Hey I get it done- have been for quite a while. Ive had around 6 treatments on my lower legs so far
With the pain thing, its different for everyone and also where they are doing it. Me personally I take pain quite well and have been told by the beautitians that I hack it really well. So they use a higher power on me.
Dont do it if you have fair hair because it doesnt work.
The reason i get it done is because I have dark, thick hair and I used to get heaps of ingrowns on my lower legs, and now that ive been having laser on them, the hair grows back heaps lighter, i get NO ingrowns and I only have to shave around once every 2 weeks (previously every 2-3 days).
Ur hair grows in cycles so they ask you to come back to do a treatment every time a new 'batch' of hair grows thru. After about 8 or so treatments you usually dont need anymore for a very long time.
They use this laser plastic gun sorta thing to do it, and just put it on ur skin and press the button, its very bright and sort of stings a bit, but as i said, pain is different for everyone. They also use a cooler pad because ur skin gets hot from it after a while. If you ask them to use that cooler thing heaps, it ends up numbing ur skin a bit and u hardly feel anything at all.
I would definately recommend it, but shop around for the cheapest places coz they pretty much all do the same thing anyway. I will probably start getting other areas on my body done soon.
oh and i should add- u prob shouldnt start a complete treatment unless u have the money to do it, it can get pretty expensive in the end, especially if u are getting large areas done like legs, arms, etc. but i guess it wouldnt be too bad considering each treatment is every 4-7 weeks or so.
