how much can they be reduced?

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#21

You’re still treating facial hair on a woman that already got induced growth from treatments? That’s inconceivable to me. It doesn’t matter that it was with an IPL. As we already tried to explain to you, the concept of how the hair is killed is the SAME in both IPLs and true lasers. If her hair wasn’t coarse enough for IPL treatments, it’s not coarse enough for the Soprano. Period.

You’re wasting this poor woman’s time and money instead of doing the educated thing and telling her to seek electrolysis on this area. There is no “crossing fingers” that needs to be done with LHR. You need to go to conferences and educate yourself on it, i.e. how it works, what the side effects are, and why they come about. You’re not using the best machine out there (it’s ok, but there are better ones - and please don’t try to say otherwise since you can’t know any different at this point as you’ve only been using the machine for 6 months as you’ve told us) and you’re doing this woman a disservice.

Let’s hope she doesn’t come to this forum to complain in a few months after she’s given you several thousand dollars without seeing much of anything. How exactly are you judging this “big improvement”? You can’t tell for sure whether there is any differece until she stops treatments for at least 5-6 months. So far you’ve told us you treat clients every 4-6 weeks and they don’t see shedding. She may as well be shaving if that’s all she can tell at this point.

What happens if (or when) she stops and all hair returns, induced and otherwise? Do you plan to give her her money back?

Btw, this type of thinking by providers is why I stick around on this forum. I’m not sure what’s worse, calculated disservice or disservice under the assumption that one is helping (since the latter tends to take longer to recognize and thus wastes more time and money ont he part of the consumer).

#22

You missed almost everything i said, she has very coarse hair on her face, skin type 4 i would say.

I didn’t say people don’t see shedding, they do and plenty of it. I said that in some cases after IPL they may not see shedding, but the hair stops growing.

Unlike most places, we care about our clients, if something is wrong and after 8-10 treatments they aren’t done yet, according to the situation we may treat them for free, not to mention that our prices are already half what most of the people here are used to.

#23

If she has COARSE DENSE hair on her face, she shouldn’t have seen any induced growth. You only notice the induced growth when treating sparse coarse hair (i.e. growth is induced on the areas between these sparse coarse hairs) or when treating finer hair (which in terms becomes coarse and stimulates other hairs around it to grow too). Also, you may have a different definition of coarse than the industry. The only hair on a woman’s face, especially someone who’s a type IV, who you should treat is if she has beardlike dense growth similar to a man’s.

If your clients see shedding, they shouldn’t need treatments every 6 weeks on all areas. They shouldn’t have enough to treat at 6 weeks.