Women are still lining up for laser hair removal at the numerous hair removal centers that seemed to have popped up in the last five or so years, but what’s a little worriesome is all the bad reviews I’ve seen on this very expensive, and often very painful, treatment. Sure, I’d love to never have to worry about shaving for the rest of my life either, just like most other women, and I hate the fact that we have to be subjected to shaving all of our body hair off except for the places it’s considered “ok” for a woman to have body hair.
who made up the rule now that we also have to shave our bikini area? Not that I like the look of the seventies “down there” area, mind you, but I’m kind of mad that the new trend is just adding more to our already burdensome grooming duties every day as women. Laser hair removal became very popular probably about ten years ago. You practically can’t read a beauty magazine or look online at any beauty related website without seeing refernces to it because it is such a popular process.
However, doing a full course of laser hair removal will cost you a pretty penny. Some women with thick and plentiful body hair who choose a whole body treatment go for several months usually in shifts to get the hair zapped, and can spend up to ten thousand dollars! I don’t know about you, but I don’t have that kind of money laying around, so lots of women are skimping on other things just to get this done, or they are lucky enough to be in the upper economic echelon that can afford this sort of stuff without jeopardizing the mortgage.
There are some great alternatives to laer hair removal though. They cost a fraction of the price, and also dramatically cut down on shave time. In fact, my favorite permanent hair removal product, Ultra Hair Away, can even cut your shaving down to virtually never when it’s used over a period of time because it damages the root and your hair actually begins to die on it’s own after a while. Of course it instantly starts to work the first time you use it, and you’ll have weeks of shave free legs, or whatever other body part you want to remove hair from.
There are also some great epilators, which are little devices that you glide over your legs as if you are shaving and it actually pulls the hairs out mechanically, but with minimal discomfort if you use them as directed and pull the skin tight when you are doing each area. I actually like the permanent hair removal cream better because it is painless, and unfortunately the epilators are good, but they are very time consuming to use in my opinion.
