Am i suitable for Laser treatments?

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#21

I had my free consultation today. The woman explained me some of the things about the treatments. She’s very experienced, almost 10 years in the business. We did a small test patch. It is quite painfull actually, but yeah it’s normal because the hair is being killed I guess. So yes it’s hella painfull but I think I can take it with some small breaks during the treatment(atleast some seconds). Afterwards I was a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing ha:). So I kinda forgot what she was saying about the spot size and all of that. There’s a small one and a big one on the Lightsheer Diode Laser. She said both work but what is best for my hands?
Anyway she did one finger and a part of my hand. They’re red now and there’s those dots from the burned hairs. They feel fine now though.

Only thing is it seems pricy. It’s 140 euros per treatment(she mayybe could lower it to 120)for all fingers and hands up to the wrists. That would nearly end up at 1000 bucks after I’m all done.

#22

LightSheer doesn’t have an adjustable spot size. It’s either 9 or 12mm.

You can use a numbing cream or at least ice the area to reduce pain.

#23

Ok that makes things easier. This test should be a good indicator I think. I wonder when the redness dissapears.

Will keep this updated for when the shedding starts.

#24

It’s been 2 weeks since the test and no shedding yet. Skin looks ok and I had no side effects except theres a few small purple dots …not sure what those are. but the more time passes the more they dissapear.

#25

What settings did they use? Did they use compression?

Sounds like you have a bit of bruising, which means the skin may be a bit too dark for the settings used.

#26

I forget…I think she used compression yes.
It’s been almost 4 weeks now though and I don’t feel as though all of the hair has shed. she tested a small area and I dunno maybe it missed spots. If theres barely any hair falling out it means it’s not working, right? im starting to doubt wether i really wanna do this.

#27

Hair should have fallen out by now. Or it should be just in pepperspots. It shouldn’t be growing as usual at 3 weeks.

#28

Well i’m just gonna wait this out. Kinda lost here.

#29

Find out the settings.

#30

Ok I had my first laser treatment on my hands with the soprano today. I think it went well. It was definitely painful, but barely any side effects. there wasn’t even any redness afterwards except only now several hours later i see red dots that i’ve heard about a lot. so yeah it was really painful which is a good sign but is it no problem if the skin wasn’t red and looked really good afterwards?
anyway heres some photos
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4792/treatment11.jpg
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2935/treatment12.jpg

it looks redicilous now at my wrists i guess but the technician says she will like overlap it during treatments and kind of create a natural looking ‘fade’. sounds good to me.

#31

To be honest those red dots look more like irritation or razor burn vs something from the treatment. I had that when I used Soprano on my legs because of the constant gliding over the area. I assume they used single pulses though on your hands.

Pain is good at least you know the settings are somewhat high. For me I’m always red for about 10-15 minutes in the area after the treatment then it goes away right away but different lasers are different. When I did IPL I had red dots everywhere for a couple hours afterwards.

As for your lightsheer experience though, if the hair didn’t shed then it was a waste, don’t go there. You should have full shedding in the area.

Be careful with the wrist, it will be hard to make it look natural. What you may have luck with would be to for maybe 2 or 3 sessions, have them do about an inch up your wrist, and then just do the hands after that. That will remove a bit of the hair right at the wrist there so it will gradually fade into your hands.

#32

Yeah they used single pulses so it was basicely like a Diode. Definitely painful, I doubt I can take any higher settings than that.
And yeah she kind of said the same thing about my wrists(like you said, only a few treatments in that area for the fade). She sounded like she did this before so I hope it will look ok afterwards.
I’m pretty nervous for the shedding. Man I hope this is gonna be succesful.

#33

Just putting this on this page
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4792/treatment11.jpg
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2935/treatment12.jpg

#34

I forgot to mention that the settings used were 40 joules. Now I don’t have enough knowledge on it but that seems pretty high? It was really painful unlike what I keep hearing about Soprano laser, but I’m still surprised at how well my skin could handle it.
Edokid do you think it was a good high settings for my skin type 3?

#35

It’s been 3 weeks since treatment and unfortunately I didn’t experience complete shedding. I’d say about 70% shed. I see a lot of spots that were missed by the woman who did the treatment. Here’s some pics.
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8161/day20treatment13.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6232/day20treatment14.jpg

btw i dont know if the pictures show but i see new hair growing but it’s really thin and grows very very slowly. I don’t recognize it from before.

I’m thinking of contacting them soon for touchups