Second appointment before complete regrowth?

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#1

Hi, all! I’m new to hair removal and new to these forums, so I hope you guys can help point me in the right direction! I had my first treatment, for male facial/beard hair, around four weeks ago, and my next appointment is scheduled for this Monday. However, there are still significant patches of my face (maybe around 30%) where there has been no visible regrowth. (For example, no hair on my upper lip or chin, but plenty around my sideburns and neck.) Is it too early for my next treatment? Will the areas without visible regrowth miss the effects?

There was never a point when I was completely hairless, but I’m told this is normal, due to differences in the growth phase in my hair. It didn’t seem like they missed any spots, and I definitely think the hair I have on my face now is coming in faster than the hair I had a week or two after my first treatment. Thoughts?

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

#2

Lasing a make beard most often means you will end up with patches of clear skin and patches of hair. You may look like a marble cake even after several sessions, timed exactly right, that have been completed. We have heard this complaint for years on Hairtell. Eventually perhaps, you may have to finish up wih electrolysis.

I don’t know what you are aiming for for your beard. Do you want all the hair removed or are you hoping for a good reduction to make shaving easier?

#3

Dee Dee,

So often, clients (usually men) jump out of an airplane … and then mid-way down start to ask questions about parachutes.

It’s all about our impatience and desire to get things done instantly (my gender is like that). But, Dee, you are 100% right about laser and beard work!

So far, I have only seen unsightly results. Perhaps the laser approach is okay if the guy wants TOTAL beard removal (although electrolysis will eventually have to clean up the mess) … but for guys that want some sort of beard “thinning?” They’re screwed!

I have worked on three guys so far that had “failed laser” on the beard. The beard was patchy (as you say) and the guys, all of them, looked like they had some sort of disease! Maybe “ring worm” or something else. The only fix is total (or near total) beard removal with electrolysis: a grinding year’s-long task.

Learn about “parachutes” before taking the leap … it can be a LONG way down!

Here’s a hint: ASK your laser technician how many male beards she has completed (REAL NUMBERS)? … Then ask to talk with a “finished” person … LOOK at the results. If she can’t do this … quit now before you “hit the dirt!”

#4

When you see patchy results from laser which areas of the face that most of the patches occur? A male friend of mine is finishing up laser on face but he only had neck and under the chin line treated and the results are superb so far. Neck area is where he struggled with razor burn and ingrowns. (I was warning him of risk of patchiness all along, but as he was seeing good results, he told me that my advice was clueless.) :slight_smile: I think chin and upper lip is where laser struggles the most to achieve even shedding.

#5

Thanks for your response, Dee. I’m ultimately looking to remove all of the hair, but I don’t mind patchy results for now. (And I know that I’ll eventually need electrolysis if I want to get everything.) My interrim goal is to have less shadow on my face after shaving, and that’s been nice already. However, my understanding was that, since I’ve only had one treatment, I should have complete regrowth relatively quickly. I’m worried that my next treatment will miss hairs that are still waiting to grow in, and maybe would have grown in if I had waited another week or two. (Treatments can only affect visible hairs, right?) I know that this is the procedure I want for myself, I’m just trying to figure out how to get the most out of it. Should I be waiting for complete regrowth?