My Laser Journey - Starting 2010

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#41

Shedding doesn’t necessarily mean that the hair was killed for good. It takes a certain amount of heat to disable the follicle permanently. So yes, it’s best to treat at highest setting your skin can handle without burning, not matter what laser they use.

If they switch to a Yag, they would need to be aggressive with settings on it as well. I don’t know if they’re treating you at a low settings because they’re conservative on settings on general, or because they don’t know any better.

You can ask them to test spot higher settings on LightSheer to see how high you can go. If you can’t handle 25J, Yag would be better. But then the settings on the Yag need to be good too. So it’d be best if they tested for how high they can go on that as well.

#42

Thank you LAgirl for you post.

If I can’t handle 25J on Lightsheer, what’s the lowest or highest that I should go for on YAG that I may be able to bear? What I mean is, what is too low to say yes to YAG for it to not be worth it coz it won’t hit the follicle?

Stoppit has better experience with this so hopefully she can come in to this here.

#43

It’s impossible to give settings over the internet. You need a clinic that is experienced and can judge based on your skin type how high they can go, or test if they can’t tell exactly what they should use. The best advice I can give you is to ask them to test at various settings.

#44

LAgirl mentioned in another thread that the Lightsheer is used for 'in between’skin types. Yours seems fairer than mine, so you may well be a III-IV and it may well work for you.

Everyone knows that my treatments have been very effective. You can read my thread for settings used. They do however start off more conservatively and are pushed up with each subsequent treatment. They might be aiming to do this with the Lightsheer too. You have reacted okay to the test patch settings so they may well go a bit higher for your first treatment and so on.

My test patch for my forearm was high and I still have very faint pigmentation from the burn. So I would say it’s better to test patch a little low than too high.

#45

Oh yea I remember that. I hope it goes away soon. I’m not sure what to do now: should I go for a test patch with YAG or start with Lighsheer on legs or?

#46

If you want to be certain about settings, you should wait it out for 2-3 months.

Otherwise it’s your call. At the end of the day, you have to trust the clinic and that they will provide good treatment. I didn’t interfere with their settings at any stage and fortunately got very good results. No one can really say ‘that’s too low’ or ‘that’s too high’ unless they have seen your skin and hair and are experienced with that Laser.

You could ask for another test patch, on the legs only with higher Lightsheer settings. Just to make sure (1) that you can handle the pain (2) It doesn’t burn you. If that goes fine, you can think about starting treatments at that setting.

#47

Thank you stoppit. Did you wait 2-3 months after your test patch?

#48

I don’t think it’s necessary to wait 2-3 months. You won’t really be able to tell much at that point since you will see hair in the next phase of growth by then.

#49

I want to get underarms, bikini, legs and arms done by laser. Legs and arms I’m not too sure they’ll get good results. instead of purchasing a package I am thinking of going off-peak (as I am free then) and just buying them as one appointment at a time, and not 3 leg treatments etc. What is ideal then? Should I start with one thing or is it okay to go ahead with all areas?

#50

I would start with a small area like underarms and see how things go. If everything is good after a couple treatments, you can add other areas and buy packages.

Lower legs usually get good results.

#51

Well it depends on body area. If peace responds anything like you or I, LAgirl, then she should see a reduction on her legs after just 1 treatment.

#52

I was responding to her comment that she didn’t expect good results on legs.

#53

Oh sorry, I mean in regards to waiting 2-3 months.

I mean she could start on underarms and in that time see how the leg test patch responds. She should she some reduction there after even just 1 treatment if the settings are good.

Peace - I did not wait. I started with underarms anyway (as you know if you read my thread). I achieved complete shedding from the test patch so start treatments. When the underarms were responding well, I started bikini, then legs, now arms.

#54

Yea, my underarms have responded well, they have fallen out without 3 weeks being completed, I mean they’ve gone ages ago apart from a few and the area does look really smooth. When I look at my arm, even though the results aren’t near the same, I can see I have lighter skin (where the hair was) so it does look funny close up, lol. I think I will go for my first treatment for full underarms next week - I’ll stick with the Lighsheer and ask for higher settings, right? Or go have a testpatch with higher settings, see how my skin responds. Then book?

#55

You can go in for treatment and ask them to try higher settings. They can do one shot and see how your skin reacts, etc.

#56

Thank you! I think I’ll book in for next week then. Stoppit do you know if here is any online price list? They said they were going to send me one but must have forgotten.

#57

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#58

Thank you. I might as well get underarms + bikini done again off peak, will get 10% off and those areas will work best anyway.

#59

Actually, they offer underarm + bikini as a single treatment for £107 off peak too, rather than buying then separately and getting 10% off for having 2 treatments.

#60

Their prices are too confusing, it doesn’t state that on the leaflet does it?