Gone Tomorrow (Hair Today, Part Deux) - 09/18/07 05:50 PM
At last, at long last, I have undergone a full-face laser hair removal session! Two sessions, in fact, but the first time was only my upper lip.
With my job still going overall pretty well, beard shadow was still a frustrating problem, despite my using an epilator on my poor widdle face every day, and Connie's touch-ups with tweezers. The cheap fluorescent bulbs at work are like beard X-rays. Beard removal could be put off no more.
I got a free consultation to see about getting my upper lip lasered. But getting full-face treatments had gotten much more affordable, at only $135 per session instead of ~$400 as I'd seen just a year or two ago. So, I got one upper lip treatment, around four weeks ago, and yesterday afternoon, my first full face session. Yay!
It hurt a little, but it's definitely tolerable. Each zap (they're about the size of the hole in a CD) felt like a little cluster of needles poking into my skin for a split second. It's just like electrolysis except more hairs at once.
The hairs slowly fall out over a week or two as they push up to the surface, so you continue shaving. They stop growing after getting zapped (die, fuckers), so this process is a little slower than actual growth.
My results were really pretty good. Twelve days or so after my first treatment, the hairs in my upper lip had finally come out, and I had almost no shadow there for a week or two. Rock. Out.
I don't know if laser will indeed turn out to be truly permanent, but I imagine it will. In the meantime, I'ma get three or four more full face treatments and get the rest cleaned up with electrolysis. Then it's no more shaving, or plucking, or anything, ever again. Right?
Connie says (and I agree) that once the shadow is gone I'll never even be suspected ever again unless I'm trying to.
I'm already passing even better than I was. It's nice to be treated like a human being for once. I could get to like it.
Hi Milla. So that's where you've been.
I can hardly wait not to shave again too. I also have a Epirip-356, I mean Epilator or 2. Mean things but they get the job done.
Posted by Anonymous at September 21, 2007 10:40 PM
Gone Tomorrow (Hair Today, Part Deux) - 09/18/07 05:50 PM
At last, at long last, I have undergone a full-face laser hair removal session! Two sessions, in fact, but the first time was only my upper lip.
With my job still going overall pretty well, beard shadow was still a frustrating problem, despite my using an epilator on my poor widdle face every day, and Connie's touch-ups with tweezers. The cheap fluorescent bulbs at work are like beard X-rays. Beard removal could be put off no more.
I got a free consultation to see about getting my upper lip lasered. But getting full-face treatments had gotten much more affordable, at only $135 per session instead of ~$400 as I'd seen just a year or two ago. So, I got one upper lip treatment, around four weeks ago, and yesterday afternoon, my first full face session. Yay!
It hurt a little, but it's definitely tolerable. Each zap (they're about the size of the hole in a CD) felt like a little cluster of needles poking into my skin for a split second. It's just like electrolysis except more hairs at once.
The hairs slowly fall out over a week or two as they push up to the surface, so you continue shaving. They stop growing after getting zapped (die, fuckers), so this process is a little slower than actual growth.
My results were really pretty good. Twelve days or so after my first treatment, the hairs in my upper lip had finally come out, and I had almost no shadow there for a week or two. Rock. Out.
I don't know if laser will indeed turn out to be truly permanent, but I imagine it will. In the meantime, I'ma get three or four more full face treatments and get the rest cleaned up with electrolysis. Then it's no more shaving, or plucking, or anything, ever again. Right?
Connie says (and I agree) that once the shadow is gone I'll never even be suspected ever again unless I'm trying to.
I'm already passing even better than I was. It's nice to be treated like a human being for once. I could get to like it.
Posted in epilation by Milla | Comments (5)
That's awesome! I look forward to when you don't need to worry about passing because you're just being you.
I guess you've already heard about Lana Wachowski?
Posted by patita at September 21, 2007 02:09 PM
Hi Patita.. how have you been?? No I hadn't heard anything recently, but it looks like it was all a hoax anyway. (Allegedly. =)
Posted by Milla at September 21, 2007 05:40 PM
Hi Milla. So that's where you've been.
I can hardly wait not to shave again too. I also have a Epirip-356, I mean Epilator or 2. Mean things but they get the job done.
Posted by Anonymous at September 21, 2007 10:40 PM
I love it when you're happy! Go, Milla!
Posted by That Queer Chick at September 22, 2007 06:42 PM
Hullo, Milla. Congratulations (belatedly) on the laser sessions! I'm glad they went well.
Posted by Anonymous at September 27, 2007 11:09 PM