Quote from: Evelyn K on July 09, 2014, 11:22:52 PM
In NYC? That *is* cheapo 
What % of hair would you say was perm gone after the 1st session?
(It's in Queens.) The first session kills a lot of hair, and it takes about 10-15 days before the hair falls out, but you can keep shaving the whole time. (Some people can't shave the next day after a treatment if their skin is too sensitive, but I never had that issue with the laser. After each session you want to put to Aloe Gel on it. The good pure stuff. My skin gets more irritation from razor burn than laser.) After the first session, there will be some dark patches here and there, but easily 60% of the dark hairs were gone after that 10-15 days. It's really after the second and third sessions when you get to see a huge different. After the 2nd session I no longer had a 5 o'clock shadow unless more than a day went by. (Prior, I would start to shadow within hours, but it was never dense in the face, it was just dense underneath the chin.)
After the 3rd session I was able to go full time and sometimes even without makeup I would pass. Right before the next session (I do a session every 6 weeks), a little shadow would creep in on the upper lips and chin. After each session, this becomes less and less. I just had my 7th session last week and right now even though not all that was done has had a chance to fall out, I hardly have any upper lip shadow. I've seen cis-women with darker upper lips than me.
Once thing to remember is that it takes about 3 sessions to hit ALL the hairs at least once, but many of them will get hit twice in that 3 session range. The upper lip is the pesky ones that just don't want to let go, but the laser eventually wins. I've been told that the average needed is about 8-10 sessions, but some have needed up to 12 or more. A good technician will tell you when that's all laser can do and mine will tell you when it's time.
The other cool thing about the place I get it done, is that it is at a school and they get a lot of new equipment all the time. She's has used 3 different machines on me since I started and the latest one (was only a week old when she used it on me last week) uses an invisible laser that uses a different wavelength that travels deeper. (The other two used a laser you could see even with you eyes closed and covered.) She didn't even have to tell me, I could feel the different and the pain from the laser was deeper than before and a little more intense. (Not as bad as electrolysis.) But she also cranked it up pretty good as she knows I have a higher pain tolerance than most of her patients.
