LadyEllen
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Joined: 6/30/2006 From: Stourport-England Status: offline
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Emla is OK - I used it on many occasions (prescription only here), when I was having facial hair zapped, though the main effect seemed to be to numb my lips rather than to reduce the sting from the laser! The better, easier and cheaper alternative I found was to use icepacks to numb the skin prior to being shot at. Glad to hear Canyoupleaseme tell the world the truth about laser too! "It doesnt hurt" I was told..... yeah, right! Whether it hurts or not depends on where the nerve endings are and how deep the hair goes, which means that in some places its nothing more than a tickle as if a fly had glanced off you, but in other places it stings like fxxk! Imagine one of those occasions when you had sunburn, and inadvertently scratched it hard........ that should give you an idea. Top lip is meant to be the worst on the face, though thats like the mentioned run in with a fly for me and just tickles me up my nose - its the jawline that hurts like hell for me. Also to note is that if you want to use laser removal, then the darker the hairs the better - the killing effect of the laser depends on the hair taking up the released energy, so lighter hairs may not be affected at all. Using laser also means taking care about how dark the skin is too - the laser does not discriminate between dark hair and dark skin and will harm dark skin as much as it does dark hair. E
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