To want a hair removal method that actually works?!

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I like to swim but I don't like going if I haven't sorted out the dreaded bikini line, and all I want is an effective bikini-line removal method that doesn't involve me going to get waxed every 3-4 weeks! (This is mainly because I don't want to wait the inevitable period in between waxes which means staying hairy for a couple of weeks... )

Can anyone recommend any instant hair removal that actually works? Shaving is no good, can still see the root of the hair and I've never found a hair removal cream that works. Anyone had laser hair removal/is it any good/any negatives? Never tried epilating but if anyone has used it is there a particular brand to go for?

I bought a Lumea a couple of years ago, and it's fantastic.

My pits were hairless after about 4 goes, my legs, which rivalled Chewbacca's, now have just a few hairs left, and my bikini line, which resembled the Ashdown Forest*, only took a very few goes for all the hair to stop growing back.

For some reason(stupidity, probably), it didn't occur to me to try it on my bikini line until a year or so ago. I wish I'd done it when I first got the thing.

• Which, as the Sussex Posse will know, an officially designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Does anyone with pcos have laser and did it work ??

jumping on as I also suffer with thigh beard face beard the lot.

How would you go finding a reputable licenced? person? I don't want to end up worse than before otherwise people are gonna think big foot has moved to the UK!

HMG have 30% off at the mo!!

Lumea did nowt for me #yeti. Swapped for a Smoothskin Gold and am now ex yeti. Wish it had been invented years back.

Ok I've just put a bid on for a Philips Lumea on eBay. Usually I shave because I hate the regrowth from waxing and it fucking hurts so quite excited about this!!!

Can I have a stiff gin beforehand, strictly for medical purposes...?

I use Philips lines and it makes not a shed of difference. Am gutted, as they seen course black hairs to me!

Is there anything out there for us mousy but hairy fair skinned bods? Hate shaving and too mean to regularly pay for sugaring or waxing (& waxing gave me a week long rash... both times I tried it and at different places too... so when the rash went there was about a week before I was starting to feel stubble again)

My fairly easy regime now is to let armpit and leg hair grow in the winter, have it all waxed off (ouch) then epilate from there. Yes it is painful, but only have to do it a bit every few days and there is less stubble.

Also did bikini line with the boots version Of the lumea, took months to get it all clear but now, five years later it’s still prettty clear. If i hadn’t I think my bikini line would have been down to my knees.

@Hushnownobodycares do you have any idea why a change of model made all the difference? Is it simply that the second one was better? I'm trying to work out why, when I've got pale skin and black hairs, I've had no results!

I also went to have laser done about 4-5 times and it made no difference at all. Since then they contacted me for more sessions as they had upgraded their machines but I wasn't happy to go for it this time.

This was back in 2005 mind you!

Massively tempting, can I ask how much laser treatment cost?

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The Smoothskin bills itself as the most powerful model available. I did a lot of research into specs and that did seem to be the case at least at the time. I have the 200 model which was the latest one at the time I bought it and I got it on an Amazon deal which compared very favourably with the Lumea price. The other thing that put me off the cordless Lumea is that if you don't keep it regularly charged say over winter apparently the battery dies and can't be revived which seemed like a massive own goal. The Smoothskin is corded but the cord is long enough for it not to be too much of an issue.

Really tempted to try laser on my legs. Grows back in a few hours after shaving.

The trouble I have is my face. It's thick hair all over but blond. I tried plucking a bit round my chin and grows back dark so don't want to do that all over my face. Is there any laser for blond hair?

Don’t waste time going to beauty salons as I have been warned that their lasers aren’t as strong and they dont really know what they are doing. You want the full on, medical, nurse-administered, have-to-wear-special-glasses experience.

100% this. Don’t waste your time with IPL or anything offered by a beauty salon. They aren’t anywhere near as effective and I wouldn’t want someone under qualified waving one around my bits!

For those asking, my laser treatment started out as a short sharp pain, but as the laser was turned up to eradicate the last few stubborn hairs it was proper breathe-slowly-through-mouth-pain. I have a high pain threshold. Maybe that’s the difference between ipl machines and proper laser machines?

It’s expensive but not that unaffordable when you consider what regular waxing costs, and that waxing is done indefinitely. With laser you’re working towards an end goal.

I'll quite happy with a Philips epilator, but I have quite fine hair which may make it less painful.

Don’t waste time going to beauty salons as I have been warned that their lasers aren’t as strong and they dont really know what they are doing. You want the full on, medical, nurse-administered, have-to-wear-special-glasses experience.

Interested to know what 'medical grade' means in the context of laser?

The session I had at Strip, a dedicated wax/laser salon chain, is described as 'premium medical grade laser' - I certainly had to wear full on glasses for mine. Might be different because it's a specialist hair removal place?