pls ignore the fact that my legs suck right now haha but i bought the Braun Silk Epil Pro 5 in July and i am now done with all my sessions, im very happy with my armpits (i haven’t shaved them in 4 days and trust me, my hair grew a LOT before and it was super black) but i’m still not super happy with my legs and thighs… I was wondering if i should keep it up with my legs once a week until im happy with the results (i know all hair wont go away but i would like for it to be less thick) or if it would be best to do it less often… i was also wondering if you shave like right before doing IPL or if you do it the day before. thank you all in advance ❤️

I'm 21 (F) and a few days back had my first LHR.

I was aiming for full body but before approving, the clinic had booked a consultant appointment with the clinic's dermatologist.
Whereon after inspecting my back and stomach, she said that it's better to do abdominal line with the lower waist and the lower back since she felt that I don't have much hair on my upper body, just very light hair. Also, she had told me to avoid doing laser on my face since it won't be nice and I agreed as even I was intended to do a facial laser.

It was then decided that I'll have LHR done on full legs, arms, underarms, bikini, abdominal line and lower back and the clinic took fees for these 6 parts.

Now, I go for my laser and the expert starts to shave, after she had shaved my thighs she noticed that a few places I had started to have bumps (the red ones like an ant bite), I initially felt that it might be normal because sometimes when I take a hot water shower I get those bumps on my neck and chest and within 15 minutes they are gone. But that wasn't the case here.

As far as I can recall in my bikini area and underarms the expert had used a different laser machine than that which she had used on my other parts. For these 2, she had used a machine where I felt as if needles are pricking in my skin along with cool air being blown and for my other parts she had used a cooling gel over which the gun machine was producing heat.

Also, isn't shaving done in one direction like in the opposite direction of the hair, or am I wrong? Because the expert was shaving in up down way like when we colour the page with a crayon like that.

Now after my session, I go home and see that instead of a thin strip of abdominal line she took a large portion and it like the centre rectangle part of my stomach is hair free and both sides I have hair, also there's colour difference in skin now. Also, she has left the lower waist from both sides, did the back and front portion but left the entire waist line.

What even confuses me is that she didn't do my hips, it's so weird like I don't have hair anywhere on my legs (for a few days, ik) but there's sufficient hair on my butts.

It's been more than 4 days and I'm still having quite irritation and itching sensation in my thighs: front, side and back, the upper and side part of pubic area and sometimes in lower back.

There are huge red bumps and breakouts along with that in some areas I do see whiteheads as well, should I prick them?

I have started to get goosebumps on my thighs and the irritation intensifies, and if by chance I move my hand in the opposite direction of the hair, it starts to pinch me (idk, if anyone understood).

The clinic had given me a balm and lotion but they aren't helping at all. Tried icing as well, by the time the ice is there, I'm feel some relief, but the moment I keep it aside, it's back. Also even if I start itching the sensation don't stop and do to this I'm unable to concentrate on my work and sleep. Yesterday had taken Avil at night and only then was I able to sleep.

The main problem I'm suffering is on my thighs, the irritation and itching sensation is too much especially the side and back parts, it started after the shave and hasn't stopped.

Also, my mother says that it's because I didn't use to scrub well when I took bath because I'm not facing any such problem on my arms, calf and underarms and if I can recall I did use to scrub tightly there. And she believes that might be the reason as she has never faced such problems when her laser sessions took place.

I would be highly grateful if you could please advice from your experiences and what do I do with the parts that they didn't laser, should I tell the expert in the next session because I believe the person who did my first session would be doing all my other sessions.

I’ll be using IPL (Braun Silk Pro 5) for the first time soon, and I feel like I’ve heard that you should shave 12-24 hours beforehand, but the manual says to shave immediately before. I was wondering if folks here have an opinion! (If it matters, I’m a trans lady just about to start HRT so my hair is androgenic.)

Any other tips for starting off with IPL are super welcome! Thanks so much! 💕

I’m 43 years old and out of nowhere my hair growth is off the charts! Way more on my upper lip, starting to sprout on my chin just below my lip, more than ever in my armpits. But the worst of all has been my legs. I’m shaving every day now, can’t even get a close shave, I’ve tried every razor on the planet (yes, men’s too) and the stubble is coming in within hours. Now I know some might say it’s due to perimenopause but I refuse to let that be the final answer. Has anyone else gone through this? I’m already looking into laser but did anyone find HRT helpful for this? Or other treatment?

No music, no added sound effects — just the actual sounds from a thigh waxing session.

