Product Review: The Micro Touch Magic Personal Grooming Device by Touch Technologies

I tend to stay far away from anything with "As Seen On TV!" on the label, but I was in dire need of an affordable "personal groomer" for men and I wasn't seeing anything else on the racks of my local Walgreens that looked appropriate in the $10 price range. For $5 or $10 more, if you shop around, you can certainly find a better-made trimmer in this, but it's been working for me for a year now and I have no major complaints with it.

Well, I have one minor complaint - it isn't that great for ear hair, in spite of the advertisements showing some yuppie guy happily jamming it on in there. It's just a little too large and cumbersome for the average ear canal. Ear hair isn't a major concern for me, however - maybe in another 30 years or so. For now, it's decent for light facial hair and sideburn trimming, and it's the best product I've ever used for nostril hair removal - just get it all up in there, do one rotation in each nostril with one side of the bladed area touching the skin around the inside, and all that potential overhanging junk is gone for a week or two.

The unit comes with a battery, which I didn't expect for ten bucks, and an eyebrow trimmer attachment, which I haven't personally had a need to use. There's two power settings - low and high - but I find low is fine to do the aforementioned trimming jobs. There's also a little blue LED light that can be turned on - might be useful if your bathroom has really dim light bulbs, I guess? I never use it. Apparently if you order online you also get a "ten piece grooming kit" at the $10 price point, which does seem like a much better value. I just bought the unit straight up by itself at Walgreens, and apparently got hosed.

The trimmer is a bit on the low-power side and the bladed area is very small, so I wouldn't advise trying something like trimming or shaving The Junk with it. I haven't attempted it personally - this thing goes in my nose, man, I don't want Jock Nose or something ridiculous like that - but I have the feeling the unit wouldn't be up to handling thicker areas of hair and would get clogged to uselessness pretty quickly. I've seen complaints around about the unit having mechanical failures, and there's enough of them that I'd consider it an issue when buying, but from my personal experience it's been working for about a year just fine, and I've banged it around in travel bags and such. In fact, I think it's still on the original battery. It's not the most sturdily made unit in the world and I'd try very hard not to drop it, but it's not as flimsy as some reviews I've seen are making it out to be either, I mean you'd have to be mauling and manhandling this thing to be breaking it in the course of regular use.

So yeah - great nose hair trimmer, decent 'stache and sideburn trimmer. Your mileage may vary beyond that. And try not to drop it.