After many struggles against my facial hair, I have taken the plunge and purchased a personal laser. God I hope it works, I just want to be freed from the constant shaving.
is the main constraint on electrolysis or laser money? Because $200 could have paid for a few sessions on the face and would have gotten you much further (at least based on my understanding of personal laser devices).
The promise of personal devices is results roughly equivalent to what you would see from a professional, just over a longer period of time. Yeah $200 would have paid for like, 3 sessions of my face, but I’d also like for this to be a solution to my arms, legs, bikini area, etc. I typically wax those areas, but have had issues getting good results with waxing my face T.T hence the purchase. Ideally, once I see facial results, I can start using it on the rest of my body instead. I think this will be more economical in the long-run for full body treatment, I’ll just be trading money for time.
huh, that’s a pretty big claim (that it gets the same results, just takes longer). The costs for laser treatments are a whole order of magnitude greater, I would imagine if at-home devices were effective the economics would cause most people (esp. trans people who typically have less money than the average person) to use them and have them recommended - so my assumption has always been that they can’t be that effective.
either way, I’m happy to be wrong and excited to hear how it goes!
EDIT: here are some of the things I see being said:
- that at-home “laser” devices are not laser devices at all, they’re IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) devices
- lots of people reporting IPL devices definitely helps thin their hair, esp. on arms and legs
- lots of people saying IPL won’t do much, esp. for face and groin
- that IPL devices don’t result in permanent hair removal, but puts hair follicles into a temporary dormant state while laser is more likely to actually destroy follicles
I think this just confirms my impression that IPL results are not likely to justify the cost, unfortunately.
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