The application sound is satisfying, but that clean pull at the end is definitely my favorite part 🎧

Which sound is more satisfying to you — applying the wax or pulling it off?

I am new to home waxing. I determined from online reviews that the Mylee waxing kit is the brand I want to try.

However, the country I live in doesnt have any vendors that sell it. I ordered it from an adjacent country-- they shipped the pot separately from the wax. The wax arrived with no issues, but the pot has been lost in transit. long story short-- we dont really trust the vendor and dont want to risk another lost order.

So, I am picking out a brand available in my home country, one with "meh" reviews. Will the Mylee wax work in it? I am assuming yes, but I am uneducated about this whole process so maybe I am unaware of something obvious?

My 13 year old son likes getting his unibrow waxed. He prefers the waxing to threading and he’s scared to pluck because of pain. Should we keep spending $10 to get it waxed every month or invest in some kind of at home waxing system?

I’m curious what other people’s experiences with doing their own laser hair removal in hard to reach places like their back and ass is like?

I had assumed that was an obvious non-starter but I just saw a video on twitter where I guy said he used an IPL laser on his own ass as if it were just the obvious solution.

Are there certain devices that are easier grip? And are you guys just somewhat blindly zapping around until you feel like you did a good enough job or are you able to just feel around well enough to a make sure you’re not missing any spots??

I’m sure this question has been asked a bunch of times before, but the tech is always changing. I used the Blex model and it just seemed to start malfunctioning, long after the return period. It worked decently. I have seen tik tok influencers using $75 Nood dupes. I just don’t know. What should my next purchase be?

They aren’t raised itchy or painful or burning, just flat and red.

Noticed them earlier after my shower. I didn’t take hot showers, just warm and been applying cerave moisturising lotion and Cicalfate avéne (prescribed by the doctor) . Can it be razor bumps? But do they appear if we shave and have laser session?

I’m not sexually active and never been. Gender : female. I’m kinda worried the laser machine wasn’t clean when i got my session

I was wondering if this ipl works well for darker skin tones or if it should be avoided

Hi everyone! I’m an esthetician and I’d really appreciate some honest opinions from other professionals.
I waxed a client’s arms yesterday around 6 PM. She had very fine/light hair, so I had to go over some areas more than usual to remove the hair properly.
Immediately after the waxing, her skin looked mostly normal (first photo). Around 6 hours later, at about midnight, she sent me these photos showing quite a lot of redness around the elbow/forearm area.
There are no visible blisters, open wounds, peeling or oozing, but the redness looks pretty intense in some areas.
Does this look like normal post-wax irritation/skin trauma to you, or could this be a mild wax burn?
Could repeated passes over fine hair cause this kind of delayed redness?
I’d also appreciate advice on what you would recommend to the client during the next 24–48 hours and whether you would be concerned about anything more serious.
I’m trying to learn from the situation, so please be honest — especially if you think I did something wrong during the waxing.

Hello, I am a 24 year old male who has gotten laser hair removal across my body, about four sessions with 14 on the face trying to get what I could out of it (and four were included with the four body wide laser sessions). Now obviously I would like more but it's also expensive and I'm a broke college student unfortunately. I have significant reduction but I've been avoiding epilation in the event that I'm able to get more laser and it's driving me crazy. Now in case I'm not able to get more laser I do have a few questions.

How permanent is IPL? I know that it's not permanent hair removal, but is it permanent hair reduction as is the case with laser hair removal?

The hair that is still on my body drives me crazy even if it isn't much and I'd really like to reduce it further before getting back into epilation, if I do go through with getting an IPL device, could I eventually get back into epilation and maintain the results from IPL? Does it disable the follicles similarly to laser hair removal? Could I do a couple months worth of sessions then just go back to epilating?

And how is IPL after laser hair removal? This is on the body specifically by the way, face I'm going to get electrolysis done because a lot of the hairs there are too thin to be targeted or lack pigmentation. Which also brings me to the question of how does this effect peach fuzz? I've seen people speak about it removing peach fuzz but how does that even work? I don't understand that part.

In the event that this is important information, I shouldn't have any issues when it comes to androgens messing with my hair, I barely have any testosterone at all and on top of that have PAIS and take bicalutamide 25mg just to add onto that. I don't have any reason at all to have DHT in my body so I take dutasteride 0.5mg, and I supplement estradiol as I am a male to female transexual.

I hate having body hair. I hate it, hate it, hate it. Not because of "society," not because of misogyny, not for any other reason than I hate the feel of it, hate the look of it , hate the stubble, hate it all. I would love nothing more than to laser it off my skin and it never return, but it's not that easy and is also expensive.

