totally painless needs a battery but works as it should [SEP] as much as i hate to admit it getting close to brings lots of unpleasant changes and some great ones one of the ridiculous things is suddenly discovering random hairs on my face tweezing is certainly effective but takes forever and is tiresomethis is the first little shaver of this type i have used it needs a single aa battery that is not included it is reasonably quiet when running has a little light and is easy to hold it is completely painless as advertised this actually shaves rather than ripping hair out like those epilator things it works well and i do not really have any complaints