No. 2: Skin-Lite

Skin-Lite brings the new fad of light therapy treatments, generally available in salons, to the home. The idea contends that stimulating your skin’s cells with colored lights has significant positive effects. Within this concept, it is believed that infra-red light can increase blood flow, improve circulation, and regenerate damaged tissues. Additionally, yellow light can assist in minimizing the appearance of scars, and blue light can target the bacteria causing acne. This is supposed to make your skin look instantly plumper and younger. Skin-Lite is a hand-held gadget that emits pulses of red and near infra-red light in order to stimulate and accelerate the body’s natural healing processes. As an added bonus, this therapy is supposed to also help with acne and wrinkles. Unfortunately, although there are some suggestions that LED light can subtly affect your skin, this at-home device clearly cannot emit enough light energy to make any difference whatsoever. In fact, it seems more than a bit crazy, dangerous, and counterproductive to rain various light rays down upon your skin for any period of time. Any benefit allegedly had by LED light will be negated by the skin cancer or other ailment you attain from abusing your skin with large quantities of light.

No. 1: Emjoi Stylit

Apparently there must be a secret, underground group of women somewhere really put-out and aggravated by the energy exerted while brushing your hair. And it is clearly this same group of people that blessed us with the electric hairbrush. Under no circumstances would an electric hairbrush ever be necessary. The head-and-down combing motion does not utilize much muscle power. The Emjoi Stylit, with its five rows of dual-opposed combs moving back and forth at more than 100 times per second, claims that your hair will look “just shampooed” after use. It also supposedly separates and shakes your hair to add volume and shine. However, it seems that the Emjoi Stylit can only succeed in making a knotted mess of your otherwise decent hair. And anyone can add volume to their hair with proper use of a regular brush; no need to plug anything in and it only costs about $5 to $10 at your local store.

Perhaps the craziest aspect to these crazy beauty-enhancing gadgets is that somewhere, someone is probably pretty happy with themselves for inventing one. And the fact that we know these gadgets exist confirms that numerous people thought they needed these products and were willing to use their hard-earned money to purchase them. Unfortunately, each and every one of those people was probably disappointed, for not a single one of these gadgets can provide you with any real beauty-enhancing benefit.

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