Abstract: An apparatus for removing hair from a body part is disclosed, which includes a spiral shaped wire of predetermined length and having a gripping handle fixedly attached to each end. When the coiled wire is pressed against an arcuate surface of skin to be depilated, and the handles maintained in generally parallel relation and rotated in opposite directions, the coils of wire rotate toward and away from the skin surface and progressively open and close their relative spacing to grip and remove upstanding hairs from their follicles in the skin. A method of removing hairs from human skin is also disclosed.