I had my GentleLASE treatment today and we pretty much just re-did the whole lightsheer treatment. Everything reacted too - and it was as strong as ever, so I honestly have to wonder if the lightsheer even did anything. I mean, I had 100% of my usual reaction…wherever there’s hair - I get a puffy spot for a day or so. It looks disgusting but I know there will be results. It was as if I never even had any hair removal 3 weeks ago… it all reacted like it always did. (I took a pic but it’s gross so I’ll post it if you want to see but… it just looks like some kind of skin disorder w/ all the puffy spots)
I told my laser tech about the issue mentioned here that hair can be stimulated on men and she said she hasn’t seen it in 10+ yrs…with the right settings. She says she turns away women with darker skin for this reason, and also that my epilight could have stimulated the hair growth before I even came to her but she doesn’t know for sure. She said she’d do my shoulders at $70/hr and can usually get a decent amount done each session (she uses the multi-something method) but she just said it’s tedious and really something I’d have to think about - if I want to sit through all that.
She told me her spot size / energy and now I think I forgot. She has the newest GentleLase that was apparently 150k or something…they upgraded last year sometime bc the new machine is more modern looking & also stronger. She said she has changed spot sizes over the years as the hair has become finer (using a smaller spot size as this happened - and then going to a medium size as there was a mix of fine and coarse)…she knew all about the “cone shape” issue. With energy, I think she said the max was 30 but since Im going away in 2 weeks and once had a few brown spots on the tan-line border on my mid-arm with 30 one time, she only wanted to use 26 or today. The spot size - I think - was 16 or 18…if that sounds right. I should’ve just written it down when she said it but I figured i’d remember naturally…