Yep I’ve had great results on my face but I’ve learned some things that might help others, as I’m not finished yet just took a break for summer. I’m about a skin type 3 so I always get treated with an alexandrite laser for other areas. My first several facial treatments (upper lip, neck, cheeks, chin, and also my sideburns on the side to make them very thin) were with an alex as well. The hair on my neck and cheeks would all shed, but on my upper lip and chin I’d have barely any shedding at all. I’d have to go back a few weeks later and have the area redone. Even after this, I’d still only get maybe 50% shedding total on my chin and upper lip if that. I have pictures when I went to Mexico and on my chin there’s about half of it that’s dark even after I shaved since that hair never shed.
At my next session, my technician used the ND:Yag on me and didn’t tell me until we were done. I was disappointed as I alwas thought alex was a better laser. After reading on here though I found out that ND:Yag can go the deepest of any laser, and works best on very dark coarse hair which is pretty much all a males face is. To my surprise, 2 weeks later, all the hair fell out, all my upper lip, chin everything.
Now the thing is, you can see from my signature, I’ve pretty much had 3 sessions with alex (plus 1 extra with alex on my upper lip and chin to try and get it to shed) and then I had 3 sessions with Yag. I haven’t done laser on my face now for close to 3 months as I wanted to enjoy the sun this summer. There’s a clear difference on my face. My neck hardly has any hair. Before shaving around my adam’s apple was hard and always left stubble, now its smooth when I shave. My cheeks are similar as well, I’d say there’s been a 50% reduction on both those areas and on my sideburns they are still only about 1/3rd as wide as they used to be. However, my upper lip and chin look unchanged, maybe a 10% reduction or so on my chin. After 3 sessions with yag I’d have hoped for a bit better results in that area but I think it’s just becaues they’ve had less treatments.
I also need to check my log, because when I first started, I’d get treated with the alexandrite, but then 4 weeks later only about 50% of the hair had shed, so I’d go back, do the whole area again, and then I’d get almost complete shedding (except for the upper lip chin area). Didn’t matter what settings were used, it always seemed like with the face, you have to do two session to get it all removed. So because of that, when I say I’ve done 6 sessions in total, I really only consider it more like 3, same with the 3 done with yag, I consider it more like 1 or 2 only.
I know people will argue that if you need to treat an area twice to get 100% shedding then the settings aren’t high enough, but I disagree for the face. I’ve treated underarms, full chest, forearms, etc all with the same settings and they’d have 100% shedding with 1 session. Face is definitely much harder to treat so either find someone with experience, or just take a chance.
One thing to note, if you find a place that has a good price and seems reputable and you do a treatment, if they do a patchy job on you, you won’t have any real permanent results from that one session. My first session I was so patchy, it was at another clinic so I switched. When the hair grows back you wouldn’t even know.
