Tria hair removal

[Jamie Marie]

I use it there and for the little bit of random hairs on chest. It hurts a little but definitely less than underarms on the highest setting but there is also significantly less hairs there not that i had much anyway.

As use it on arms and legs on highest setting. As far as face, well i'm a sissy the lowest two settings with cream make me tear up so i'm getting face and neck professionally done. Overall i'd say the results aren't too bad but it does take longer to use but also much cheaper than having it done.

[Jennygirl]

Week two with Tria v4 on the face on highest setting.. This thing works: I've been having ejections like crazy. I love the Tria. Still hurts like a mofo and I like that.... (means it's working)

By the way I cannot even imagine how painful this would be without having quite a bit of professional laser first. I highly doubt I will be back in there though, much to the chagrin of my doc

[Jamie Marie]

Glad it's working well for you also. I still dont want to try on upper lip or chin again for awhile but still works great other places without cussing. Seems like the results for this and professional laser on face reduce my hair about a third each time so i would say pretty painful but effective and definitely worth it. I hope it doesn't wear out.

[Sarah84]

This sounds promising. I was at 3 hair removal procedures,  and if that tool really works well it should save me bundle of money in a long term. I will look at amazon, I hope they deliver to my country. At ebay it costs incredible 699usd! 

[Lara the Lover and the Fighter]

Holy crud this thing actually works?  Anyone with long term results?  Especially on beards.

[Sybil]

You all are really making me want to get one of these, especially since the deals on groupon are getting kind of cheap and shady (lots of IPL, most deals now have a limit of 180 or 90 days as opposed to the 6 months they used to). Could anyone provide any updates? I'm so on the fence about dropping $500 on one.

@Jennygirl:
I really hope you make that tutorial or that I can at least find one elsewhere. I've fixed a lot of my own electronics, but I've never done soldering. That would go a long way towards feeling comfortable buying one of these things.

[Sybil]

I think, mostly, I'd like to know how permanent the results seem to be. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but the Tria is expensive, and while I can't wait to get all the hair off of my body, being a good saver and smart consumer is a huge part of transition.

[Sophia Hawke]

so does tria work better on very light skin?  And also even better when the hairs are lighter?

[Jennygirl]

so does tria work better on very light skin?  And also even better when the hairs are lighter?

Light skin, yes. Light hair, no.

Any proper laser treatment targets dark pigmentation, so if everything is light colored it will have no effect. Conversely, if you have dark skin it will target everything and burn! That's why the tria has a skin brightness sensor as part of its start-up routine.

Also, I've been using it on my face and I continue to get hair ejections I went in for another pro laser session in late August because I was going to the desert and did not want to shave, but it appears that the Tria is a wonderful complement. I've been using it on my upper torso and bikini line as well, and I've barely any hair left there!

[jojoglowe]

Just last week I found an unused Tria 4x from my craigslist for $225. Before that I was using a modified One Touch Electrolysis to remove my beard hair. Works, but sloooowly, and left behind red spots or pimple looking things after use. <They heal up in a few days, no biggie

I'm hoping the Tria will help me spend less time on hair removal and also get me some results faster than the One Touch.

I'll share my experience once I see results!

I read through the book and wasn't too sure how often to use it at first. I heard somewhere about 2 weeks between treatments on the same spot, but that was just something online that I read and not from the instruction book.

Oh, and I got it for $225 because the original owner bought it, and then read that you shouldn't use it if you are pregnant. Well, she already had the child, but thought that she still would not be able to use it, sort of like how some medications work. I can only imagine that the "don't use if you are pregnant" is more of a liability thing and mainly applies to when you are carrying the child, but who knows. I'm just happy I got such a great deal! 

[jojoglowe]

Thanks Emily! That's a beautiful name, my girlfriend shares it with you Thanks for your reply. I haven't tried the numbing, glad to hear (before I bought any) that it doesn't really help on the upper lip area. That area was really bad with my One Touch Electrolysis also. Much pain, and it would always make me have  to sneeze, lol.

I think I will use the Tria a bit more frequently than 2 weeks now. I would hate to go through all the hassle and not be using it enough. Since posting on here I read somewhere that the older models were 2 weeks and the 4x is 1 week, as apparently it is easier for people to do something weekly than every other week. 3 - 4 days sounds good too, and it's good to hear that you eventually became able to do it at 5. All I heard on here was people using it at 5, but I could hardly stand 3! I've found it's much easier when I have someone else do it for me.

