like this,
like Nair and all that other stuff.
Nothing has ever removed my hair so fast
and so effectively.
I'm in shock.
I don't feel any bumps right now.
My skin does look a little bit
dry and slightly red,
but it doesn't hurt, it doesn't tingle,
it doesn't burn, nothing like that.
I will say that there are, like,
one or two spots that I can see
where the hair didn't completely remove,
but it's still pretty good.
So, now let's move on to my armpits,
which I do not want to be putting on the internet,
but I guess I have to.
I don't know if that worked as well.
Oh, there's hair on here.
I think this magic shave powder does work,
to an extent.
I feel like it worked great on my legs
and it removed most of the hair,
but when it came to my armpits,
where the hair is a bit more coarse,
it didn't remove all that well.
It probably could have benefited
from having a minute or two longer on the armpit,
but the instructions explicitly say
only five minutes,
so I don't want to push it.
The really great thing about it
is that it did not leave behind
any bumps or rashes,
which is what I was scared about in the first place.
This stuff is definitely strong,
so I was expecting it to maybe burn, maybe hurt,
but it did none of that.
And all I have is, like, a bit of dry skin
now that I've taken it off.