I’ve been undergoing LHR on various body parts for a well over one year now. I am seeing roughly 90% reduction after a number of months of no treatments, most of the remaining 10% is less course, less fine, but still definitely black against type III skin. (Male, late forties.) I’m looking for advice. Are there “indicators” that I can use to guide me in my decision about how much to go after that remaining 10% with further LHR treatments? (I’ve decided I’m not interested in electrolysis - whatever LHR can’t get, I’ll live with just fine.) I don’t want to spend the money and the time on LHR if this remaining 10% is going to be very difficult to eliminate, if it will take another eight months, etc. As I asked, are there “signs” I can look for that will tell me that I’d likely have good or poor success? Or, are there generally accepted and established statistics in cases like this that someone can share with me or refer me to?
Sorry, I don’t know much about scientific findings on this issue. But personally, I think LHR would be time and money consuming for you beyond this point. Electrolysis seems to be a good option though, although you stated you are not interested in it.
If the remaining %10 is concentrated on certain regions and if you, money-wise, can cut a good deal with the practice center, then you may treat only those areas: just trimming hairs down to a 1 mm length would be fine for the practitioner to see where to treat. This way you may decrease your spendings, but you don’t have many options on shortening time.
Also, different parts of body respond differently. If your is located on legs then it would be easier, if on back then tougher.
Statistically speaking, if you have received 60% or better reduction from LASER alone, you have hit the winner’s circle. Further treatment from this point with LASER tends to be futile.
Dee - I had a lot of hair, my goal was simply major reduction. So, from my perspective, electrolysis would involve lot’s more time and lot’s more money. (My decision to do LHR in the first place was with great reluctance, although it has turned out well.)
Even though there is still about 10% remaining, that’s still a lot, the idea of using electrolysis to go after each one individually seems way too tedious to me. It isn’t that important to me. I know from reading posts on this forum that there are skilled electrologists that properly handle lots and lots of hairs pretty quickly, but from questioning the few electrologists in my area, they haven’t developed that skill. I don’t want to drive a couple hours to find such people.
pdec01 - Ixnay on posting pictures, I’m far too bashful to do something like that. I will ask my practioner, thanks for the idea. Although - I’d like to have a basis against which to evaluate what I may be told, since my practioner may have an unconscious bias in favor of continued treatments.
If the hair is too fine and sparse, laser is probably not going to be effective anymore. It’s hard to tell you without pictures. Maybe you can post just a portion of the area just so we can see how fine the remaining hair is?
It would be great if you could post details about your experience since you got very good results. Machine type, settings, area treated, clinic used, etc would be great and helpful to other posters here.
I would disagree with the 60% comment. If the hair and skin are truly great for LHR, i.e. very dark coarse dense on very pale skin, 90% should be pretty standard if good settings and machine are used. Good results is mostly about combining all the necessary factors together.