darkish skin / thick beard questions

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#21

Few things. For one, that picture is extreme. My face looks red like that always immediately after my treatment, and lasts usually maybe 30 minutes. I find by the time I’m walking to my car from the clinic it’s gone down a lot. (Which is good since my clinic is downtown Toronto so I pass a LOT of people going to the car!) Usually they blow cold air for 5-10 minutes on it after, but I went for a touchup and they redid the whole thing. I think because they squeezed me in like that they didn’t have time to blow the air for as long. Also when I get home I always ice it but I had to give an interview to someone (imagine that, here’s the boss coming back from his laser hair removal session lol), so I didn’t get a chance to ice it.

You can go back 2-3 weeks after, my last session was around 3 weeks ago. I only went back for a touchup but we did the whole thing. If there’s hair there then it doesn’t hurt to re-treat it. You’d just want to wait minimum 2 weeks since shedding can take 2-3 weeks to complete is all.

Going to call my clinic tomorrow to find out the settings used on my face to get that reaction, I never pay attention but would be good to know.

#22

I know I was treated with the 15mm spot size on the Apogee Yag at 25 joules with a 20ms pulse width. Is that a high pulse width? Seems like it but I get good results so not sure!

#23

You should wait 3 weeks before judging, no matter what. A lot of times it can take 1.5 weeks for shedding to start.

#24

Just wanted to post a small update, I started some very light shedding on day 7 [Friday]. I hadn’t shaved for a week so the hair was quite long and noticeable as it fell. I could grab a clump of hair with my thumb and forefinger [the ball of the digit, not with nails] and a few would easily pull out without any effort. Since Friday [it’s now Tuesday] it has slowed down a lot [or stopped altogether, can’t tell anymore after I shaved]. I’ve had maybe a 6-8% reduction at best so far. It’s resulted in a slight thinning of my stubble/shadow in some places, but no real clear patches or anything of the sort.

I think I freaked out a bit when KLT55 said she had no shedding at low settings, so even this light level of shedding was good to see. I’ll wait out the full 3 weeks and see where I’ve gotten to then.

#25

Exfoliate too to help the hair out of the follicles.

#26

Absolutely, I’m exfoliating once every 2 days at the moment.