I’m very pale with dark hair. For the past few years, I’ve had excessive facial hair around my chin and down the middle of my neck.
It used to be manageable with regular waxing but then I turned 30 and it’s like my face went into full beard mode and I was constantly tweezing. Between Covid, a house move, illness, and life, I got into a bit of a vicious cycle of shaving and needing to do it constantly- no point allowing the hair to grow enough to wax as it was so very visible but then shaving isn’t taking the hair at the root so the result doesn’t last. Add to that the occasional ingrown hair from shaving and it’s tough enough to keep under control.
Over the past 18 months, the situation got much worse. If I shave at 8am, I have visible stubble by 6pm. I never leave home without a razor. I bought a Philips Lumea and it made very little difference. I’m not great at being kind to myself, for various reasons, so the idea of going to a salon to get it done terrified me.
But I bit the bullet and had my first laser session last night. It took ten minutes and today is the first day in about two years that I haven’t had to shave. My chin feels perfectly smooth. The therapist said it was likely I’d see some improvement after the first session but I wasn’t expecting such an amazing result.
I know there’ll be regrowth over the next while as new hairs emerge and I’ll have to get the razor out, but if this is a sign of things to come, I’m really excited. I’ve booked and paid for a package of sessions.
Not sure why I’m posting this- mix of shock and delight, I suppose. And also just to encourage anyone who has a similar issue and is putting off trying laser treatment.