I need info.

[Eryn]

I don't know of anyone who has a perfectly hair-free face from laser. I suppose if someone has a sparse jet-black beard and transparent Nordic skin they might get that level of results, but for normal people expect a reduction in hair, but not eradication. If you want proof of this, try to tell the laser place "I'll pay you $3000 if I can keep coming in until I have a smooth face." They won't go for it because they know, as they say in the business "Results Not Typical."

That means that you're going to need electrolysis no matter what, and that isn't exactly fast. Even if you opt for the "pluck-o-thon" approach you're going to have to go through several sessions and quite a lot of clean-up over several months.

I speak from experience. Seven laser treatments and six month of two-hours-per-week electrolysis. I am making progress but hair-free is still a ways away.

[TeresaL]

and that isn't exactly fast.
six month of two-hours-per-week electrolysis. I am making progress but hair-free is still a ways away.

More perspective. I had two months, once or twice per week. Hold your pinky up. That's all she removed. In 1995, it was fifty bucks an hour. My beard is white and doesn't show, but shaving still is a hastle. I just don't know if I can muster up and do it again. LOL

[aalynn88]

I don't know of anyone who has a perfectly hair-free face from laser.

I went to a place called Ideal Image and they said they guarantee permanant removal although every article I read on the internet says there is no such thing as permanant. They said if after 5 sessions over a 10 month period if any grows back any following session is only $30.00 They are all registered nurses that work there. One of them told me you may need to have hormones to keep it from growing back. ???

[Badtranny]

I went to a place called Ideal Image and they said they guarantee permanant removal although every article I read on the internet says there is no such thing as permanant. They said if after 5 sessions over a 10 month period if any grows back any following session is only $30.00 They are all registered nurses that work there. One of them told me you may need to have hormones to keep it from growing back. ???

It would have to be enough hormones to kill you then because HRT doesn't reduce hair growth anywhere as far as I can tell. I still have to shave my chest after 2 years and 5 months on the juice.

[arbon]

The person that did my laser assured me it would be permanent but she was wrong. As for HRT - the woman that does my electrolysis now always asks me how my hormone levels are she believes to that the hrt should be reducing growth, I don't know, maybe it would be a lot worse without hrt.

[Kaitlyn Michele]

just rub some more snake oil on it!!

my first electrologist calls hair removal "bandit science"

its very unpredictable...some lucky souls have had laser work (it worked on my back and chest!!) but did nothing for my face...and 350 hrs of electrolysis has left me with sparse hair on my face but i have to shave every day...others have had some laser and much less electro and they have soft faces.

[Catherine Hopkins]

My electro record now shows 34-24-21-15 hours in my 4 sessions at e3000. That was for full clearance each time so at the start of session 4 I had about 44% the number of hairs as originally.

What it doesn't show is that each hair is weaker and grows more slowly.

My beard was the beard form hell according to the girls at e3000. Tough and fast, I needed to shave twice a day, three times if I was going somewhere special in the evening - and that was to do BOY mode. Now, I shave twice a WEEK and a good shave before getting changed into girl mode will last me all weekend.

On the plus side, because it had never been plucked, waxed or lasered, the follicles were nice and straight so easy to treat.

After 4 sessions, I guess I'm looking at about 1/3 or my original beard in terms of hair numbers but much less in terms of apparent beard.

Next visit might be 12 hours. If progress is maintained, each 3 visits will halve the hairs left and by normal calculations of half lives, 6 is effectively finished so 18 visits in total.

So far, not including flights and hotels, $10,000 or so but money well spent.

[aalynn88]

Oh im clear on the point

I was aspiring to be an anatomically correct female with a male gender. There...get it? Its because I have an autogynephillic disorder. Its not at all in opposition to my original statment. To me, that means exactly the same thing. Man in a womans body and anatomically correct female with male gender.

[Eryn]

...They said if after 5 sessions over a 10 month period if any grows back any following session is only $30.00...

Consdering that a full-beard session laser session can easily be done in 20 minutes, what they have guaranteed is that you can continue paying them $90 an hour for laser. Probably better than the standard rate, but not much of a guarantee of performance.