Long term eppilating before laser?

[MoonlitMariah]

So I'm so excited of getting rid of my body hair soon, I've hated it my whole life.

Question is, I've read that after eppilating for a while the hair can come in lighter.  Since laser is most effective on dark hairs, I'm wondering if I should just start laser (home laser) and shaving instead to prevent messing up the efficiency of the laser?

Thanks,
Mariah

[Bari Jo]

Thought I'd bump this since like to read the responses too.  I've been emulating for quite a while.  I'd like to know if this interferes with laser or electrolysis.

[warlockmaker]

Body hair is much easier to manage than facial hair. Body hair is not terminal hair and HRT will get rid or significantly thin most of it. If you have dark hair then I suggest that you use laser, some home use models are very effective these days. If blonde then the hair is less dense and with HRT will become even less. Like most cis female waxing, depilitory or eppilating works and for mtf hrt greatly makes this very effective. Before hrt you may find ingrown hairs to be an irratating issue. I have tried them all and now have no body hair issues that cannot easily be managed.

[AnneK]

I used to use an epilator, before I went for laser.  I just had to stop using it, so that the hair could grow back in to be zapped.  The process was to shave an area before getting the laser treatments.

[Bari Jo]

Before hrt you may find ingrown hairs to be an irratating issue. I have tried them all and now have no body hair issues that cannot easily be managed.

OMG, I can't tell you how many ingrown hairs I get just by shaving my face.  It's probably half the reason I have GD, grins.  I cannot wait till HRT makes that a thing of the past!

[Bari Jo]

The process was to shave an area before getting the laser treatments.

Im going for my first laser treatment (chest) on wed.  Do you shave at home?  Or do they shave you, then do the laser?  Should I bring a razer to shave in their bathroom?  I've never done this so I don't know what to expect.

[Dayta]

I epilated my legs for about a year before I started my laser treatment.  After 6 treatments, I think, my legs were almost completely clear.  I find an odd hair once in a while now, a year later, but it seems like an overwhelming success for me.  I didn't notice any differences in the coarseness off the hairs themselves during the epilation phase, but it was sure beating them down in sheer numbers. 

Erin

[MoonlitMariah]

Thanks for all the replies.  I decided that I would just start laser immediately using the tria 4x, expensive, but this is important to me and is a life long change, so I might as well try to do it right from the beginning and it is highly reviewed.  Also got an eppilator for the areas I'm not treating to start with since it shouldn't affect the laser.

Mariah

[amandam]

The Tria is so expensive. I wonder if others work just as well. How did u decide on the Tria?

[MoonlitMariah]

The Tria is an actual laser system, while almost all other products I found were intense pulsed light.  Having a laser diode means much better directing and targeting of the energy, as lasers have almost perfect collimation, and they can pick an exact wavelength.  IPL is not laser based so the light cannot be directed nearly as well and it's going to produce a lot more wavelengths in the spectrum (I think much of it's filtered out from my research).

That and it is FDA approved, a lot of the devices aren't, and when I'm exposing myself to high power radiation of some sort, I want to make sure I'm not causing damage to more than my hair follicles.