You know I get waxed, I put a post up about it a while ago, and I get waxed every two months (it used to be every 4 weeks). Now I know most girls who get waxed only need it done about once every 3 months.
Well I’ve decided that I’ve had enough of the pain and suffering and repeat visits and I have decided to take the plunge into IPL Land. Over the coming weeks expect to hear stories about really loud machines, ow-ies not being able to expose ‘certain areas’ to sunlight and relief at the end of it as I never again have to get ‘certain areas’ waxed.
There’s only one thing that stands in the way….. Cost.. It’s expensive. Who’d have thought that something like unwanted body hair could spawn a multi-billion dollar industry, but there you go. Fortunately though the place I’m going to in Perth , WA (Essential Beauty on Hay St.) has a 50% off offer on this stuff. I took this as my queue….
Consult
I had my ‘consult’ today. Basically it revolved around being told some of the limitations of the IPL technology. Firstly if you have dark or heavily tanned skin, then IPL will not be particularly effective for you requiring more visits to the beautician and more expense. It also does not work very well on fair haired people, fortunately my genetic code lends itself to dark roughage mixed with a degree of dug-inned-ness that the Nazi Germany couldn’t achieve. I’m a prime candidate so for the interests of medical science I will record what happens on my blog.
Amongst the other stuff I learned today were that you have to shave the area to be IPL’d you can’t use depilatory creams, and you can not wax the area either. This fills me with an itching dread I know only too well. It also takes about 4-6 visits to complete the job, this is because at any point in time there are only around 30% of your hair follicles growing or active. So in order to really nuke em all you need numerous visits.
The first proper session is on Saturday and apparently it will take about an hour to complete. We’ll see!
Oh yes before I go, I have decided to add in a ‘What I’m listening to’ bit at the bottom of each post starting with this one. Feel free to comment on my poor/good/excellent tastes in music which I’m sure you’ll find rather eclectic.
Today I’m listening to:
Live With Me by Massive Attack
Very interesting site… I wish I could build one like yours!nancy
I’m interested to know how much it cost you (with 50% off) and where you got it done. I’m in Perth too. Was it effective?
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
Always glad to have another reader. pull up a seat have a coffee! I promise to be better at posting (honest)!