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i had laser done a few different time... i have used 3 different machines and there is a great difference between them. After the first two laser didnt work AT ALL i did a lot of research to find out that If you want to have permanent results look for Light sheer diode which is the only permanent laser on the market today. I had 6 treatment with Alex and everything grew right back and then i had 3 treatments with Light sheer and everything is gone, i swear by this laser. Also also take interest in what setting are used, as higher power will give you better results.
I will metion that a lady who did my laser refused to zap my face! Apparantly there was a study done claiming that 90% of women with hornmonal imbalaces will develope more facial hair as a result. So unless you have a really thick male beard i wouldt risk it...
good luck..
but i feel your pain girls... i wasted a few thousand on lasers and electrolysis that didnt work, very much sucks
Laser definately reduced hair in my legs, underarms and bikini line but not all together. I must have had about 6-8 treatments on each. The hair on the back of my legs they would not do, saying it was hormonal hair and laser would not help. I assume facial hair caused by hormonal imbalance would be the same, so never bothered with my moustache,
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Laser definately reduced hair in my legs, underarms and bikini line but not all together. I must have had about 6-8 treatments on each. The hair on the back of my legs they would not do, saying it was hormonal hair and laser would not help. I assume facial hair caused by hormonal imbalance would be the same, so never bothered with my moustache,
Interesting. All leg hair is hormonally influenced -- even bikini line and underarm hair is under hormonal influence. However I think what they were probably getting at was that hair on the back of the legs -- and indeed on the face -- is a probable indication of a hormonal balance likely to lead to rapid regrowth of male-type hair.
You can get your moustache treated by laser, but for the treatment to last any length of time you'd need to get your hormones into the range that's normal for females. Your natural hormone balance gives you a moustache and that won't change, but if you can shift your natural hormone balance to within the normal "female" range and keep it there, then laser treatment will give long-term removal of your moustache.
I will metion that a lady who did my laser refused to zap my face! Apparantly there was a study done claiming that 90% of women with hornmonal imbalaces will develope more facial hair as a result.
I haven't seen the study -- but sometimes sorting out cause and effect can be very difficult. I have heard that in some instances it does seem that laser has increased growth; however it might equally be in at least some instances that the growth would have increased anyway.
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So unless you have a really thick male beard i wouldt risk it...
I'll admit to having a beard. And I'll admit that I've got beard growth that's as heavy as that of many males. And certainly my DH and kids (and I) will refer readily to my "moustache" and my "beard". For me, because of my natural hormonal balance, it's as natural to have moustache and beard growth as it is for a male to have it. However I'm very emphatically female -- I'm a very heterosexual wife and I'm a mother! The most I'll admit to is male-type moustache and beard growth. :-)
For myself the answer is to shave, because I'm no longer worried by my hormone balance and without changing it laser wouldn't have a lasting effect anyway. In any case I've now been shaving for most of my life and it's simply part of my eveyrday activities, just like cleaning my teeth.
I tried laser twice--back in the early 90s, I think it was pretty new, and didn't work--and again about 4 years ago. I LOVED the results, but they didn't last long. After almost a year of treatments, (and then about 6 months of feeling great and confident b/c I wasn't shaving my face daily, it was maybe once a week), it started to grow back again. The problem was my hormones had gotten out of whack, so the $1500+ I spent went down the tubes. That's expensive for only about 6 months of happiness. So I probably won't be doing that again, unless my hormones are balanced again, and I win the lottery!!!
After almost a year of treatments, (and then about 6 months of feeling great and confident b/c I wasn't shaving my face daily, it was maybe once a week), it started to grow back again. The problem was my hormones had gotten out of whack, so the $1500+ I spent went down the tubes. That's expensive for only about 6 months of happiness.
The difficulty is that so many women see the hair as the problem. Understandably, because that's what's visible, and, in the case of facial hair, what they see as striking at their very identity as female, because moustache and beard growth is (wrongly!) thought of as exclusively male.
The hair growth, however, is the result of an underlying hormonal variation from the normal and unless that is brought to within the normal female range, then the moustache and beard growth will return even after laser.
LHR clinics should be compelled to explain clearly that they cannot provide any guarantee or expectation of lasting hair removal of hormonally-driven hair growth unless the hormone balance is kept within the normal female range at all times and that ongoing hormonal treatment may be necessary to achieve that.
Laser Hair Removal - Failure 
