Hi! I know you had your stomach lasered, I had mine done today while doing bikini. Gentlelase 18mm, 16j. She did my “happy trail” and on my right side hit me like 5 times on peah fuzz hair!! I kept saying stop- I don’t have hair there…it’s fuzz that no one would notice! Now i am freaked that I will have hair there since they should never touch peach fuzz!! She says, no it’s your hormones that produce hair, nnot laser. Should I be worried? I’m pissed! I said every time stop- your not hitting the happy trail! She had 10 years, but acts like no biggie. ??? i don’t want a hairy stomach!
I think you’ll be ok. I didn’t notice any more hair developing on this area or the hair becoming darker when some spots with finer hair were hit. However, do discuss it with her before the next treatment and make sure that she understands that you only want the very middle with very coarse hair treated, even if she doesn’t think it’s necessary to be that careful. You’re paying so they should be doing what you ask, including not treating an area that you don’t want treated.
Do you actually have dark coarse hair on the stomach at all? Maybe better to just leave it for electrolysis altogether?
thanks! I have dark hair skin II. I don’t know how course it is. It’s not baby hair or fine like my stomach…which is blonde hair! Also, when the hair kept getting thinner after each treatment, did you worry that it was too fine to kill. Mine is coming back VERY thin in most spots. It’s good, but it makes me feel that electro will be more than I thought. How soon after laser did you start? Are you finding it’s taking a year to clear with that finer hair too? thanks!!!
I only had 4 treatments on my stomach I believe. The hair there was dark, but mostly fine. It got rid of most of the darker more coarse hair right in the middle, but didn’t do anything for the rest. So that’s when I switched to electrolysis for this area. Laser really only works best on dark coarse hair.
I just got done with my stomach. It took probably around a year and a half of electrolysis, but it’s hard to say because I was also getting electrolysis on my eyebrows, upper lip, and finishing up underarms and bikini after laser at the same time. So we didn’t always get everything on each area during each session, which I didn’t mind. There were a lot of fine hairs to treat on the stomach area. I’m very happy with the results at this point. I don’t worry about any of those areas at all now. They’re basically all clear.
Thanks for the reply’s! Did you do only thermolysis or micro? My area, as affluent as it is, does not offer much for computerized electro’s. I believe i have a good one. She is doing the darker parts of my bikini where the laser has to be turned down… It is growing in fine, so we hopefully will catch the hairs in anagen. Did your bikini area respond pretty quickly to electro after laser?
I was treated with microflash on an Apilus machine. The remaining hairs were fine, so they responded well. Just make sure to go on time.
What do you mean your area doesn’t offer much for computerized electrologists?
they mostly use the old Proteus (sp?). I found one who has an Instatron Elite Spectrum and I don’t feel her plucking and it is not painful w/ L-max. No one here has an Apilus! No one! They prefer to “do the work themselves, not ahve the machine tell them…or those new machines are for the new girls who don;t know what they’re doing”. Dreadful. If anyone could reccommend someone great in South Florida (West Palm to Deerfield it would be great) Howevver, I trust the person I have chosen will get the job done…but a back-up would be nice!
Try giving Judy Adams a call. She’s in St Augustine and may have some recommendations for you since she’s been in the industry for a while.