It hurts and it takes a while (at least on my face), and it costs a fair bit depending on where you’re at… but when it finally starts kicking in, I would STILL say it’s worth it.
Effectiveness depends on your skin and hair color, paler skin and darker hair get better results. Results are permanent, a dead follicle stays dead for good, but you won’t get 100% removal with a single pass because of how hair follicles cycle in and out of active duty. You’ll need to do multiple treatments over the course of several weeks or months depending on how your hair grows.
I had Lazer done on face, chest, arms, legs, and genitals. You need to do like 8-12 sessions but I haven’t had to shave in years. Though there are like 5 clear hairs now that I pluck.
Just for your information, it only works in combination with suppressing Testosterone. as long as testosterone is present in high levels it will come back
I can’t speak for lasers, but if you want to try something less permanent but -much- cheaper, to see how well it works for you or how you like it before you commit to laser, pick up an IPL device (intermittent pulses of light). It works similarly, but if you stop using it for a long time, the hair eventually grows back. Mostly.
Once you get it to the point that it’s not growing anymore, which is like 2-4 months of use as directed by the device itself, depending on your hair/skin combo and the strength of light you use (which in full fairness, it does start as a several-times-weekly commitment) you only need to do spot treatments every few months, which I understand is something you have to do with laser anyway every 6-12 mths, this is just a bit more frequent. If you stop using it entirely, you’ll start to get noticeable regrowth after about 6 mths, but it could stay thin for years. I have some places I stopped doing and they are still noticeably thinner and finer than places that never got treated at all, 5+ years on.
The one I bought was like $125 usd a decade back, so they can be pretty affordable, and might be all you ever want to use since you can do it on your own time.
If you don’t mind me asking, how well does that work? I’m very interested in never having to shave again lmao
It hurts and it takes a while (at least on my face), and it costs a fair bit depending on where you’re at… but when it finally starts kicking in, I would STILL say it’s worth it.
Effectiveness depends on your skin and hair color, paler skin and darker hair get better results. Results are permanent, a dead follicle stays dead for good, but you won’t get 100% removal with a single pass because of how hair follicles cycle in and out of active duty. You’ll need to do multiple treatments over the course of several weeks or months depending on how your hair grows.
I had Lazer done on face, chest, arms, legs, and genitals. You need to do like 8-12 sessions but I haven’t had to shave in years. Though there are like 5 clear hairs now that I pluck.
You can get rid of the clear hairs with electrolysis, they have to target each hair individually but if you’ve only got 5 it won’t take very long
Yeah, I just keep forgetting to make an appointment.
Just for your information, it only works in combination with suppressing Testosterone. as long as testosterone is present in high levels it will come back
This is not true
I can’t speak for lasers, but if you want to try something less permanent but -much- cheaper, to see how well it works for you or how you like it before you commit to laser, pick up an IPL device (intermittent pulses of light). It works similarly, but if you stop using it for a long time, the hair eventually grows back. Mostly.
Once you get it to the point that it’s not growing anymore, which is like 2-4 months of use as directed by the device itself, depending on your hair/skin combo and the strength of light you use (which in full fairness, it does start as a several-times-weekly commitment) you only need to do spot treatments every few months, which I understand is something you have to do with laser anyway every 6-12 mths, this is just a bit more frequent. If you stop using it entirely, you’ll start to get noticeable regrowth after about 6 mths, but it could stay thin for years. I have some places I stopped doing and they are still noticeably thinner and finer than places that never got treated at all, 5+ years on.
The one I bought was like $125 usd a decade back, so they can be pretty affordable, and might be all you ever want to use since you can do it on your own time.
I got one of those high quality hand held laser diod things, but I only succeeded in getting light burns, guess it’s because I’m blonde…