Hey everyone Joseph from Rum Barber here and last week during our Kemei "Magic
Clips" review we found out that they also make their own foils, and so we thought
we'll get these foils in and give them a shot because at £13.99 they seemed like
quite a bargain. so we bought them in, and we've used them for the last
few days, and we can now tell you some initial thoughts. Now body-wise they feel
fairly similar to a lot of foils they don't feel any particularly different
and a heavier, lighter, ergonomically no real difference
initially. So, initial thoughts, hell of a charge time on them initially,
you got to charge them for eight whole hours for a 45 minute runtime, which
seems quite small in comparison to the Andis foils which have a 60 minute
plus runtime and the Wahl finale which have a 90 minute plus runtime. So,
having finally got them charged, started using them on the floor and to be honest
not a huge amount of difference I'm really noticing between these and
other ones. Okay, they don't feel as powerful in your hand when they go on
but off the back of that they're also a lot quieter than the other foils we've
got particularly the Wahl Finales. Now maybe it's just because they didn't feel
so powerful to me but I felt like I had to go a little bit longer and put a
little bit more work into bald out hair lines and fades. Other people in the
shop have been using them as well and said they didn't really feel that
problem, but me personally I just felt like a little bit of extra work. Now
these are the foils that we got here, the silver foils which are slightly
different from the gold foils that they promise you on the back. The gold foils
usually tend to be the hypoallergenic ones so whether these are hypoallergenic
or not I've got no idea, but if they're not, just extra cleaning for you to do I
guess, one more thing in the shop to clean yay! And it says they shave where
or dry but to be honest any foil if you try hard enough will probably shave wet
or dry.
By the way just to add this in, one of my favourite things about the selling points
of them is that they have a on/off switch, as if as if that was a big bonus
you don't normally get with all these highfalutin big names. Biggest drawback
in these foils however is that they've got one of these little hair trimmers on
the back of it that flicks out, now for domestic use it's probably quite handy
to have a little hair trimmer there to even up your sideburns or something like that.
But in professional use using these throughout of the day, using these on the
back of someone's head your thumbs right there, there's not really any other way
to hold them because if you hold them around the opposite way you've just got
your other fingers there, and one of the stylists in our shop in the middle of
doing a bald fade on somebody using these flicked that out by mistake which is
a pretty easy mistake to make with it, nearly putting a line into the top part
of the blend. That's not something you want to consider
dealing with when you're using the set of foils in the shop. However, on closer
inspection we were having a look at these and we might be able to get rid of
these entirely, we'll get back to you if that whether we managed to or not but it
looks like it's pretty easy to just take these out. Plus as well you've probably
already got a set of trimmers in your shop so you're not really going to need an
extra set of slightly more useless trimmers on the back of these foils,
they're just gonna get away and probably drain the battery even more as well. Now
one of the comments that we got after last week's video was that because
they're quite similar if not... they're not exactly the same as the Wahl Finales, but
they look fairly similar. And one question we got asked was do they take
the replacement foils for the Wahl five-star Finales? Because I made a point
about saying how at £13.99 these are cheaper than even the replacement blades
for the Wahl foils. So, I've got a set here let's take that off, don't mind how
dirty they are I've been using them so far today, and the answer is a resounding
no, they do not take the replacement foils for the Wahl 5 star Finale. So,
they don't take the foil but they don't take the cutting blade either and I
tried it with the Andis one's as well and it doesn't take those either. So, I
really don't know in a few months time where you're meant to get your
replacement for them. Plus as well, this is a week that we've been using these
and after a week of using the Kemei "Magic Clips" and they were fine but months down
the line we had all those problems with delays in the motor, slowing down, not
charging as quickly and I'm just wondering in a few months time if we're
going to have similar problems with these. So, overall initial feelings actually
really impressed with them for £13.99 incredible value for money.
Except that little back trimmer, if you can just get past that you can work out a
way to get rid of that thing and use these without sliding into every haircut
you use and having to redo everything, great, absolutely great. And like I say
so it's cheaper than the replacement foil for other brands you're going to save
yourself a lot of money getting those as well.
Longevity we'll see how it goes with the Kemei products as we've had experience
with the Clippers, a little bit down the line there might be some issues but
right now, no problems at all. If you're interested in saving yourself some money
and getting a pair of them we've put a link to them in the description below. So,
if you have any more questions about these Kemei foils please just go ahead
and ask them in the comments below. Thank you very much for watching and we'll see
you next time.