Your face looks very nice and shadow free on your profile avatar, glad to see it is working for you! Can't wait to come back here and say how great it was for me

[barbie]

I plucked some hairs out to make the area less covered and so the treatment was more bearable at the beginning. Of course, what I plucked could not be zapped, but they came out eventually and I zapped them too! Cheers and good luck

Yes. You already figured out how to use Tria efficiently and properly. For the beard area, it will take far more time than you initially expected, but do not hurry as that area can be burned and damaged, requiring time to regenerate.

barbie~~

[michelle666]

I have the tria. I didnt use it on my face, I got the done by a pro. I did use it on other areas and it has worked very well for me. I'm the perfect laser candidate though, with pale skin and dark hair. It takes a while to use, but if you're patient and keep at it, it will work.

[Jennygirl]

I've been using it on my bikini line, chest & happy trail, and just started armpits.

Bikini line is finally starting to get there, happy trail is GONE, any hair on my chest is GONE (wasn't much to start with there), and excited to have less armpit hair to deal with! Yay!

I decided to go back in for some more pro sessions on my face, because as Barbie mentioned the tria does work very slowly there... Too slow for me right now. I was getting hair ejections 4 or 5 days after using it, but nowhere near what my doctor can do with his full LightSheer setup. Probably 100 hair ejections on the spot in the office. You can't beat that!

What I do like about Tria on the face is that if done properly it seems like it's less load on the skin. Like, there is no recovery time after using tria on the face. It's red for a few hours and then good to go. After an office visit, it's literally a week to 10 days of feeling like I look like crap until I finally start to benefit from the results.

I do think it will be useful in the future to do maintenance / touch ups as needed on the face. It will be very nice to have when that time arrives

[barbie]

Yes, it is similar for me with happy trail and chest hair (but I also had very little on the chest, to start with). I am a bit hesitant about armpits, because i am afraid it would hurt like hell and the area would get irritated by clothes and such as... So, does it? I agree about face that it is not that strong as reviews I have read from other girls here, but for me the swelling from lvl 5 is gone mostly gone within 30 mins and remaining redness is gone overnight (that's why I usually do that in the evening before my bedtime).

For me, the easiest part was actually arm pits. Actually there are no so many hairs in arm pits and you can greatly reduce hairs by treating just 3 or 4 times. It took less than 30 min for each session. But it is better to apply some moisture cream after Tria. For other parts, too, if your skin is sensitive, then you have better apply moisture cream after Tria session.

barbie~~

[Jennygirl]

Yeah I just did my armpits yesterday on setting 3 for the first time. I knew I would definitely not be able to handle 5 the first time. 3 was totally manageable right after showering & shaving.

Yeah you are right barbie, the hair is sparse and coarse. What a weird combo! Oh well, easier to zap!

[barbie]

Yeah you are right barbie, the hair is sparse and coarse. What a weird combo! Oh well, easier to zap!

At first, I used a mirror to see and zap arm pit hairs, but later realized that I can see my arm pits directly, far easier to zap.

barbie~~

[Sybil]

To those of you saying the Tria is not as strong on the face, if you don't mind me asking, is it still clearing your face up? Is it taking drastically longer than a clinical visit?

As long as it works and it doesn't take years, it still sounds good to me. I was under the impression that the Tria would take about the same amount of time as having laser done professionally, if only because you can treat aggressively with the Tria (and not miss the hair growth phase), but appointments need to be made with clinics and are several weeks apart.

I don't know, I'm not wholly enlightened on laser; but I can't help but wonder if the Tria is still okay for your face.

[Thylacin]

To those of you saying the Tria is not as strong on the face, if you don't mind me asking, is it still clearing your face up? Is it taking drastically longer than a clinical visit?

As long as it works and it doesn't take years, it still sounds good to me. I was under the impression that the Tria would take about the same amount of time as having laser done professionally, if only because you can treat aggressively with the Tria (and not miss the hair growth phase), but appointments need to be made with clinics and are several weeks apart.

I don't know, I'm not wholly enlightened on laser; but I can't help but wonder if the Tria is still okay for your face.

I think that visits to clinics are 4 weeks apart because there wouldn't be any point in doing it sooner. You zap all the hair you can on one visit, then need to wait a couple weeks for shedding and then a little while longer for other hairs to enter their growth phase, then you can zap those.

[Sybil]

I think that visits to clinics are 4 weeks apart because there wouldn't be any point in doing it sooner. You zap all the hair you can on one visit, then need to wait a couple weeks for shedding and then a little while longer for other hairs to enter their growth phase, then you can zap those.

To my understanding, the Tria laser suggests you should use it weekly. I think this is more of user-precaution on their part, since they expect users not to know when the growth phase is.