do you suffer from nipple and facial hair........ipl hair removal????

[spookshowangel]

have you ever had it? i have always suffered at the hand of the extra hair, you know the ones if you know my pain. the nipple hairs that must be plucked the line of hair from tummy to pubes, the tash that gets bleached etc. but of late last year or so i have discovered the joy of the dark chin hair at first just one or two now the blonde hair there is getting longer and turning dark and there is too much to pluck. soooo i am considering ipl and am wondering if any of you ladies or gents would mind sharing your tales with me, does it work etc???

I have thick dark hair and very pale skin (white blonde, pale mum crossed with Dark haired, olive skinned dad - thanks guys - i couldn't have had it the other way round and been blonde and tanned!).

I have full leg, bikini (extended right up the back crack too!) & naval wax - toes to rib cage - seeexxxaaayyyyy!

I also now have the angry black chin hairs which i pluck and i bleach my moustache. I also pluck nipple hair.

But the one area which has bothered me all my life is forearm hair. People would make really nasty comments. On tubes strangers would stare and say 'oh my god aren't you hairy' etc. I always wore long sleeves but even my hands and fingers would bother me.

Anyway, i gave in and had laser treatment at the Harley Medical Group and now my arms are hairless. I love them and enyjoy wearing t-shirts now.

I am now going to get my naval done and keep working downwards.

It is slightly sore. The current stings like elastic bands twanging against your skin. I had 4 treatments and each time they use a stronger pulse.

It was a bit pricey too but so worth it!

Hi galaxy hell yes! The treatment hurts! I have a pretty high pain threshold as well but the lazer is a nasty hot pain - don't know how better to say it. After my first three sessions on a new area I would get these red raised welts that scabbed over and then dropped off. It sounds nasty but it leaves no scars or marks so I don't really care. The Dr said that was quite a strong reaction though - maybe not normal? The hair will come out after a week and a half usually.

I gave up waxing completely to do lazer which was scary because shaved hair seems so bristley and dark compared to waxing regrowth. What my Dr recommends is that you shave with a razor 48 hours before the treatment and then the hair is at exactly the right point in its growth cycle to be killed. The hair cycle is the key thing apparently. In your position i would probably grow out my waxed hair and get shaving - this will also free any ingrown hairs to get zapped.

I am now completely hair free in some areas (bikini) and just very reduced in others e.g. legs. I see it as an ongoing process really....

they will want me to shave my chin?????????

Yes, and it will feel wrong, but it will be okay and the hairs will die :)

oh thats a scary prospect.

Ahh right, I'm going there on Monday so I'll ask him to crank up the power then! I literally felt nothing, except for a tiny hot pin prick on one section of my bikini line. Though my bikini line did feel a little bit like i had sunburn for a couple of hours after, i certainly didn't scab up or anything, ouch!

Also, he'd told me to completely shave before the treatment, which i thought was strange because there was no hair sticking out of my skin to attract the laser, so i will leave it 2 days instead this time like you recommend.

I usually shave underarms or use hair removal cream for my nether regions, i just thought the waxing might make my hair all grow at the same speed and time to make them easier to kill.

I'm glad your hair removal has been successful, all the advice I've read about laser hair removal stresses that it's only hair 'reduction' and you can't expect it to last.

I'm getting mine done in Germany - maybe they have different zapping standards here. When I told her about looking like a burns victim for 2 days she just shrugged and said "ja..thats a strong reaction..." and that was it. Good luck with it all anyway - just ask your Dr loads of questions about how it works, I would be if my German wasn't so crap. My Dr is also adamant that I should stay hair-free for years and years, which I think is exaggerating things a bit.

I had to shave my arms first and even any poking out had to be shaved off when i got there - they flare and burn i think. The smell is rancid.

yeah can see that but once you shave thats it, so my few bad pluckable hairs and my not massively noticeable brownish hair will become black stubble. and if it grows back i am stuck like that for ever................not pleasant prospect but hair free prospect is pleasant. hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I am in my late 40s and for the last few years I have been afflicted with occasional chin hairs that have to be plucked. This is happening increasingly frequently.

But it does seem particularly unfair that this change started to happen at about the same time that my eyesight started to deteriorate so even with the magnifying side of the mirror I still need glasses to see the wretched things!

Also I have found that over the last few years I have had no need to pluck my eyebrows.

Just what sort of perversity is it that will make your face stop growing hairs at one end but start shooting them out at the other?

Just what sort of perversity is it that will make your face stop growing hairs at one end but start shooting them out at the other?

It's cos they are stray eyebrows with no sense of direction, being undone by gravity. They are not chin hairs at all.