4th treatment – sort of!?

I went to get my fourth treatment on my arms this week.
But before we got started I mentioned that lately the hairs on my arms are growing more rapidly than usual. My hair is really fine and not really noticeable to anyone but myself but thought I would mention it.

They mentioned before during the six week period you may need to shave a couple times, but I would barely even need to shave once. So this was a good sign. But in the past weeks leading to my next treatment once I shave the hairs are immediately coming back.

As I mentioned this to Nadia (my favourite) seemed worried. I didn’t think it was a big deal, but then it made sense. If my hair is constantly growing that means the laser isn’t attacking the root. But because my skin tone is darker, the laser dosage is hard to define; there can be Asian girls who are so pale they can go on the lowest setting and come out perfect.

So they decided to give me a patch test using a higher dosage on a couple of areas on my arms, which means they would postpone my treatment to another six weeks to see how I have reacted to a higher temperature. I only had eight zaps (four on each arm) and it stung like hell!! I was already starting to go red.

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So after all this fiasco, I thought I would mention my pigmentation problem. As I showed Nadia and another woman they said it was pigmentation and the other woman said it may have been caused from sun exposure, but I never have exposed my legs outside, I only really wear shorts when I go to bed. Then they were puzzled and said they can never tell when it will happen. I asked if it was because it upped the anti of the temperature but she said that wouldn’t have really made a difference. It may be because of my skin tone as it is hard to define. And the main reason I was doing this was because it was an opportunity for darker toned people.

I said it was worse but had lightened up to an extent. She gave me some skin lightening cream, which I apply twice a day and I should expect to notice results within a couple of weeks. I asked if it looked as though it would completely go away and she said yes but it is a long process, it can take up to six months. *

But she said I couldn’t have treatment on the area in case, well basically so I don’t awaken the angry beast of my pigmentation and have it torment me further. So I have to wait until it pretty goes away before I can have further treatment – so much for my do my legs every six weeks and have them down faster plan!


* gulp, cry, sniffle