There is always something wrong.

Two weeks ago I had my 7:th IPL treatment on my back and the first on my whole upper body at a new clinic. At my former clinic they used to miss big patchess of hair on my back that didn’t shed while all other hairs shed completely, and they did not do any touch ups.
At this new clinic they offer touch ups and the practitioner was realy thorough when zapping me. But I felt so little pain when she zapped me and I told her several times to turn up the fluence, but she insisted that the fluence was enough.

Now over two weeks after my treatment, shedding phase is over (my shedding always take two weeks) and now instead of big patchess of missed hair that doesn’t shed, I have sporadic hairs everywhere that wont shed and that are firmly attached in the skin and growing. It can’t bee missed patchess because of the very sporadic pattern and I do believe that it must be because of the insufficient fluence setting - there wasn’t enough energy to go around for all hairs (is that a correct expression?).
Has anyone experienced something similar? Is my diagnosis correct?
On monday I’m going to have the touch up session and I’m going to tell her that I want it all rezapped hehehe <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />. I do believe that this is my right becuase I pay a lot of money (I meen a LOT!) and the least I will demand is to have one relatively hair free month between sessions.

you decided to go with IPL? I thought your were going to try LightSheer?

I know, that was my intention. But I guess a was to weak to argue with my practitioner, I just went along.
Also the thing is that I don’t know if my skin can handle LightSheer and everybody seem to write about how bad their skin looks after LightSheer, and they all have wite skin.
I don’t know if my skin is 4 or 5 in the Fitzpatrick scale, people seem to define dark african skin as 5 or 6, and although I am brown, I’m not “black” like a african.
Tomorrw I have my touch up session and I am going to tell her that I want to try LightSheer on my next treatment and that I want the settings to be 31J (fluence), 100ms(pulse width) and the biggest prism (12mm?).
Is the LightSheer prism round or rectangular?
Maybe I should tell her to do test spots with the LightSheer tomorrow when she is treating the missed patchess from last time? Then I can see what my skin can take.

yes, definitely get a couple test spots at various settings with LightSheer before doing an entire area. I would try 20 joules, 25 joules, and 30 joules. this way, if you get burned, it would be only a tiny area.

Who complained about skin looking bad after LightSheer, especially with light skin? I haven’t seen that yet. I have light skin and had no problems with LightSheer in terms of that. No redness at all even right 30 mins after treatment.

I will do that lagirl.
Would trying to go higher than 30J with the LightSheer be a good idea? I mean maybe I could try with like 35J on a test spot?

I know, that was my intention. But I guess a was to weak to argue with my practitioner, I just went along.
Also the thing is that I don’t know if my skin can handle LightSheer and everybody seem to write about how bad their skin looks after LightSheer, and they all have wite skin.
I don’t know if my skin is 4 or 5 in the Fitzpatrick scale, people seem to define dark african skin as 5 or 6, and although I am brown, I’m not “black” like a african.
Tomorrw I have my touch up session and I am going to tell her that I want to try LightSheer on my next treatment and that I want the settings to be 31J (fluence), 100ms(pulse width) and the biggest prism (12mm?).
Is the LightSheer prism round or rectangular?
Maybe I should tell her to do test spots with the LightSheer tomorrow when she is treating the missed patchess from last time? Then I can see what my skin can take.

What IPL device are you being treated with?

Did they give you any reason why they are treating you with IPL instead of with the laser?

The Lightsheer prism is 12mm square so there is no need to overlap as there would be with a circular spot. I responded to some of your questions in your other post titled “A new LightSheer Machine.” You should find the links I posted there very interesting.

RJC2001

I would think that 35J is way too high for your skin tone. 30 is probably the highest I’d try…

RJC2001 thankyou for taking the time to answer my questions. You are very very kind.
At the clinic their argument for not treating me with LightSheer is that the sessions will take several hours (6-7 hours?) because of the small spot size, and I am treating my whole upper body.

a good tech should be able to do the entire upper body in about 2 hours tops I think, if not less. 6-7 is way too much unless they don’t know what they are doing at all…

RJC2001 thankyou for taking the time to answer my questions. You are very very kind.
At the clinic their argument for not treating me with LightSheer is that the sessions will take several hours (6-7 hours?) because of the small spot size, and I am treating my whole upper body.

With a 12mm spot (available on the Lightsheer XC) I could get my chest done in one hour. Same for the back and arms. So it would take about 3 hours to cover the areas one time.

A 9 mm spot would take quite a bit longer.

RJC2001