Swirlmommy

Works on my Light/med Colored Skin..will Need More Treatments Long Term - Suffern, NY

I believe I am a 3...closer to a 4. The ndyag laser will not burn. Hurt you...YES...but no burns. You just get raised bumps on your skin, which is a sign that it's working. After 10 minutes the bumps are gone and you can't even tell you were lasered. (I used to get the Candella laser and that baby would scar me badly. It would leave a matrix of black/blue laser circles all over my skin. I cried all summer). The pain is awful. It only lasts a split second after the laser hits you, but problem is that the laser is barely a square inch and so it hits for over and over and over and over. I have cried. I almost threw up one time. But the results are fantastic. No hair---no ingrowns---for at least 2 months between treatments. When it does start to grow in, there's no rush bc the hair is very fine (and light, even!). There are a lot of factors at play...how hairy you are, your hair color, your skin color. I am light/medium, black hair, and I was a BEAST down there. I've been doing this for 2 years, and so it took a while to get to this point....much longer than most. Now I have baby smooth, blemish-free, scar-free skin down there....I can wear any swimsuit or shorts that I want!! The center that I go to is lovely, very professional, very affordable, and most importantly they use the laser that should be used for non-white skin.

If she cared about her reputation and her patients, she should have asked that you come back for a follow up. She should have also offered to touch up any errors or asymmetry (not necessarily the need for more filler) free of charge.

Oh yeah...there was pain. There are def some sensitive spots...like over the tendons going into the groin...and I my body would literally jump off the table. But overall, it was just a really annoying rubberband-snapping sensation.

My hair took 3-4 months to grow back ONLY AFTER I had completed 5 treatments. I should have gone for more. Fast forward 1 year later to now, I've made the decision to go longer. Now instead of just the bikini, I'm getting the brazilian/lower belly/inner thighs treated. I'm going to do this right, and I'm just going to have to cough up the change to make it happen. Without the treatment, the hyperpigmentation (from old ingrowns) is just way too embarrassing to leave to my own devices.

My skins itches like heck about 2-3 days after each treatment. My skin is almost raised like hives. It only lasts about a week, but then it goes away. I showed it to my derm, but she assured me there was nothing to worry about.