1st session of Laser hair removal on the chin

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#1

HI,

I just had my 1st session of the laser hair removal on my chin.
It is still a little numb but i have been infomred by my doc that it will go within 2 days.

Anyway, what i wanted to know is hw much effective it will be after 1st session. I am light skinned with really caorse dark hair on my chin. Though it is gone nw since she shaved before the treatment and has caleld me after a month for 2nd session, I am just concernd if I can go that long without waxing or threading my chin.

I am a girl and it will be really awkward moving around with a beard for an entie month.

Please help.

#2

The numbness will be gone after an hour or so it wouldn’t last 2 days. After 10 days or so the hair will fall out, you can keep shaving the area in the mean time. You’ll then be hair free for about 6 weeks or so and it will start to grow back. You can keep shaving it when it grows back until you go for your next treatment. You just can’t thread it or wax it otherwise you’ll have to wait another 6 weeks for it to grow back again. If you wax it or thread it then you can’t do laser.

#3

Hi Edokid, do you mean that all the treated hair will start to grow back after 6 weeks or just the ones, whose follices weren’t sufficiently damaged? Or hair from new follicles?

#4

Providing you were treated at high enough settings, then the hair that was treated should never grow back it’s dead and gone. After 6 weeks the hair that is dormant right now will grow back. I find though it takes at least 2 or 3 sessions before you really notice a difference though so don’t feel discouraged if after the 6 week point you find it looks the same.

Do you have a lot of hair on your chin ? You may find that electrolysis is better for you since it 100% will kill the hair. When new hair starts to come back it can be treated with electrolysis as well before it even gets very visible where laser you have to go through letting it grow fully and then treat it.

#5

Thanks edokid.

I have lot of hair on my chin and i can already feel the hair growing back…

I am just if i shave too often, it might just start to look like a stubble and make my skin hard too…

Also, you have been mentioning the session gap as 6 weeks but my doc has called me after a month… does it matter?

Thanks for all your help.

#6

A month is too soon. Here’s how it should work:

  • You shave the area and go for a treatment
  • Hair will look like it’s growing normally for about 10 days or so, you can continue to shave during this period. There’s nothing you can do to avoid it looking like stubble, it’s even worse for a guy to do it
  • After 10 days or so it will start to all fall out and usually finish by day 14
  • You’ll be completely hair free for usually 5-6 weeks at which point the hair starts to grow back in the next cycle
  • You wait until the hair has fully grown back, you can shave during this time as well, then you go for another treatment

A month is too soon because you probably will still be in the hair free period by that point and there will be no hair to treat. If you didn’t experience that 100% hair free period for the 4-6 weeks, then the treatment didn’t work and was way too low.

#7

How coarse is your hair? Does it leave a shadow when shaved?

What machine and settings were used?

#8

@ Edokid- Thanks for the details. My hair has already started to fall off but i was under impression that the ones which fall off wouldnt come back again. Yes my doc has called me back after a month. I think i will give her a call and consult her on this again.

@ LAgirl- The hair’s really coarse but I have nvr shaved it before the treatment and it dint leave any shadow…I dint check for the machine settings…

#9

The ones that were treated won’t come back. Think of it like this, your face/body etc is covered in pores or holes basically which are the hair follicles. Inside each of them, picture 8 or so hairs. At any given time, only one of the hairs is actually growing and visible, while the remaining 7 are sleeping and not visible. When you do laser, you kill that one that’s visible. If treated properly, it won’t come back. Same with electrolysis. 6 or so weeks later, hair number 7 wakes up and starts to grow now, so then you do your next laser treatment to kill that one, etc until most are gone. I’m not really sure if that’s how it is technically but just an example to give you an idea of what’s happening.

Just to confirm, you’re saying you’ve never shared before a laser treatment? How long is the hair before you go? You should always shave as close as possible before a treatment with as much hair below the surface as possible.

#10

Hair grows in cycles, which is why you need multiple treatments.

You should call and ask for the name of the machine and settings (joules, pulse width, and spot size numbers). It will help you determine what could be adjusted if things aren’t going as well as you expect.