Laser Hair Removal at Home

Written by on August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If you have battled with almost every method of removing hair but you can’t afford the high prices that laser clinics charge I’m sure you are thinking about looking into laser hair removal at home especially when you see personal laser machines advertised on TV and online with glowing reviews.

But are you ready to buy a home laser machine?

You see, home laser treatment is not for everyone and it is NOT the right hair removal product for you if:-

1. you have dark skin or fair hair (or gray or red). If your coloring fits into these categories you need a specialist laser machine only available in professional clinics with the latest equipment (if you are suitable for treatment at all). That’s because home laser machines rely on targeting the pigment in dark hair without affecting the fair skin surrounding it as this has lower levels of melanin.

2. you want to work primarily on your face. Home lasers are not designed for facial hair as a rule – it’s simply too dangerous for those with no training to point a laser device anywhere near their eyes.

Laser hair removal at home

Laser hair removal at home
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3. you are not prepared to be patient. You will be able to achieve permanent hair reduction with a home laser machine but it won’t happen overnight because of the way hair grows and the way it resists being killed sometimes! Laser treatment can not affect all the hair in one session because only hairs which are in the active growth phase can be destroyed. You can’t tell which hair is in that state although about 40% of your hair will not be in the right stage at any one time and it will grow back although it will be fall out along with the other hair. Even hairs which are in the right state many need several treatments to be destroyed.

4. you are looking only to save money and buy the cheapest laser system around without reading reviews. There are quite a few systems out there where you will be wasting your money and time and will only set yourself up for disappointment. Be careful if you only find good reviews from those selling the product. Always look for independent buyer opinions. You will find various unbiased laser machine reviews on this site both good and bad (for example see those for the Silkn home laser machine and the Epila)

Having said all that, if you can truly say that you are ready to invest a bit of time and money in getting proficient with the right home laser machine and if you have the right skin and hair combination (and the above didn’t put you off) it may very well be worth the investment and starting with laser hair removal at home. Just be careful about what you buy.

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Best Selling Laser Hair Removal Machines

Written by on March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

There are quite a lot of laser hair removal machines on the market these days and of course, some sell better than others. The problem is that best selling is not so much a factor of which are the best home laser machines but a factor of which manufacturers are best at marketing.

And when it comes to marketing and advertisements, try not to get too carried away, because you cannot believe everything you read.

Although there are rules about false advertising and disclosure, all manufacturers and distributors do their best to present their laser machines in the best possible light and you will not see anything negative about any machine in the ads. Just because a lot of others have bought a particular model does not mean that they have not been disappointed and feel that they wasted their money. Just because a particular system is “As seen on TV” does not mean that it worked when a lot of consumers paid good money.

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Does best selling always mean the best system?

If you are looking for a home laser hair removal machine the only way you should let others sway you is by reading the comments from genuine buyers you can find on the web. Don’t use the manufacturers’ sites except to get a list of features of a product and details like that. Go to sites like Amazon which publish proper customer reviews, both positive and negative, to get a balance of opinion.

An example of such a page on Amazon would be this one. This page about the Silk’n system has over 15 reviews and there are some buyers who have given an initial impression and then updated their review later as they have continued their laser hair treatment.

Not all reviews are positive!

You will always find with laser machines that some people have a false expectation of instant results, so expect some negatives in any group of more than a few customer reviews. With professional laser treatment, you must spend over a thousand dollars and attend about 6 to 8 sessions over a number of months as hair which was not in the right growth phase always grows back so a home laser machine which is necessarily weaker than that used in professional laser hair removal clinics where equipment costs tens of thousands of dollars is bound to take longer and result in some regrowth until the hair is finally destroyed. Also you might find if you have coarser hair, home laser hair removal is not suitable for you and you need the strength of professional laser equipment to deal with it, whereas the equipment might work perfectly on someone with finer hair.

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