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Awww, thanks, Malena!
I find it hard to wax men because: where do you stop?! There is also a technique for waxing (which will address where to stop on men)...I'll post tips after this one about

MY LASER HAIR REMOVAL ESSPERIENCE...

Background: Before getting treatments I was waxed regularly under the arms, and in the "nether regions", including "flower petals." (I can be extremely clinical but I felt like being more gentle with my descriptions!)

I did the recommended 6 treatments, each about 3 months apart, plus a 7th free treatment. A note about my pain threshold: I've gotten pierced, have 5 tattooes (one of which required me to go back the next day to get inked for another 5 hours!), had cosmetic surgery, and taken 3 Suhaila Weeklong workshops! Laser hair removal hurt the most (think Steve Carell screaming in "40 Year Old Virgin")!

To describe the sensation... you're in a room that is about 60 degrees fahrenheit, you're naked and you're getting continually snapped with a thick wet, electrified rubber band. If the hairs are thicker, like they are in your hooha, they have to intensify the power even more. Afterwards, you suffer what is basically a really bad sunburn and you feel that burn for a few hours after. And for those considering getting it done EVerywhere, I had laser treatment everywhere I had been waxed, which included the "flower petals."

About 1 year after that, the hair started to grow back. Granted, not as nearly dense as before, but it did grow back. Areas that had been waxed regularly are not growing back as thick (I might get like, one nuclear hair growing out of my armpit), but the areas where hair was the thickest is back.

You cannot stop hair from going through its anagen, catagen, and telogen phases, unless you have alopecia or some such lack of hair follicle/root condition. Hair continues to grow on cadavers. I still have discolouration where I was "burned" and it even looked worse than having hair down there so I would say for me it was not worth the money, no matter how nice the lobby or staff were. And it's so expensive. For it to really target the hair, it has to be quite dark, too, because the laser seeks the melanin in the hair follicle.

I go back to waxing the "flower petals" (though my lady is in Philly so I have to find someone I feel comfortable with here *whimper*) and haven't had to do the armpits yet. I tweeze my eyebrows or sometimes wax if I feel like buying the product. I bleach the Grouch Marx. When I'm in the mood I very subtley bleach the eyebrows to open up the eye area more (but this is a makeup topic so I'll shush).