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What happens if you stop going to the monthly IPL hair removal treatments?

memyslf8iDec 2, 2013
I have dark skin of Asian ethnicity and I haven't been going for about 2 months now, I have had 2 treatments of consistent monthly treatments before that. I think the hairs are growing faster than usual however, before the IPL treatments I would use wax hair removal.

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