Well if you have darker thicker hair than before, that’s good news at least, since laser works best on dark coarse hair. Usually IPL makes the hair finer which makes it hard for a real laser to treat. If you’re light skinned an alexandrite or diode will give way better results than IPL. IPL isn’t the best for hair removal, it’s more for skin treatment. It can be effective if the person knows how to use it properly but still in general, it doesn’t even really compare to a true laser. I had good results I think with the Lumenis One IPL module, but I finished up with alexandrite. Put it this way, if there’s alexandrites, diodes etc available to you, then you have absolutely no reason to do IPL. IPL should be more of a last resort if nothing else is available. There’s no way to test if the laser will work without just doing a test patch but you need many treatments to tell how well it works. We usually suggest starting with a small area like underrms which are usually inexpensive to try out.