I've been waiting and waiting for someone to come up with a product like meladine.  From what I've read, it's the solution for laser removal of white or grey hair.  You spray this on your face 6 times each morning for the 14 days prior to laser, and the follicles are melanin- impregnated, and subject to laser removal.  Also, the tria laser is the only fda approved 40 watt laser home unit that really works? 
So, between the meladine @$95 a bottle, and ~ $7oo (ebay) for the tria laser, you can be a total do it your selfer!

Anyone have any experience with this?

Bev

The pamphlet I have on Meladine recommends:

For Coarse Hair - begin daily regimen 4 to 6 weeks prior to laser treatment

6x in the morning and 6x @ night for 6 weeks ...or,

8x in the morning and 8x @night for 4 weeks

My laser doctor recommends:

6x in the morning, 6x noonish, and 6x @ night for a total of 18x/day for 4 weeks prior!

Don't buy the tria from ebay.  Its only $100 more from the mfr and you get a return period (and you may need it).

I returned a first gen tria (second gen is out now) less than 2 weeks ago.  I have light skin and dark coarse hair.  I never really saw a reasonable amount of temporary shedding.  Based on what I've read if you don't shed then there is no chance its permanent.  My lower chest, legs and arms were basically untouched.  I did have around 20% temp loss on my upper chest. 

You aren't supposed to use it on your face, but I did.  My face was a total waste.  I did it twice during the trial period and now 3 weeks from the second and 6 weeks from the first I have very little loss.  It also broke out my face for at least 2 weeks each time.  The first week was terrible.

For the pain it causes (I only used it on the highest setting), it just isn't even enough temporary loss to justify it for me. 

I have heard of good reports on Meladine working for some it remains to be seen though how effective long term as with laser in general but it is certainly an option and more and more laser clinics seem to be pushing its use.

As for home laser, the answer lies in 40watts, the supposedly less effective IPL is around 500watt and a full blown diode or alexandrite laser for instance is 20,000 to show you the type of power required for hair removal.

At best i understand it is just an epilator, at worst you add it to the other useless things you bought like solar power sandwich maker and that foot massager that doesnt massage 

I wanted Meladine to work, I really did. I used it religiously, SIX applications thoroughly rubbed it into the skin TWICE daily, exactly as recommended. After going through 7 bottles at $75 each that barely last long enough for the time between monthly laser sessions , other than a nasty case of foliculitis after eash session, I don't believe it helped clear one gray hair. My money is better spent on electro for the gray the laser can't get.

Hi Bev,
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Honestly, I wouldn't bother with the tria.  I tried the newer model last November. 
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I have dark hair and light skin, so it sounded like it might work for me.  I too only used the highest setting.  It is very very time consuming, which I could stand if it worked.  One thing you should know, is that the laser is not powerful enough to produce shedding of the hairs as a professional laser would do.  Because of this, it can be difficult to tell whether it's working...or whether you're just wasting your time and money.  You get maybe 30 minutes of use for every charge, so it'll be hard to do any large areas properly without it taking a good amount of your day waiting for it to charge back up again.
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Pain on arm hair was minimal. 
Chest hair?  Yeouch! 
Anything dark and thick is going to really hurt.  (I generally have a high pain threshold, but the chest hairs were worse that electro on the upper lip)
All that...and no way to tell if it's even having an effect on the hairs?  I returned it, and decided my money was better spent on electrolysis.
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I would love it if I could do it myself at such a low cost (compared to electrolysis), but I don't see any viable home removal methods out there.  Even the more powerful professional lasers are iffy whether they'll work (a lot of people I've spoken with weren't happy, the hair came back, and they ended up doing electro anyway).  I may consider learning electrolysis for body hair, but my face is something I'm not messing around with.  I'll leave that to the pros.