I recently moved to New Jersey from California. I have had many laser hair removal
sessions (mostly on my face) and had 3 different lasers used on me. The lightsheer
was the first laser and I went for 8 treatments at Dr. Narurkars office in San
Francisco. I had very good results on the areas that he worked but I felt that he
had me come in too frequently (usually 3-4 weeks rather than 6-10 weeks) and he was
also very distracted and somewhat careless during our sessions not covering the
whole area. I actually have quite a bit to say about my sessions with him but that
wasn’t the point of this post. I ended up having about a 90% reduction on my chin,
100% on my sideburns and maybe 50% on my upper lip.
A couple of years later I decided to try again, I wanted to see if I could get 100%
reduction on my chin and finish off the upper lip. At this point I moved to San
Jose from San Francisco and I found a local place, I can’t remember what they were
called, Some Medspa. For my first visit they used a Yag laser on me since I am
Mediterranean but fair skinned. I tan well instead of burning and she wanted to be
cautious even though I told her that I had it done before. For the second session I
am not sure what they used, I don’t think it was a diode but that’s possible. I can
say that both lasers used at the medspa hurt a lot less than the lightsheer
sessions. It may, however, be due to the anesthetic that they used. For the
lightsheer sessions I used my own emla cream. For these I used my own cream and
then they slathered on their stuff which is a blend.
The Yag laser hurt the least. I didn’t feel a thing with it but I had shedding, I
am just not sure how effective it was.
During the medspa laser treatments the lady decided to go over my cheeks, which had
very fine, peachfuzzy hairs. A few months later some of these hairs grew back to be
coarse, black nasty hairs. Also my hormones have been out of control and I am
having new growth of coarse black hairs on my face. It’s quite problematic. My
hormones are back under control for the most part but I have to deal with the new
growth.
Of course… of all places in the country I move to, I end up in NJ, the freak
state that won’t allow anyone but a physician to perform laser hair removal for me.
And on top of that they charge an arm and a leg! If only my insurance covered it!
lol So I suppose I will end up taking a train into NYC (about 15 miles away) and
get it taken care of there. Unfortunately there are so many laser hair removal
places in Manhattan it’s difficult to find out any information without a
consultation and unfortunately, since I don’t live in manhattan, it isnt easy for
me to take a day off all the time to go from place to place for hair removal
consultations. Yelp in CA was fantastic. There were reviews for everything!
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good laser hair removal place in Bergen County, NJ or Manhattan?
If you don’t want to respond here you can also pm me.
Thanks!
