HRT does make hair softer and slows down growth, so it makes it much easier to stay on top of things with shaving / epilating / waxing - in most places i've gone from "omg i need full body laser ASAP" to "i seriously don't know if i'd bother with that even if my health insurance covered it". But it doesn't remove hair, so it won't be wasted if you start IPL on areas like your legs.
The thing with IPL is, it doesn't really work on hair with deep roots. It can do a lot on these annoying, hard to reach shins or other places where the hairs do not sit too deeply, but facial and back hair do not fall into that category. You need a real laser or electrolysis for these areas.
Ooh, I forgot about the slowing down. That sounds so nice, I'm very much in the full laser asap camp right now so that amount of reduction/whatever would be amazing. Good to know it wouldn't be a waste to start it, that was one of my concerns about it, especially going somewhere and getting it done professionally.
It took me under a year of HRT to get to that point and 10 sessions of laser to go from "my 5 o clock shadow is trying to murder me again" to "yeah, idk if i want to get the remaining grey hairs on my chin cleaned up with electrolysis when you don't see them anyway and i can just shave them off". ofc it's hard to generalize bc facial and body hair vary sooo much from person to person, but it can get a lot easier with really not that much time.
HRT does make hair softer and slows down growth, so it makes it much easier to stay on top of things with shaving / epilating / waxing - in most places i've gone from "omg i need full body laser ASAP" to "i seriously don't know if i'd bother with that even if my health insurance covered it". But it doesn't remove hair, so it won't be wasted if you start IPL on areas like your legs.
The thing with IPL is, it doesn't really work on hair with deep roots. It can do a lot on these annoying, hard to reach shins or other places where the hairs do not sit too deeply, but facial and back hair do not fall into that category. You need a real laser or electrolysis for these areas.
Ooh, I forgot about the slowing down. That sounds so nice, I'm very much in the full laser asap camp right now so that amount of reduction/whatever would be amazing. Good to know it wouldn't be a waste to start it, that was one of my concerns about it, especially going somewhere and getting it done professionally.
It took me under a year of HRT to get to that point and 10 sessions of laser to go from "my 5 o clock shadow is trying to murder me again" to "yeah, idk if i want to get the remaining grey hairs on my chin cleaned up with electrolysis when you don't see them anyway and i can just shave them off". ofc it's hard to generalize bc facial and body hair vary sooo much from person to person, but it can get a lot easier with really not that much time.