After thinking about it for years I went for the initial laser session on my chin area today. I have coarse dark hair which I didn’t shave for a couple of days before hand so there was alot of stubble. The session lasted about five minutes or so and I felt a few pin pricks but only a couple hurt. When I got home and had a look all of the coarse stubble is still there. Shouldn’t it have disappeared? Or at least some of it? I know that there is an element of shedding but should the area really look exactly the same immediately afterwards?!
Are you male or female? What type of laser was used? How much hair do you have? Feeling a few pin prick sensations suggests that maybe the power was not high enough. The area takes 2.5 to 3.5 weeks to shed, but you may have some hair “pop” out as you are having treatment.
Hope this works for you. Keep in mind that you will probabaly need a electrologist to get hairs that are not coarse and dark. If you had started the chin with electrolysis, you would have had the hairs treated and removed and would have walked out of the office not having to wait for shedding to occur.
Hi there. I’m female. I did feel two hairs frazzle and smelt some burning but apart from that just the pin prick sensation. I was told that the power used was the recommended level as suggested by the test patch that they did a couple of weeks before. I’ve never let all the hair grow on my chin before (always tweezered it out) so my fast growing black stubble seems quite shocking. There’s alot! Have been told that I’m an ideal candidate - very pale and unsuntanned! Perhaps I was expecting too much at once but I just didn’t expect the area to look exactly the same. Does this mean that I have to walk around with my fast growing beard until the shedding occurs? It even looks longer than yesterday. I grow hair very fast! I won’t want to leave the house!!
I won’t discuss the LASER side of your situation, but for a long time tweezer like yourself, I would have done electrolysis on you where we picked a start date that was 3 days to a week after you stopped plucking, and then cleared your face out. I would then see you again in 3 to 4 days and reclear the area, and we would then see each other every 3 to 5 days over the first 6 weeks as all your previously plucked hairs start to surface.
For your purposes, it would be as visually effective as the plucking had been (you would have no hair in the follicles, and better yet, no broken off hairs in the follicles either) and you would be gaining ground on the future of hair free, care free skin.
Life long female pluckers can gain a face full of hair that, when left to its own devices, will become as plentiful as a male beard. Since a previous HairTell member has pointed out how I removed 10,000 hairs from his beard in 13 hours spread out over 24 hours, you can understand why I am so confident about being able to clear this out easily IF I GET CLIENT CO-OPERATION.
You don’t have to walk around with long hair growing on your chin. Shaving will disguise the hair until or IF laser works.
These kinds of posts drive me crazy because you are getting laser, on your face of all places, and you are still seeing the hair when you walk out of the office. If a professional, modern electrologist got hold of you, it would be as James said and you wouldn’t have the freaking hair still showing on your face as you wait (and hope) for it to shed. The enemy (hair) is removed after it is destroyed by electrolysis and you look so much better immediately.
Yes, “pluckers” need closer appointments up front as those tweezed hairs start to come to the surface in wave after wave over the next several weeks, but within weeks, we catch up with the returning hairs and the scale tips the other way. It is then that you and your electrologist gain the upper hand. Another thing that drives me crazy is, for a woman’s chin, even if you get laser, you are still back to needing an electrologist anyway because laser is not meant to get every hair with the refinement that an electrologist can attend to no matter what anyone says. I see this same story week after week from clients who have gone down this yellow brick road only to find that they need more than laser can deliver to a woman’s face.
If you are not lucky enough to live where there is a skilled, modern electrolgist, then you will have to settle for second best.
Dee
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you should have given it 4-6 weeks at minimum before having the treatment. at this point, you only affected a small amount of hair since you just plucked a few days before
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what machine and settings were used? sounds like they were too low
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what it looks like afterwards depends on how your skin handles the treatments, machine, and settings used. if you don’t want the stubble on your face, you may want to consider electrolysis like James said. With laser, you always have to wait for shedding which some don’t like to do on their face.