Not so painful at all

A good proportion of the reviews I read before buying indicated the highest setting is most effective, yet unbearably painful - i found it to be completely fine, and not a big jump from the low and medium settings. The bulb has 300,000 flashes which is great. There are others advertised under the same product name on other websites that only have 120,000 flashes. So far after a couple of weeks, it seems to have slowed facial hair growth down, though i need more time to tell how effective it is. Pretty happy with easy of use so far and glad i bought this instead of the Lumea that I'd been eyeing for some time. This has bigger flash surface area and worked out cheaper even with a great deal i got from Look Fantastic.