Hello guys. I’m a male, in my early 20s and living in London. I signed up for a 6 session course for full back and shoulders at a clinic in London, and had my first session last week.
Before signing on for the treatment, I didn’t really know too much about laser treatments and naively placed a lot of trust on the clinic and the therapists. I found this forum literally a couple of days before my first scheduled session and I’ve been reading up on the different reviews and accounts since. Also read about the many different lasers and their effectiveness on different skin types. I feel a bit ridiculous now to be honest, and a bit worried about wasting my money or even making my hair problem worse.
Anyway, the therapists themselves have been great, answered my questions and have been helpful. The one that I had the session with told me my skin type was type 2-3. I’m Middle Eastern with fair skin and black coarse hair. He used a Plasmalite machine on ‘level 20’ (I’m guessing joules after reading up on here). Apparently we will be using higher setting as I have more sessions.
It’s been just over a week after the first session and I’m seeing my first hairs fall out. I’ve also got a lot of red spots on the areas that had most hair, something which I was expecting as I also had them pretty badly after waxing.
So I’m just a little lost at the moment and need a bit of advice on what to do from here. I’ve got 5 more session booked but haven’t paid the rest of my installments. Is the Plasmalite machine effective in my case? Or would I be making things worse? Which is my biggest concern. I’ve also done some reading on electrolysis now and wish I had considered it before, would that be a better option altogether?
I’ve uploaded some before pictures of my back and shoulders, I took them a few days before my treatment for my own reference -
This forum is an amazing place, just wish I’d stumbled on here sooner. Thank you for your time.