First treatment

I went in for my first treatment on October 8th.

The first treatment was at 24 power units and took around 15 minutes.

The technician had a trainee with her and some of the conversation got a little "interesting". They were describing the effects on my skin to the low laser power and at one point exclaiming "OOO, that follicle exploded!" and the like.

The actual treatment didn't really redden my skin any and the actual laser pulse felt and sounded more like small electric shocks than the "slap of a rubber band" feeling I've seen described elsewhere.

The technician surprised me when she asked if I wanted my "monobrow" zapped too. She handed me some lead eye covers and proceeded to treat the area between my eyebrows. At first brush this seemed fine, but in retrospect, putting a laser that close to your eyes probably isn't worth the risk since laser energy can move through tissue and this is 1-2CM from my eyes.

The technician went in a grid pattern over my lip, chin, cheeks, neck and sideburns. There was a small smell of burning hair, but nothing too bad at this level.

After the treatment they wiped off the aloe cooling gel and that was the end of that. The laser itself has a water cooled tip at the surface that is being treated (laser operates at point blank range against the skin and is operating via a foot petal for each "zap).


Here is my photo before the before the first treatment. This is about an hour after shaving.