BEAN, you seen to have a misguided sense of frustration. Just to get this out of the way, please by all means go with an IPL! And please report your results here. We love to hear success and failure stories as we learn from all. We’re not trying to convince you to switch. Go with whatever you feel is good for you.
Now, from what I understand, you have only had 1 treatment so far. I have had many areas completely finished with both laser and electrolysis with 95% + reduction on all areas I had treated (it’s been over 1.5-2 years on most). I’ve tried several practitioners and machines. I follow the industry trends, news, convention discussions, etc. If you’ve noticed, after I have gotten results, I’ve personally stuck around to help numerous people get results on these forums for the past several years, including those people who came here after having had ineffective treatments.
Once again, we’re here to help provide unbiased information on what the BEST way to get results is (This doesn’t mean IPLs don’t work. It simply means that all things being equal, true lasers work better and produce results faster). If you don’t feel our advice is accurate, by all means do whatever you want. We don’t get anything out of it either way. However, you really have no experience, and especially no personal experience, to propose that IPL is better as you haven’t had any results yet to speak of. No offense, but you are new to the whole thing and don’t seem to know many well-known facts in the industry that are consistently discussed here by professionals, i.e. information not gathered from the marketing hype you are reading (look up posts by SSLHR, an MD who owns a number of successful clinics in Texas and has been in the business since the beginning and has had the opportunity to try many machines that constantly hit the market; or Chris, the owner of Romeo & Juliet in NYC, or Choice, etc).
Also, I hope you realize that being a dermatologist means nothing in terms of hair removal because it’s not something that’s taught at any med schools. To become an expert in the field, everyone needs to go through the same training and then do treatments daily for years. If your doctor actually has 10 years of experience in laser hair removal specifically (Not 30 as that’s not possible. It hasn’t been around that long.), then it will be great for you and I wish you luck. I hope he’s been performing hair removal treatments specifically on numerous clients daily for the past 10 years. 10 years of just being a dermatologist doesn’t mean anything in hair removal as the best professionals in this industry (the ones who customers rave about on these forums) all learn from performing treatments daily. If he’s doing other dermatology work at the same time, he can’t be devoting that much time to hair removal.
Btw, those who are truly in on the industry all know what machines are best. If this doctor is as educated on the industry as you claim, he also knows that there are better machines out there because it’s constantly discussed at conventions, publications, etc. The Ruby laser was a good laser type btw. The reason it was phased out is because it was only safe on very very pale skin, i.e. there was a need for other machines to cater to everyone else and to make money. Either way, it sounds like you’re convinced of his expertise simply based on what he wrote on his website and what his clinic told you. And it seems hard to make you realize that that’s what is involved in attracting customers. If you get amazing results, I can see how you can claim this (Better yet, get IPL treatments on one side and true laser on another with practitioners with similar level of expertise). I hope you realize that right now, you’re just going on faith. I’m curious if you’ve even read any unbiased reviews of his clinic or spoke to any past customers of his.
Either way, I wish you luck with your treatments.
