This Is the Hair Removal Tool That Makes My Makeup Look So Much Smoother (2025)

My mom, who has coarse, curly brows, has relied on the Mini Slant Tweezers for eyebrow touch-ups for the past 20 years. “They’re the sharpest, best tweezers I’ve ever bought,” she says. “Quick, precise, and no pain.”

She introduced me to the tweezers when I was in high school, and they’ve since become my go-to for whenever I go too long between a brow-threading appointment, too. The slanted tip is comfortable to use and removes every hair right from the follicle—seriously, I can see the bulb come out each time I pluck, and it’s so satisfying. Every brow artist I’ve asked also swears by these.

Best Drugstore Electric Face Shaver: Gillette Venus Mini Facial Hair Remover

• Pros: Gentle; easy to use; travel-friendly
• Cons: Requires multiple rounds to remove hair; better for smaller areas

Abeyta recommends this shaver “because it’s small enough to travel with and glides easily around the contour of your face, targeting fine facial hair.” The device is battery-powered and comes with a tiny, dual-ended brush you can use to clean the head between uses. It’s also equipped with an LED light so you can easily spot stray eyebrow and chin hairs.

I particularly liked this option for shaving smaller areas of my face, like the tiny hairs closest to my upper lip or the fuzz between my brows. The blades were gentle and didn’t drag, even when I forgot to prep my skin with a cream or serum before use. Because of its size and gentleness, though, it was less effective at quickly removing peach fuzz on the larger planes of my face, like my cheeks. Still, I’ll definitely pop this in my makeup bag before my next trip.

Best At-Home Wax: Sliick At Home Microwave Waxing Kit

• Pros: Gentle; good for those with a low pain tolerance; doesn’t require a wax warmer or strips
• Cons: May take some trial and error to get the wax perfectly melted

This kit contains everything you need to wax at home: hard-wax beads, a microwaveable cup, and a reusable applicator. Unlike soft wax, which requires cloth strips to rip the hairs out, this wax is applied directly to the skin and hardens into a strip of its own. Hadley King, MD, FAAD, a board-certified dermatologist and founder of Hadley King Dermatology, prefers hard wax because it “adheres to the hairs, rather than to the skin,” so you can wax regularly with less risk of irritation. “It’s gentler, less painful, and less messy, because it’s easier to remove and there won’t be a residue left behind,” she says. “I particularly like the hard-waxing products from Sliick because they are fun and easy to use, as well as safe and effective.”

Glamour’s Kilkeary doubles down on this wax’s gentle claims. “I’ve found this wax to be extremely effective and pain-free since the very first time I tried it,” she says. “I have a low pain tolerance (especially when waxing my bikini area), and this was probably the most comfortable wax I’ve ever used—it barely stings! I’d recommend this to anyone who has a lower pain tolerance or finds waxing uncomfortable in general.”

Best Dermaplane: Kitsch Dermaplaning Tool

• Pros: Easy to use; inexpensive; comes in a multipack
• Cons: Best for small areas of the face