About the author People sometimes ask me why I put up this site. Here's the scoop:
I'm a Los Angeles-based writer who wrote commercials at a major agency
for many years, and I still do it to pay the bills now and then.
The rest of my time I devote to doing things I find more worthwhile,
like this site and some fiction projects. That's right, I make
a living selling stuff to people, but I maintain this free commercial-free
site. I like to think of this site as giving something back--
using my powers for good, instead of evil <wink>.
Working in advertising taught me all the tricks of the trade,
so when I was researching hair removal (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!
I hope you'll consider helping out however you can. If everyone
does just a little, we can all make a difference!
Your hostess, Andrea (shooting a commercial I wrote in 2001)
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