All the home lasers that I know of are diodes for some reason.
The issue is that machines for home use have much lower settings. They donāt allow home machines to have very high settings due to potential damage they can cause.
iām interested in this, been looking at the tria website - and it looks impressive
of course it would be a very low setting so would take a long time for results but since i have just sparser or finer areas left over from laser
(have had legs, arms, bikini, underarms, face, abdomen)
and just want to reduce the finer hairs that didnāt respond - abdomen, upper thighs, face, upper arms)
If a more powerful laser didnāt affect these hairs, this thing will definitely not do it either. You need electrolysis.
After seeing that the Tria wouldnāt be available at their website until fall, I decided to get one from England. I tried it today on my bikini line(not the whole thing) and my armpits. On my bikini line, it felt like a rubber band snap and my armpits felt like a mild zap. The skin around the hair folicles is pink, now.
This was much less painful than my experience with a pro. When I went to the pro, I only had shedding in the burned areas which was about a third of my legs. It may not cause permanent damage, but if it gives results similar to waxing without the ingrown hairs, then Iāll consider this money well spent.
Iāll report back in a couple of weeks.
How much did you spend for this Tria if you donāt mind saying so?? It will be great if you can disable the follicles for a certain period of time. Thanks for your report. It is so much more helpful to hear an actual report from someone who has tried something like this rather than debating back and forth as to whether the Tria is useful for hair control. Weāll be thinking about you melissa, so come back in a couple of weeks! Thanks!
I paid $1200. In case anyoneās interested, I got it from www.winhealth.co.uk
It only took a week to get here which is the fastest Iāve ever gotten anything from across the pond. I got the outlet adapter from Amazon but I probably couldāve gotten that locally. I have a multi-regional dvd player, so Iām not sure if the dvd would work in a North American dvd player. Itās basically the same info as in the manual.
Since region codes are a scheme to make sure that both the release dates, and price structures of different areas are protected, I doubt an instruction manual would use a region code. The DVD is probably region free.
What region coding allows for is the theatrical release of a film in one country, of a movie that is already on DVD shelves in another, then later, it keeps people from buying ligitimate DVDās from one country at the closeout prices, while another country is still selling the same DVD in the āNew Releasesā section for top dollar. After all, anyone who knows anyone in South East Asia can get most movies for $5 or less.
Right, and as long as itās ntsc and not pal then people in North America can watch it.
Actually, many american DVDās will play a PAL DVD as well, but one may have some jumps in the picture here and there. Others wonāt play them at all.
The funny thing is, the older and the cheaper your DVD player, the MORE likely it will be to play a PAL in the US 
Can you tell an untechnie what a PAL is?
Humbly,
Dee
Pal Secam is the European DVD system.
Appreciate that.
Itās been a week since I tried Tria and so far I have bald spots on my bikini line and no obvious change to my armpits. I didnāt overlap like the instructions said, so I probably would have gotten better results on my bikini line.
Thanks to my deodorant, I have dry flakey skin on my armpits, so that could be why it doesnāt appear to have worked there. Iām going to go without deodorant for a week and try it again. Pity the people within 10 feet of me.
Eagerly waiting for answer 
I need this, please make it work 
Itās been a couple of weeks since I used Tria on my bikini line and it looks like itās about 75% bald in the area that got treated. Considering that I didnāt overlap, thatās pretty good.
I lasered my lower legs about a week ago and Iāve got some bald spots, some pepper spots, and some areas that appear to still be growing. Since my bikini line had a fair amount of hair that continued to grow but is now gone, Iām hopeful.
I tried lasering my underarms again Monday, and today I see some bald spots. Iām pretty relieved because this is the area I most wanted Tria to work on. I was using Adidas cottonTech+ for women which made my armpits super dry and flakey. Iām pretty sure thatās why Tria didnāt work on me the first time.
After reading some things here, Iām pretty sure my one experience with a laser pro wasnāt right, so I canāt say how Tria compares to a professional machine. So far, it appears to be doing its job, but I have a feeling that a good pro would be more efficient.
What kind of skin type do you have Melissa? Does this machine work for skin type 3? They say light skin to avoid being sued, but if it is a diode I wonder if one can try on using it on skin type 3 (at least in ares where you donāt mind risking some pigment change).
Melissa is there way to talk to you through IM or mail (just to keep a conversation) I am really interested in tria, and if you say it has been 2 weeks since your treatment and you are still 75% bald, well that is REALLY awesome.
I donāt mind if it is not permanent, as long as it takes more then 3 weeks to grow back.
I tried waxing. IT grew back after 1 week.
I am pretty hairy though.
You can PM me, if you want. Itās taking a few weeks for the hair to fall out so, Iāve been shaving every few days. I think Tria has a bit of a learning curve, so Iāll probably be more enthusiastic about it in a few months. Overlaping takes some patience but then so does driving in rush hour traffic then waiting for 45 minutes in a lobby. If you have a lot of areas to treat, then I think Triaās worth trying.
Hi all,
Mind if I butt in?
I have also just bought a Tria and used it for the first time yesterday.
Like another poster here mentioned, Im not looking for a permanent solution but if Tria keeps my āproblemā away for at least a month before I have to use it again I would be happy.
I have always been pretty hairy, especially on my legs, although since having my two children, the hair on my legs started to fall out and now my legs are what I consider to be ānormalā hairy legs. However the area on either side of my chin bone went the opposite way during my pregnancies and thick black hairs sprouted there which I have to attend to everyday.
I was at the end of my tether so I bought the Tria mostly to deal with that area. With two small children in tow, I just dont have time to go to a laser hair removal salon, and after trying EVERYTHING else on the market, this is my last resort.
I will also report back after a month and tell you all if I see any improvement.
As long as Tria either keeps the hairs at bay for a month at least, or if the hair come back lighter and finer, I will be satisfied.
Fingers crossed!