As we have said in many other places on the site. Leg hair will disappear over time as you age even if you do nothing to them just because you circulation reduces as you age. The follicles are so shallow that tiling off enough skin while shaving can give you permanent hair removal on legs. Burning yourself while waxing can give you permanent hair removal on legs. Anything that would remove that layer of skin and or replace it with scar tissue would give one permanent hair removal on legs and eyebrows.
Faces, on the other hand, are a very different story. The follicles are very deep, and very strong, and both Arlene and I have worked with many people who have had minimal results (it all grew back, it just lost pigment and turned white or clear). In those cases, the money spent on LASER would have been better spent on a good and fast electrologist. I have also had it happen that I have post-LASER clients who have had reduction on the face, but they are also in a place where they may have saved time in the chair, but not money, and most reported some negative treatment result during the treatments… all that and they still needed an electrologist to finish the job.
I recently had a client who I would call the best LASER face that I had seen. I don’t know how much hair this person had previously, but the reduction in thickness, and the change in colors rendered the cheeks very presentable. There was some burning on the chin, and lots of hair left around the mouth. Now the funny thing is, what people call successful LASER never seems to live up to what they consider successful electrolysis. This person who called the LASER work a success, was now having me clear out the places around the mouth where LASER obviously had not done the job, but then started having me nit pick the cheeks where one could argue that LASER had actually done what it promised, “Permanent, or Long-Term Hair Reduction”
We just shake our heads at the different measuring stick people use for the two procedures.
