Is waxing in between sessions detrimental?

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#1

Please read this all before answering.

I know that you can’t wax between sessions, that’s not what I mean. I’m talking about if I know I’m not going for another session for 3 or 4 months.

Here’s my situation, I’ve done 3 sessions on my forearms with great results as shown in my other post. The hair is average, not super coarse but not super fine either. I’m concerned though because after my 2nd session, 8 or 9 weeks later, the hair was very sparse, only the odd one here and there until I let it grow back to go again.

It’s now exactly 7 weeks since my last session on my forearms, and not sure what to think. The tops of my arms are still pretty smooth with just the odd hair, same with my hands. But the underside of them have pretty even fine hair all over the place which has be concerned. It only started coming back a week or so ago, so usually it gets coarser, but I’m concerned why its so even and why there’s so much.

The way it is right now might be pushing it for coarseness, as it’s definitely not as coarse as say underarm hair, at least at the moment. Now I know I’ve also only gone for 3 sessions so I can’t really compare the results or judge effectiveness yet but it’s really bumming me out!

I’m going on vacation in a bit, and there’s definitely not enough hair here to treat yet, and I don’t think there will be until at least week 10, which is right when I get back from being in the sun for a week. I’m not sure if I should wait and then go for another session and pay another $100 for them or if I should wait a bit.

Back to my waxing question. Having smooth arms for my trip would be nice. I’m just wondering if the hair on my arms is maybe in different cycles, since last time it took forever to come back and was so fine and this time it came back faster and seems almost like there’s more. (Not more as in more than when I started, just maybe the same amount as last time).

I’m wondering if I wax my arms to put all the hairs in sync if that would be okay. Just not sure if it’s okay to do that after doing laser, as I don’t want the hair to grow back stronger, or to have more hairs grow back, so not sure what I should do. The other thing is, when I do a session 2 weeks later it’s all shed, and then I have smooth arms for 6 weeks or so, so that’s the other reason I’m contemplating doing more, just not sure what to do!!!

#2

Your hair is just getting synchronized and I wouldn’t recommend waxing which would throw it off. That’s why spacing is important. That said, 12 weeks is fine to wait between treatments on this area. So just get a treatment 2 weeks after you get back and use sunblock on the trip.

#3

I would just wait. Once the hair grows back in you’ve got a window of opportunity to treat it so you should definitely be able to get treatment a few weeks after you get back.

Or, you’ve been doing some galvanic on yourself if I recall one of your PMs, right? You could just treat some of the early arm hairs with that if you want the hairs treated but are sure you’ll have had too much sun for a laser treatment. Arms are pretty easy.

#4

Yeah I’ll just wait. Definitely not doing galvanic on myself, the OneTouch is a pain in the you know what haha. It works but it hurts so bad even on 3, might just be my unit, bought it off eBay since couldn’t find it anywhere here in Canada and the one they sent me was from 1983 it said!!! I know not much has changed but I find it huts a lot. Either way though there’s way too many hairs to do it myself, on the underside I counted 27 in a square inch with the top side being maybe 3-5. Just not sure if I’m being too paranoid since it’s only been 3 sessions. I think my concern is mostly just that so far at least, the way my arms look 7 weeks after my 3rd treatment almost seem to look the way they did at the same time after my 2nd treatment so just not sure if the hair there is getting too fine to treat. On the tops of my hands they’re smooth aside from maybe 3 or 4 dark coarse hairs just in random places which is what it looked like before. The hairs I’m talking about on the underside of my arm are all even.

I don’t mind if I have to switch to electrolysis but my biggest thing is just don’t want to keep doing laser if it’s not going to give me any results here. I’ll see though, will wait until I get back and go from there!

#5

Was just thinking too, between session 2 and 3 it was only 9 weeks. I remember thinking the hair was finer and wasn’t sure if it was all fully grown back yet, as from my pictures in my other post you can see they were just sporadic all over. Maybe 9 weeks was too soon to go back for another treatment, so the reason it seems like there’s more this time at week 7 is because not all hair was fully back last time at week 9. I’ll compare at week 9 see how it looks and judge by that.

#6

La partie distale du bras a encore 2 poils par groupe? Oups! c’est peut-être temps de changer le concept “probablement”, par une autre, “assurance”? et d’appeler l’aventure une fin heureuse?

#7

Not sure what you mean by 2 hairs per group. I haven’t had much change in the growth in a week, and when I was looking at my arm today you can barely see the hair, I think it was in my office the bright lights seemed to really make it stand out. Put it this way, if this was the final result, then the results are amazing, but I’ve only had 3 sessions so I think I just need to keep at it!

#8

In all humans, the follicles are implanted in the skin of this form:

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and not so:

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Each hair has its own independent follicle of those in his side.
Generally the size of each hair of the group is different. The center is usually much thicker than the adjacent.
In people who develop a fine hair, the secondary or tertiary is not visible unless you use a special light source or an amplification system of the skin.
That’s why many people believe in the second provision erroneous.

Dans tous les humains, les follicules sont implantés dans la peau de ce formulaire:

… … … …

pas le cas:
. . . . . . .

Chaque poil a son propre follicule indépendant de celui de son côté.
En général, la taille de chaque poil dans le groupe est différente. Le poil du centre est habituellement beaucoup plus épais que les du côté.
Chez les personnes qui développent un poil fin, le secondaire ou tertiaire n´est pas visible, sauf si vous utilisez une source de lumière spéciaux ou un système d’amplification de la peau.

C’est pourquoi beaucoup de gens croient dans la deuxième disposition erronée.

#9

Okay… I’m just curious do you use Google translator to translate into English? Please take no offense, but what you just wrote barely makes any sense in English and uses huge words with incorrect grammar which seems odd that someone would know such big words but not how to put them together. Like “That’s why many people believe in the second provision erroneous.” makes absolutely no sense at all! I’m so confused lol.

#10

Mon cher ami,

Une des premières recommandations que les experts donnent pour l’apprentissage d’une langue différente de la langue materne, est d’éviter la peur du ridicule. Les Espagnols en général nous avons une tendance à sentir beaucoup de peur du ridicule. Doit être pour cette raison que la majorité ne veut pas passer à l’étape d’apprendre la langue anglaise ou autre.
Comme vous pouvez le voir, je m´ai jeté dans la piscine du ridicule avec toutes les conséquences. Je ne sais pas si c’est trop tard pour éviter la noyade. Si mon écriture ne sert pas à fournir des informations, au moins elle sert por vous faire rire. :wink:

#11

I’ll reply in English my French is not as good :slight_smile: I absolutely agree though, you have to just go for it and not care what people think. I just find usually when someone isn’t a native speaker they use smaller words or what not but a lot of times yours has big words that most English speakers wouldn’t necessarily use unless writing a professional document or something. So just thought it sounded like you wrote everything in Google translator. I was just asking because I was going to say if you use Google not to! That it’s much better to try and write everything out on your own since you get nothing from a translator. Sites like these are great because you can really quickly improve your language. :slight_smile:

#12

Honestly, I depend a lot of that evil system google translator. But tell me, you understand something of the position of follicles in the skin?