Detoxify your body through your feet! Lose 10 pounds in two days! A vacuum that cuts your hair! We’ve all seen the late night commercials. We’ve all seen the goofy product demonstrations and the promised results. Check out these 8 beauty products from over the years and judge for yourself.
ProActive Solution
This acne treatment system has been promoted by celebrities including Jessica Simpson, tennis star Serena Williams, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Puff Daddy. It’s hard to avoid ProActive if you watch late night TV!
FlowBee
This vacuum haircutting system was all over television from 1990 to 1992. If not for Hurricane Andrew destroying their Florida factory, we may all be getting Flowbee cuts today! Looks like fun!
Ped Egg
This egg-shaped home pedicure device is still relatively new, and is part fascinating and part “huh?”. 138 micro files remove dead skin and calluses from the feet. Look at those shavings going into the garbage!
Kinoki Foot Pads
She’s so peaceful! Commercials for these detoxifying foot pads show subjects applying the white adhesive pads before bed, and waking up in the morning to peel a brown pad of the bottom of their feet. Gross! Claiming to pull harmful toxins out of the body, Kinoki has been debunked by many. But the commercial is still a classic. By the way, who sleeps with the light on and their feet out the end of the covers??
Nair
A huge player in the hair removal market, Nair has been around for a long time. An alternative to waxing, Nair works by dissolving the bonds of hair so that it can easily be wiped away. Do NOT mix Nair with the Flowbee. Trust us.
Hollywood Smiles
This combination of whitening gel and LED Plasma Whitening Light nearly blinded us the first time we saw the commercial! While we haven’t used it ourselves, the folks on the commercial sure look happy with their excessively white teeth.
Topsy Tail
This silly little contraption creates an interesting looking inverted pony tail. We still can’t see how it’s any better than a normal pony tail though…
Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet
Losing 10 pounds in 2 days doesn’t sound very fun to us, but that’s the claim for this little bottle of who-knows-what! Note: this is all you get to consume for 48 hours. Pizza anyone?
I won’t even lie, I have the Ped Egg and I love it. The stuff that goes in the trash REALLY is disgusting though. And if you’re obsessive about doing something, don’t use this! It can hurt if you get carried away!
It looks like it can hurt, I have seen it but not used it
i’ve never even heard of it until now!
i have seen it on infomertcials
i watch them all the time and i never saw it
Has anyone tried the 48 hour diet.. I hope its not losing 10 pounds of water and then on day three I drink my daily dose of H20 and my pants rip open LOL… Anyone? Anyone?
i haven’t tried it, but here’s what i found about it:
“This so-called diet claims to be an exclusive “Miracle Juice” scientifically formulated so that in a mere 48 hours you will cleanse your body and lose up to 10 pounds.
Well sorry to say, but the only 10 pounds you will lose or can lose on the hollywood diet is a combination of mostly water with some muscle loss.
You will never lose 10 pounds of fat or even 1 pound of fat in 48 hours on this diet it’s physiologically impossible.
When you lose muscle you slow down your metabolism. When this happens you will gain more fat. Even if the bathroom scale says you have lost weight, you are actually fatter than you were before because your body fat percentage goes up.
The hollywood diet, if you can even call it a diet, claims to have been created to give your internal body a “break” by washing away unhealthy toxins and fat, and giving your digestive system a much needed break.”
what a let down!!!
have your tried this and talking from experience
no i havent’ and now i wouldn’t
Haven’t tried it but am curious as well
no no no, haven’t tried it… i was just curious and looked it up
me too would like to knwo more
i had enough with what i found…
I heard that the 48 hour diet is disgusting, but I haven’t tried it for myself…and yes, the ped egg rocks!
i haven’t tried either
i haven’t tried anything on this list
i can’t say as i have either not a fan of infomertcial stuff i usually try after i have heard many great reviews
i’d love to buy everything in informercials! haha, they always make them look amazing
I had my doubts of the peg egg but Im going to give it a shot..
one of the others has tried it talk to them
thay said its great
ya they say it works well
you just have to be careful!
peg worked on my coworker. I guess iit depends on your skin type…
ya my tootsie are real sensitive this looks brutal
haha it looks like a cheese grater!
thats what they basically are
yeah but not so brutal
just don’t rub to hard
yeah, or you can really hurt yourself!
you sure could it is really rough
i bet your skin has to be dry right?
Well it’s not too rough so maybe it wont hurt… dont want it to hurt
it looks like it would hurt
it depends on how hard you rub it and how long
i am sure it does but be care anyway
yeah ’cause you might get hurt
Just use gently if you’re worried about abrasion. It should work just fine, oh, and use it with soap to keep it from rubbing you too hard.
nice tip thanks
doesn’t soap make your skin softer? isn’t that worse?
if your foot is wet the skin will just peel off i think
that’s what i think, that it’s beter if your skin is dry so you don’t cut yourself or something
OMG so much to do to be beautiful.. the sacrifices
its alot of hard continuous work for sure
it’s a lifetime job haha
you have to be deadicated
yeah cause if you’re not constant it might turn on you
beauty hurts!!!
yes it does and is pricey too
yeah if you want good quality
yes it does and costs a fortune too
yeah i agree, and you gotta buy the right product, which are often more expensive, so you don’t get hurt or spmething like that
and rely on other peoples experiences
yeah, i love this blog for that reason
Well Im sure not trying any wierd diet no way!!
I would probably try anything if it worked
me not so much… there are some things here that scare me!
ya the hair thing really does
and the teeth thing doesn’t look like it works
Just eat right and work out if necessary. You’ll be way healthier in the end. Speaking of eating right, its time to start juicing again!
yes exercise is key to feeling good
i agree, just a little everyday goes a long way! lol
i agree, with the right diet and a little bit of excercise daily (walking…) no extreme measures are necessary
ya you don’t have to over board with it just in moderation
i believe little things like walking to a near place instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of an elevator really help!
take alittle extra time to get that extra workout in as i should be doing right now
haha i just did it, tired right now! lol
and what is that vacuum thing?? i’m a little scared… lol
I don’t get it either looks crazy
the picture is so funny!
it is funny but i don’t think it can possibly work
me neither, and if it did it would probably leave your hair with an awful haircut
It cuts your hair like the split ends or something
Give me a break, I would not trust that
yeah me neither, even less so with the picture! lol
they sure aren’t selling it here lol
she just looks uncomfortable
I am going to keep watching this blog area for new test gimmicks love to know the resaults
none of the things that are in this article seem to work, all except for the ped egg!
the other girls do say that works
what? the ped egg or the other things?
the ped egg
ah yeah, i read good things about it
those feet pads are disguting
they are, dry skin
disgusting and they don’t seem to work either
but its helps with summer feet
you think? from what i read they don’t really work
sorry i thought you meant the ped egg not those other things
ahh ok ok, yeah the ped egg it’s clear that works, those pads not so much
has anyone used that teeth whitening thing
no but i don’t think it does, sure doesn’t look like it
if i new it worked i maybe inclind to try it out love to have white teeth
i’d rather wear the strips you wear at night, i know those work
another beautity feature that you have to keep up on is keeping your teeth shinny white
i agree! nothing worse than ugly teeth… it’s the first thing i notice
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