Hello everybody for reading this and thank you if you for the good advice I may recieve!
My name is Peter, I live in Greenboro North Carolina. I decided over the summer that I’d like to get my leg hair reduced. I am aware that a natural looking result is hard to achieve, but I was told that it was achievable. At the moment Ive had one treatment. The regrowth right now a little patchy on some parts of my lower legs, but overall it is coming back quite the same as if I had just shaved them. I am very worried about the next treatment. The practicioner has never attempted a leg hair reduction before! What technique could she implement to avoid patchy regrowth? Is there even a technique to be implemented, or am I just rolling the dice here?? For instance, might she skip over the parts of my lower legs that are already bare? I’m quite distressed about this, does anybody know what to do?
what laser are you using? what color is the hair? what color is the skin? how coarse is the hair? these all play a role.
how long has it been since your treatment? how much of the hair shed?
patchiness is avoidable if they overlap and don’t miss spots. you would be able to tell what was missed by seeing what hair grows as normal 3-4 weeks after treatment by when it should have fallen out.
the laser is gentle yag, the hair is black and coarse, my skin is pale. it has been 8 weeks since my treatment. What do you mean if they overlap and dont miss spots?
GentleYAG is best on coarse hair and darker skin. It will work on coarse hair on light skin as well, but not as good as GentleLASE or another alexandrite. Basically, Yags have a hard time with fine hair.
That’s exactly what I mean. They need to make sure to overlap when they’re zapping your area by at least 10% so that there are no missed spots. That way you will avoid patchiness. Patchiness happens when the laser operator missed a bunch of areas when treating.