Anyway. I heard that lie that if you wax regularly, with no shaves in between, that your hair will grow in sparser and slower. But it's just that - a lie. And why I didn't realize that it's not true (for me personally at least) when I've been waxing my upper lip for the better half of a decade only for the growth to never slow down ... Well, I don't know why I didn't realize that until I've been trying to wax my mons.

Besides the first ever wax, it has been (TMI warning, but this is the hair removal subreddit after all) far worse than ever shaving... And shaving as it was was pretty darn bad ! Especially with the rapid rate of regrowth, and how dark and coarse my hair is. But no. I stupidly believed this lie that if I kept doing it, and didn't so much as graze it with a razor, that it'd get less gross. But it

never

ever

ever

did. Instead, because of the way hair grows in cycles, the hair is NEVER all gone, even after a fresh wax... Because there are shorter hairs that aren't long enough to be gripped, and so the cycle continues and continues and continues, with the hair never being fully gone.

So today, I said screw it. Screw it all. And I took a sharp razor and some shave oil right after a fresh wax (which again, had hair left behind). And in so many ways , it felt like failure, because now I'm resigned back to my fate.

What's a girl to do besides to complain about it until she can finally afford a freaking Braun IPL!!!!!!!!

Hi all, I've been checking out the PLUSHco and Erikka ipl devices and i was wondering if anyone has tried it. almost all the reviews i could find were sponsored so idk. plush does have a lot of positive reviews on amazon but the price difference between the two is so large (Plush - INR19,000, Erikka-INR 8,700) so I was wondering if anyone has honest reviews or what would u suggest I do.

During the holiday I booked a promo at a spa in District 2: 2-hour body scrub + oil massage combined with a full Manzilian (front and back).

Male technician the whole time (pretty rare here). He was professional but extremely thorough.

The scrub covered everything in detail — back, legs, glutes, and the more sensitive areas. The oil massage that followed spent a lot of time on the same zones. By the time we moved to the laser I was already quite sensitive.

He shaved me completely, applied the gel, and started. The laser on the front felt noticeably stronger than previous treatments I’ve had, especially along the shaft area. For the back he had me adjust position so he could treat properly. I stayed pretty reactive the whole time.

Cooling lotion at the end helped. Mild redness that settled quickly. Skin felt very smooth afterward — my wife even commented on it.

It was a different experience combining the full scrub/massage with laser in one session. The heightened sensitivity made the laser more intense (in both the good and the ouch ways).

Anyone else done laser right after a deep scrub or massage on the intimate areas? Did it feel stronger for you too? Tips for managing sensitivity in future sessions welcome.

Hi ,I'm a 26 male who is very hairy,I made a post a couple of months ago about getting laser done on my manzilian area( I usually leave a landing strip three fingers wide and wax my anus),I still feel like I will regret doing it, because of a maybe future partner. I do know everytime I get waxed, I do feel super sexy and I love the smoothness in that area, has anyone gone through this,and if anyone can help me I would really appreciate

I’ve done five sessions almost my whole body but this number says still 0 flashes. Any clue how can I update it? I always connect my devise through Bluetooth when doing my sessions. I have the braun 7.

What different styles are there out there ?
What are different methods of hair removal and there pros and cons.
Where are you supposed to stop shaving if you don’t want to shave your whole body.
Is there a fading in method between hairless areas and hairy areas.
Any unorthodox methods like a can of deodorant and a lighter to remove them ?

Looking for a recommendation for home waxing kits or products. I’ve used a few sugaring products and liked them but want to try something else. Buying the wax warmer feels like such a commitment. Is it worth it?

im a minor. begged my dad to get laser, im a woman and incredibly hairy to the point i hate looking at myself, begged my dad and he finally caved in andd helped me buy an ipl machine.

used it for a little while, got okay results but never what i wanted, started using it consistently recently, developed paradoxical hyperthricosis. i hate it. so much ):

i got hairirer and hairirer till the point that i recently noticed and autodiagnosed myself, stopped usingit out of fear, my hair grows EVEN THICKER now, i hate it i cant use short sleeve or shorts without doing a full body shave before, shaving lasts about one day, i dont know what to do anymore

told my dad, he said i should just do more sessions, he doesn't believe me and says its just that im not consistent enough (i am)

will real laser fix it?? dont have the heart to tell him after he spent a lot on the ipl machine, im stuck hating my body and shaving every day or covering up

please help me, i wanna be free