Yesterday after school, I went with Alli and Emily (and Emily's co-teacher) to get laser hair removal in our armpits. I was nervous all day! I'm just glad I only have 4 more sessions left...
The reason why we wanted to do it was in large part because of the price. Beauty treatments such as laser hair removal are fairly inexpensive in Korea. The total cost for me was 100,000 Won. That's for 5 sessions (typically it takes 5 sessions for the hair to be properly lasered out), but if a few do grow back, you can come back and they will do a touch up for free. Lot's of women seem to do that here, and the armpits are the most popular area of the body. I just found out my co-teacher Mihey has had her's done too. I guess it's a natural thing to do if you're Korean.
The building was nice, which helped ease some of my nerves. When we arrived, we could hear the laser going. It kind of sounded like mosquitoes getting zapped in a bug zapper. That kind of freaked me out. The women offered me numbing cream, but Alli and Emily said it didn't really help because it is an internal pain, not a surface pain. I decided to skip it.
I was led back and laid down. The women shaved my pits for me, kinda awkard. I was pretty nervous, I knew it was going to hurt bad, but had no idea how much. Alli was also back with me while Emily waited in front, so we were talking about nothing to each other waiting for the doctors.
First, they put gel on the area. Two women came and held down my arms above my head, I know they did it to keep me still because I was pretty nervous. The doctor came over and took the gun to me. OOOWWWW! The pain is hard to describe. It felt like getting a shot. But with a hot needle. In your armpit. All over. Really fast. For about 1 minute on each side. I don't think I breathed at all during that minute.
Finally, both arms were done. I thought it would never end. There were some hair follicles that hurt more than the others, but a lot of areas it was so fast it hardly felt like anything. I did shed a few tears at the end, but I didn't scream or cry during. I'll blame the nerves on the relief of having it over and knowing what it would be like for next time.
By the time we got back down to the first floor and out the building, I had no pain. I couldn't believe that practically as soon as they were finished it stopped hurting. I'm just glad that I've only got 4 sessions left over the next 4 months and then I'll be armpit hair free, forever! :)
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ReplyDeleteI think that I was maybe given bad advice with the timing and that I'm fine to stick with doing my underarms and legs at every 12 wks... but who knows! More power to you and to your site! Thank you for sharing this with us!
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What is the name of the clinic? Is it in Seoul?
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ReplyDeleteThe procedure is virtually painless. Some patients have mild discomfort and take pain medication, but compared to other methods, laser hair removal involves less pain.
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