Laura T.
I’m on week 3, no results yet! Plenty of ingrown hairs, though!
Product arrived well packaged, and in perfect condition. I’ve used it twice so far and aside from far more ingrown hairs than I have ever had before, I haven’t really seen any kind of reduction in hair as yet. This is a bit of an annoyance for me as I’ve got thick, dark hair and several hairs per follicle, which had reduced down to barely anything with a previous IPL device. The good news is that it is pain free. My old one felt like an elastic band snapping on my skin and was too painful to use on sensitive areas. Things I don’t like: I can’t find a way to increase the strength, only to slow down the speed of the flashes. When I have it on automatic mode and move it away from my skin, the light on the top goes red, but when I go to put it back, it flashes a good inch or two from the connection with my skin, which is blinding, even with sunglasses on. No ability to change the strength, where my old one had 5 strengths and therefore I knew it was doing something when it got to the painful level 5 and reduction of hair was visible! The company state that 500 flashes should cover the entire process each week, but with the window of light so small, it’s a time consuming process and definitely uses more than 500 flashes for my (31 inch long) legs alone. I’m persevering with it and hoping that it will begin to show some visible results in the next couple of weeks of doing it. Meanwhile I will struggle on with daily exfoliation/shaving and glycolic acid/BHA’s to try and get on top of the ingrowing hairs!