PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beauty appliance capable of being used by even a person having weak skin and capable of obtaining superior beauty effect by suppressing stimulation felt as pain by a device of a current-carrying waveform when carrying electricity to the skin.SOLUTION: An electrode part 12 abutted on the skin of a user is brought into a current carrying state with a grasped auxiliary electrode part 11c. Because executing current carrying at a waveform of a higher-frequency pulse as an introduction current carrying period before a main current carrying period related to beauty operation by control of the current carrying state by a control part, the current carrying at a high frequency at which the pain is difficult to be felt is started, and the shocking stimulation at the time of a current carrying start sometimes felt as the pain can be suppressed more small than a case that the current carrying of the main current carrying period is started as it is. The current carrying state smoothly transfers from the introduction current carrying period to the main current carrying period, so that the stimulation accompanying the current carrying can be wholly suppressed, even the person having the weak skin and high sensitivity to the current carrying become difficult to feel the stimulation related to the current carrying as the pain, and can utilize the current carrying at the frequency capable of properly imparting the beauty effect without a resistance sense.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】皮膚への通電の際に、通電波形の工夫により痛みとして感じる刺激を抑えて、肌の弱い人でも使用でき、優れた美容効果を得られる美容装置を提供する。【解決手段】使用者の皮膚に当接させる電極部12が、把持された補助電極部11cとの間で通電状態とされ、制御部による通電状態の制御で、美容動作に係る主通電期間の前に、導入通電期間としてより周波数の高いパルスの波形で通電を実行することから、痛みを感じにくい高い周波数で通電を開始して、痛みとして感じることのある通電開始時のショック性の刺激を、主通電期間の通電をそのまま開始した場合よりも小さく抑えられ、また通電状態が導入通電期間から主通電期間へ滑らかに移行することで、全体的に通電に伴う刺激を抑制でき、肌が弱く通電に対する感受性の高い人でも、通電に係る刺激を痛みとして感じにくくなり、適切に美容効果を与えられる周波数での通電を抵抗感なく利用できる。【選択図】図2
