About a year ago my roommate came home all excited and told me how the medi-spa he worked at had just introduced a laser hair removal program into their repertoire. He told me that everyone was raving about it, and that he even tried it on his lower neck area. I had complained to him often of my ingrown hair issue in my bikini area, a problem that had slowly developed after about two years of waxing. As is intended with prolonged waxing treatments, the hair follicle is meant to weaken, and that is exactly what happened to all of my hair down there. The problem came when none of these weakened hairs were strong enough to break through the skin and what resulted was an ingrown hair inferno. It went on for about a year; the old ones turning into scars while the new ones formed, it was never-ending. They would get infected because naturally I would try to remove the hair. I finally decided to give this laser thing a shot, even though I thought it was a bit too radical, and quite frankly, too scary. I scheduled a consultation and asked all sorts of questions about how far the laser penetrates and what the risks were and if laser could do anything about such a severe ingrown hair problem (like, could the laser reach the ingrown hairs, and did the layers of scarring already ruin my chances of having a successful outcome). Fast-forward a little less than a year and I am shocked, not only did the procedures kill all of my hair follicles and prevent any ingrown hairs whatsoever; all of my scarring completely disappeared as well. It took about 7 visits all together and it was worth every penny. If I had waited any longer and continued messing with all of my ingrown hairs everyday, the scarring probably would have been irreversible. I am beyond thrilled, and I can't imagine going in for my weekly waxing visits. This is heaven, no hot wax, no in-growns, no razors, just smooth skin.

- Nancy Kickham