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Booooring. It is. Using the Rio machine is boring. I know, it isn’t supposed to entertain me, only stop my hairs from growing. The problem is I didn’t put a Friends DVD to accompany me while “lasering” the offending hairs today and I was very very bored. I didn’t have Friends on because I decided to finally have a look at the DVD that comes with the Rio Hair Remover. About time one could say…

So, my impressions on the “Instructions DVD” that comes in the box: hopefully the money Rio saved in the editing and design of the DVD was used to ensure the machine works… I mean, the DVD works and is quite informative, but:

• the lighting is terrible (no, the woman does not appear under unflattering lights, it’s just that the whole image is so white: white walls, white chair, white woman, white machine… that the menu is very hard to see),
• the sound is not perfect (at the beginning of each chapter you can notice a second has been cut off from the beginning of the sentence. It’s quite funny actually, specially in the Spanish version where the woman goes “tamiento en modo simple” instead of “tratamiento…“. Hey, the machine, thanks to the DVD, did manage to entertain me a moment at least, after all!),
• after playing it all, the DVD stops, instead of going back to the main menu. So? why would I want to watch it all over again? The DVD is 11 minutes long, and a bikini line session lasts at least an hour…

As I was saying, it is actually easier to follow the idea behind the machine with the DVD than from reading the booklet. If you do buy the Rio machine, I do recommend you have a look at the video first of all. It comes in 6 languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish and it shows you how to turn it on, the options and gives you a hint on how to use it. I say a hint, because when they explain the Single Hair mode, they do not tell you how to aim correctly. As I have mentioned in previous entries of Rio Laser Hair Remover, does it work?, if I find it difficult to aim with the Scan mode, I would never make it with the Laser in single hair mode. I was hoping the DVD would explain how to do it.

The DVD does mention that you can use the machine again on the same area, after 24 hours, but it also says that for the hairs to disappear you need 6 sessions over a period of 6 months. My impression is that while in a professional place it would take 6 sessions of say one hour, spread over 6 months, with the Rio Scan Laser machine it will take not only twice the number of sessions in the same 6 months but also more than double the time per session.

So one looks at the machine and goes, why? oh why am I wasting my time with the machine when in a professional place it would be quicker? And the answer comes from the pocket: ‘cos we don’t have the money my dear. Yes, my pocket calls me “my dear”. But does this thing work?? And if you remain very very silent, among the mean laughter of the 90 hairs that continue to grab themselves to their roots with all their might, you will hear the silence of those 10 hairs that you know were there and have not appeared in weeks now.

Shhh… die you little buggers…

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