Makeup Magazine: Makeup Magazine Review - Tweezerman Slant Tweezer

Tweezerman Slant Tweezer won the Hall of Fame award in Allure’s Best of Beauty 2011, with 11 previous awards.

Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price: $20.00 USD

Manufacturer’s description: A ‘Best of Beauty’ winner chosen by Allure editors for 10 years. Positively the finest general use tweezer in the world – top eyebrow artists always recommend our original, award winning Slant for expert brow shaping. The perfectly aligned, hand-filed tips are slanted to grab every hair, every time with the smoothest, true precision. In classic stainless steel or stainless steel with enamel color finishes.

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Here is the Allure Best of Beauty Review for Hall of Fame Winner – Tweezerman Slant Tweezer:

One never knows when inspiration will strike, as Tweezerman founder Dal LaMagna will attest: “The idea for my first product, the Splinter Remover, came to me after an amorous adventure sunbathing on a roof deck in 1979,” he says. As his girlfriend pried 32 slivers of wood from his backside with a pair of dull tweezers, he wished for a more precise instrument. Sometime later, while working at an electronics company, he spotted the tool that could’ve saved his butt: needlepoint tweezers used by assembly-line workers to pick up the tiniest components. LaMagna ordered 30 and began selling them to lumberyards and hardware stores. When a manicurist friend asked him for a similar, but safer, model that she could sell in her salon as a precision brow tweezer, LaMagna found a pair used by diamond handlers in the jewelry business. “I actually didn’t invent the first two products,” he says. “I operated like a gypsy, taking things from one tra de and introducing them to another.” He packaged the tweezer in a clear plastic tube and slapped his name on it. (A salon worker started calling him “the tweezer man,” and he immediately adopted the moniker.) Over the next year, he modified the design of the diamond tweezer to make it just as exacting, but not too sharp. In 1981, La Pluck—now known as the Slant—was born. “Its superthin tips can reach right into the skin and remove whole hairs,” says Sania Vucetaj of Sania’s Brow Bar in New York City. “Other tweezers with thicker edges break more hairs than they pull out.” Splinters, too, we’re guessing.

WHAT IT IS:
Stainless-steel slant-tip tweezers

HOW IT LOOKS/FEELS:
Sleek and sturdy but light in the hand, these tweezers are springy and precise. You can choose from several colors or stick with plain stainless.

WHY WE LIKE IT:
These really are the best tweezers we’ve tried: They firmly grip hairs at the base to ease them out without pinching; they come with a lifetime guarantee and free sharpening. And the bright colors make them easy to find in a crowded makeup bag.

AWARDS:
Best of Beauty 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000; Best of Beauty Hall of Fame 2011

Check out more Makeup Magazine Reviews of the year’s Hall of Fame Products from Allure’s Best of Beauty 2011

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