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I am currently undergoing treatments with the Lightsheer and decided I wanted a physician operating the laser for this reason and also because I was worried about being burned. I am sure that there are some spa aestheticians who are very competent with the laser, but you are much more likely to get the best results if you find an MD who is also experienced with laser hair removal. IMHO, laser is much too painful to go through not to get good results!
I am like you in that I feel that laser is a necessity – have fair skin and coarse dark hair that looked like a man’s heavy beard hair and gave me a 5 o’clock shadow look under my arms, even when freshly shaved. I had to shave all these areas every day, and they still looked bad. I’ve had two bikini, lower leg and underarm treatments and so far, I am very pleased. I am about 5 weeks past the 2nd underarm treatment, and the hair there is much much finer and I can go a week or more without shaving. For my underarms, I am paying $250 a treatment, and I may or may not continue as I am happy with my results so far. (I will have to see if more hair starts growing back in over time.) For the lower legs and bikini I was able to purchase a package of 5 treatments for $3300. I see results with the bikini and lower legs, but so far not quite as dramatic as the underarms.
My ultimate goal with this is not necessarily not to shave at all – although that would be great --but the expense, pain and time are well worth it if I get to stop being a slave to the razor …