Red circles from GentleLASE 3 days after treatment

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#1

Hey everyone,

So my best friend did laser finally after listening to me, and did most of his stomach with GentleLASE. When I do it, I get red for about 5 minutes then I look competely normal when I leave. I’m skin type 3 but pushing 4 depending on how much sun I get. If i don’t go in the sun for a few months I’m a low 3, but spend any bit of time outside and I’m high 3. Anyway, my friend is asian so I wasn’t sure if that would matter since I’d say he’s a bit darker than me, or at least a different tone. When he was done his session he sent me a picture of it. It looked horrible for a couple of reasons. The first was because you could actually see the 18mm spot size all over his stomach which was red in colour, and this was 3 hours after his treatment. It looked like someone took a solid circle stamp and put it in red ink and just attacked his stomach. I’ve never ever been able to actually see the outline of a pulse on me before, I’ve only seen it in those pictures online when you google laser burns, and you can actually see each pulse.

The second issue I had was that there was no overlapping, in one section it was, but there would be gaps between the pulses, and then wider areas in others which I could’nt believe because I always thought my tech was so good at overlapping. He says it’s not burned though, it doesn’t hurt or anything. This was 3 days ago and the marks are still there just not as dark but maybe half as dark. Is this normal? I found a skin type test online that asks you questions, when I tried it I was a mid to high type 3 so I got him to do it and he was a very low type 3. I was sure he’d score high 3 or a low 4 so it’s strange to me. The other areas he did like face didn’t react like that.

#2

Asian skin like middle eastern skin has underlying pigment. It sounds pigmentation, which means the settings were too high. What were the joules used? You only mentioned the spot size.

#3

Unfortunately I don’t know what the joules were, I only know the spot size because in the pictures it’s obvious that it’s 18mm. I told him to call and ask what it was though that was used. Is it just temporary usually?

#4

Yes, temporary.

#5

edokid — you prob figured this out already, but I found out that those burns – if from gentleLASE could be the cooling agent (cyrogen (sp?)), which sometimes burns the skin even more than the laser heat does. I have some circles possibly from that on my underarms and neck. It seems this happens in the lightest areas so I am guessing it is not the laser.

#6

Oh really, that’s odd. I’ll check and see how he’s doing, I’d post a picture but he prob wouldn’t like that too much :slight_smile: I think they’re probably gone now though. It was just weird looking, like didn’t look like a burn burn, almost more like the skin was dyed red in circles or something.