Yikes! Darlings, in-office laser treatment is great if one can afford the luxury, but if you are not swimming in money I urge those interested try IPL first! IPL…Intense Pulse(ed) Light…sort of in the laserishesque family…and some people think they are one in the same…Now, I don’t want anyone to think I am trying to sell anything so you’ll note I do not mention any specific brand name.
Backstory: I first heard about IPL from a blurb in a popular women’s fashion magazine many years ago. One company was named as being in the initial early R&D of a hair removal device. As it turned out, this company produced the first home use IPL device…it worked very well and sold for about $900 (IPL 1.0). Well, I waited to see where IPL would go and followed it as best as my resources permitted. Some years later, a second company managed a way around the first company’s patent and brought their IPL unit to market (IPL 2.0). IPL 2.0 had and has a larger treatment surface area than IPL 1.0, which was important to me as I HAD a lot of dark body hair. Since the technology had been battle-tested for over five years by then, so after 6+ years of rotary epilating, I shelled out $600 for home IPL unit 2.0. This was done more years ago than I care to count and I’ll let you have the fun of googling anything you may not already know about IPL, but one thing is keystone: It really only works on dark (brown or black) hair growing on light skin, but IT WORKS PHENOMENALLY WELL!.
Fast forward to now: After faithfully using my IPL unit for the first year I had it I was PERMANENTLY over 70% body-hairless. Over the second year I broke about 90% and now I have been 98%+ PERMANENTLY body-hairLESS (bikini zone included) since some many years ago. I still have my IPL unit and it still works. I have not used it in over five years yet I would not sell it because about once a year I bring it out and hit one or two renegade hairs still spotted rarely among that 2-%.
If you do not have brown or black hair on light skin then you are relegated to have to see what the fancy actual laser tech can do for you, but if you do have said, I urge you to trust me, trust IPL, treat yourself to whatever reputable one covers the most surface area in a ‘shot’ (there are many brands now, but read reviews and do your homework on them. I stopped staying up on them when I no longer had any body hair to see.)
But, since it is only fair that I help in some small way, the brand of mine is four letters that start with a “V”. $600 and 2 years = 98+% PERMANENTLY BODY HAIRLESS!
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Yikes! Darlings, in-office laser treatment is great if one can afford the luxury, but if you are not swimming in money I urge those interested try IPL first! IPL…Intense Pulse(ed) Light…sort of in the laserishesque family…and some people think they are one in the same…Now, I don’t want anyone to think I am trying to sell anything so you’ll note I do not mention any specific brand name.
Backstory: I first heard about IPL from a blurb in a popular women’s fashion magazine many years ago. One company was named as being in the initial early R&D of a hair removal device. As it turned out, this company produced the first home use IPL device…it worked very well and sold for about $900 (IPL 1.0). Well, I waited to see where IPL would go and followed it as best as my resources permitted. Some years later, a second company managed a way around the first company’s patent and brought their IPL unit to market (IPL 2.0). IPL 2.0 had and has a larger treatment surface area than IPL 1.0, which was important to me as I HAD a lot of dark body hair. Since the technology had been battle-tested for over five years by then, so after 6+ years of rotary epilating, I shelled out $600 for home IPL unit 2.0. This was done more years ago than I care to count and I’ll let you have the fun of googling anything you may not already know about IPL, but one thing is keystone: It really only works on dark (brown or black) hair growing on light skin, but IT WORKS PHENOMENALLY WELL!.
Fast forward to now: After faithfully using my IPL unit for the first year I had it I was PERMANENTLY over 70% body-hairless. Over the second year I broke about 90% and now I have been 98%+ PERMANENTLY body-hairLESS (bikini zone included) since some many years ago. I still have my IPL unit and it still works. I have not used it in over five years yet I would not sell it because about once a year I bring it out and hit one or two renegade hairs still spotted rarely among that 2-%.
If you do not have brown or black hair on light skin then you are relegated to have to see what the fancy actual laser tech can do for you, but if you do have said, I urge you to trust me, trust IPL, treat yourself to whatever reputable one covers the most surface area in a ‘shot’ (there are many brands now, but read reviews and do your homework on them. I stopped staying up on them when I no longer had any body hair to see.)
But, since it is only fair that I help in some small way, the brand of mine is four letters that start with a “V”. $600 and 2 years = 98+% PERMANENTLY BODY HAIRLESS!