Reno, you need to take what everyone here says with a grain of salt, including the post above. This has been discussed numerous times and I don’t feel like repeating myself. God knows I’ve done it a million times. Why don’t you use the search feature and read through the previous posts?
If you want experiences, use the search feature and read posts by RC2001, hairlessinla, NoHair, etc. They have stopped posting regularly because of people like hairbastard. Noone who is happy with their results cares enough to come and write the same thing over and over, let alone argue with people like hairbastard. This is a forum where people come to find answers before they start treatments or after they didn’t get results at some clinic, a lot of times with a bad laser, bad tech etc (and there are plenty of those, probably the majority) to get answers. If you got results and were happy, would you google a forum, sign up,and start reading and posting? Probably not. You would go on living your hairless (or more likely less hairy) life.
Btw, there haven’t been many people here who received all the information they needed to get the best treatment possible who came back to complain that they didn’t get results a year later. (i.e. alex laser, appropriate settings etc). Most people say they will, but never do. I find it hard to assume those people didn’t get results. Otherwise, I’m almost positive they would be back here to complain.
To answer you question, chest is pretty easy to treat, back is a bit harder, but possible (harder for top of the back), and shoulders are very difficult. Also, any area with hair that is not coarse, dense, and dark is hard to treat, and even harder with areas that are already considered difficult like shoulders and upper arms.
btw, I’m not a man and didn’t treat those areas, and am having a hairless year on those areas I did treat. Laser doesn’t disciminate by gender lines. It sounds like you don’t have expectations of being 100% hairfree after laser, so you would be happy with the reduction you will get. It will be more of a reduction on easier to treat areas too, up to 90%. One thing you can do to know for sure is try one treatments with GentleLASE AFTER reading the FAQs, sampling several clinics, and picking the right one and see what happens. Then you won’t need someone else telling you what will happen. It would be nice if you came back and posted your experience afterwards.
www.hairremovalforum.com/faq.cfm
p.s. hairybastard obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about if he’s suggesting that shoulders are easier to treat than chest hair.