Wow, you are amazing, LAgirl. I swear I googled and googled and only found IPL! So embarrassing you found these when you are not even Danish!
I am afraid it’s too late with the test spot. Didn’t get any at the consultation and today I had my first treatment done. Here’s how it went:
I never ever ever EVER in my life have experienced anything as painful as this. I realize now when people write about how painful it is, it is no kidding! I will write more about that later.
So yesterday I shaved my personal area as I did not feel like waking up at 5am to get that done. Yes, it’s that bad. For the people that love too much information: I cut myself in the butt and had to ask my sister to help me shave in the behind. Oh dear, haha.
Today I woke up and shaved legs and armpits. Went to shower and then went off to Nygart. I was extremely nervous in the waiting room… I did not feel like spreading legs to a stranger, but on the other hand, I’ve wanted this for like forever.
So Miss H came and took me into the room. She suggested we did the legs first, so I got a feeling of how the machine was. I agreed, hell, she probably knows best what to do first with newbies.
Gel was smudged over my legs and the IPL was ready. I asked what “level” it was on, the answer was 16 to test for a start. The IPL zapped/lit up on my skin and wooosh, it hurt quite a bit but my pain threshold is high so I could stand it. Which I informed Miss H of. After she lit me, she asked if I could feel any burning, which I could not so she turned the IPL up to 17. I think it’s 17J/cm2. The pain was stronger, no doubt.
She exclaimed, that she could actually hear my hair crackle for each zap = good, and that the red bumps I got right after = good.
Minimum on the machine is 8 and maximum 20. I have a hard time imagining I could go any higher up on the scale.
It felt like very hot and very sharp and very many needles going into my skin at the same time. (I take it’s the heat through all my hair down to the roots I could feel…)
On my legs where my hair was thickest and most dense it obviously hurt the most (at my angles). At the back of my leg on the muscles where my hair is light and thin and not dense I could barely feel a thing. The IPL will not have any effect there - not something I mind I like light, thin hairs.
Miss H also noticed I had hairy feet so to my happy surprise she did the little area there too. Very nice but as the hair was very thin and the pain close to non-existent, she thought the effect would be small.
Next up was armpits. A lot of pain!!! Thankfully, the area is very small so there was not that many painful ‘zaps’. Furthermore, the machine got turned down to 16J/cm2 due to the density of the hair.
Out of curiosity I asked her how far the light would reach down in the skin (because I think my hairs go very deep, haha). It reaches down 1cm approximately.
Now to the really bad part I’ve been trying to postpone. It blackens for my eyes just thinking how painful it actually was… So. I have super thick hairs with high density in that area. They are the blackest of the blackest. The IPL light absolutely loved them. But the pain. Whaahh, shivers down my spine.
… My body. It uncontrollably gibbed big time for each zap. I was scared I was gonna knee Miss H in the face!! I bit myself in the tongue!!
I forgot to breathe and got so dizzy. I had to ask for a break and she got me some water. We had about 4 breaks total because the pain was unbearable. The feeling of hot needles. Far far into my skin! Ughh. In the triangle area it was very very bad. Labia, puuuhhh, baadddd!!! Inside them where there is little hair growth…- can’t even talk about it. My body literally jumped. My bumhole, yeah bad, and it burned for about 30 minutes after. Tears sprinkled from my eyes without actually wanting them to or feeling like crying.
Machine was on 13J/cm2 in this area.
It effing hurt so much.
I think my body was in a minor shock due to the pain levels I had been in, because I biked the wrong way to school. I was a goner the next hour, haha.
I just came home from school and my sister and I was excited to see how my skin looks now (specially private area). It’s pinkish due to a lot of red dots. I don’t care really, it’s how my skin down there normally would react a few days after a shave, so no big difference in my life anyway, haha. Actually my hairs already pop a bit out of my skin, so for the fun of it I tried to pull one out with my nails. It just slided out! Went on to my legs and got the same result. I can never pluck my hairs with my nails, so I guess this is a really good sign!??
And to answer LAgirl. I haven’t bought a “package” of a fixed number of treatments. I pay for each, and if I haven’t seen a bit hair reduction in 3 months time, I am not coming to Nygart again. So I am not committed, however I have spend the first amount of money there. 2900DKK (~455USD). If this doesn’t work, I’m so happy you’ve found these other options :))
I know it takes time to see results, for the next few weeks I will be more or less hairless and then the regrowth kicks in. I will update again around Christmas or when I remember if I forgot something!
Any questions, any observations - feel free to share :))
Please, take care of yourselves, everyone! x
