Infomercial Fave Finishing Touch is Still Around - And Better Than Ever

Here’s the thing about As Seen on TV items: They’re usually pretty great.

I wrote about the Finishing Touch, and how I knew it as a classic infomercial product, back in 2012. She’s a classic for a reason. I know facial razors are much more in vogue at the moment, and I love them myself (I reviewed Tinkle facial razors here), but there’s something about the Finishing Touch, and I missed having a tiny electric razor in my life. I went to get a Finishing Touch (my old one got the boot a looong time ago) and not only is she still out here taking care of business, the Finishing Touch has gotten a makeover.

There’s now a whole Finishing Touch family, and if I’m being honest, those old infomercial vibes are making me want ALL OF IT. But for now, I got the Finishing Touch Flawless Women's Painless Hair Remover. This new iteration of an old favorite is a cylindrical shape, with flexible, and more gentle, head. It is so gentle, it feels like it’s not working, until you go to apply makeup or, if you’re me, contort yourself in front of the mirror to try and get the light to catch your blonde unibrow hairs, because you’re convinced it didn’t work and you got scammed. But it’s real! It works! My wispy ghosts of a unibrow and mustache are banished!

I used to use Tinkle Razors on my face to help makeup go on smoother, but that was when I lived in LA, wore a full face of makeup regularly, and had to deal with heat, sweat, and Beverly Hills beauty standards. Now that I’m in the Pacific Northwest and on the rare occasions I leave the house, 2/3 of my face is covered by a mask, I don’t worry about peach fuzz disrupting my look. I mainly use the Finishing Touch Flawless to get rid of the hairs around my mouth and between my eyebrows. I also like to just clean up the tops of my eyebrows - but that’s a more precise job and Japanese-style facial razors are still the best for that job.

There’s an LED light in the Flawless, just as there was in the original Finishing Touch, and while I always found it helpful in the old version, this edition, with the circular head, makes the light less useful. This tool is not for precision work (I used the OG Finishing Touch on the tops of my eyebrows, and I would NEVER attempt that with this newer tool). The light may be helpful in certain scenarios, but I find it superfluous. That being said, if you want to banish tiny hairs and smooth out large areas of your skin, this is a much more effective tool than a Tinkle razor, or the original Finishing Touch.

In case you were wondering, I still sing Finishing Touch to the tune of “Invisible Touch” every time I use this thing. Some things never change.