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Researching hair removal methods? HairFacts is about hair removal facts, not sales. It's about helping
consumers make informed purchasing decisions and separating the facts from
the quacks.
Originally a smaller section of her free site for transsexual women, hairfacts quickly grew into yet another free and commercial-free website that’s
beloved by consumers and despised by scam artists and quacks. She’s
the Ralph Nader of hair removal, and her site is the Consumer Reports of fuzz.
Andrea tells how the site came into being:
Believe me, the last thing I ever expected was to become an expert on hair
removal, but I fight wherever I find a problem I can fix.
I wrote commercials at a major agency for many years. Working in advertising
taught me all the tricks of the trade, so when I was researching hair removal
for myself (I was just a bit on the fuzzy side), I couldn't believe all the
deceptive advertising I saw, some of it quite illegal. As I looked into it
more and more, I got embroiled in the whole little soap opera. My research
happened to begin in 1995, just as the first laser was cleared by FDA. When
I got a look at the medical data and compared it to overblown claims being
made by the manufacturers, I started doing more digging.
This ran me afoul of some of the shady characters doing the deceptive claims.
They started getting nasty with me when I put up information exposing their
fraudulent claims. Then one of them decided to put up a sales site designed
as a consumer site. That was it. If that's how they want to play, I decided
I'll put up a real consumer site! And here it is. What started off as a little
project has turned into a huge website with hundreds of pages. Hair removal
is much more complicated than it seems at first!
It makes me mad to see scam artists who prey on those who are desperate to
get rid of unwanted hair: women with polycystic ovarian syndrome, people with
tumors or hormone imbalances, people on medications with hair growth as a
side effect, those whose excess hair makes them too embarrassed to date or
go to the beach. Even those who just don't like having unwanted hair don't
deserve to get ripped off by quacks. Along the way, I've received great help
from lots of consumers and professionals. Luckily, there's only a handful
of scam artists and quacks. I'm happy to announce we outnumber them by a huge
margin!
The hair removal information is split into a consumer site and a forum for
industry professionals and consumers.
HairFacts.com & HairTell.com
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