Hi I was wondering if you were to wax your area you want treated 2 weeks before your were planning to have laser hair removal and then let the hair start growing back so you have stubble coming in, and then you shave the day of the laser removal treatment, wouldn’t there be a better chance that all of your hair in this area would be in a growth phase and therefore you wouldn’t need 8 sessions to remove all of your hair? Am I mistaken about how the antigen phase works?
Personally, I don’t think you should need 8 sessions anyway if they are with aggressive settings and properly spaced.
Waxing before starting can reduce the number of treatments by probably just 1 treatment. Still worth doing in my opinion because I did not try to save money by going to a cheap clinic, rather one that was doing a good job, so this saved me money and time.
But you need to wait longer than 2 weeks. That’s only the beginning of a cycle coming through. You need to wait more like 6-12 weeks depending on the body area… basically when you don’t think any more hair growth is coming through. Then go for your first laser app.
I agree with all of stoppit’s comments. What area are you thinking about getting lased? For men’s backs, you might be realistically looking at 12 or more treatments.
My back upper and lower and shoulders
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bob - have you read through the forums? Men are advised not to Laser their upper backs and shoulders unless the hair is very coarse. Or only treat the patches where the hair is coarse. This is because, laser induced growth has been experienced by many posters treating this area. Even when the hair is coarse and that hair is eliminated, finer hairs can be induced for which Laser can do nothing.
Well, bob, stoppit and I are not laser experts, but we have been hanging around long enough to parrot back what we have read enough times here on hairtell about induced hair stimulation on men’s upper backs, shoulders and upper arms. That’s why I mentioned 12 or more treatments may be required. Laser specialists have told me this fact repeatedly, so you have to decide if you can deal with it if it happens to you.
Laser specialists will always tell you that you need more treatments.
I’m no expert but from my own experience and common sense, if everything is done properly, the client should not need more than one treatment per hair cycle. So you can be ‘done’ (as far as Laser can get you, in 3 treatments in some areas. Second treatments of the same cycle are sometimes needed. But they (the clinic) shouldn’t be cranking up settings as they go along; they should be using as high as possible right from the start.
No I have no read through the forum in many years but I do not want to grow new hair since my back is already fairly hairy. To be honest I had laser in 2002 on my chest with a NDYAG. It did nothing to reduce or eliminate my hair but it did completely eliminated acne from my chest which I was very prone to. I want to rid my back of acne as well and that’s why I wanted to have one treatment, however if there is a way I can actually get most of my hair in the growth phase, then I was hoping maybe it would have some permanent hair reduction. I assume it eliminated acne because it reduced my sebaceous glands which were over producing sebum. I spent $900 a treatment last time from a licensed company, and it yielded no results so I am very hesitant this time around.