Question for guys: Hair removal POLL

[Bandito]

waxing for now but i am saving money to get laser done pretty soon!

anyone here have any comments about laser? or know anyone who got laser done?
i just dont wanna waste my money on treatments and then see the hair comin back ?

 

[HansNZ]

My best friend is one hairy bastard!

He doesn't want to shave (rough feel) or wax (pain) because he doesn't like that plasticy shaved/waxed look - and I agree with him. The way he fixes the problem is to clipper his hair so that it is a shorter length and then he uses a body hair bleach on it.

This gets an excellent result. He still looks like a guy and avoids that waxed look, yet at the same time he doesn't look like a gorilla now. I think this is an excellent solution.

 

[benchmonster]

I have tried everything for my back. I am not a bodybuilder, so I don' t care if I have hair everywhere else (which I do) but back hair is something I cannot handle, even married and old, like I am.

I can say that for me at least:

Epilstop - doesn't work, unless you want a nasty chemical burn. I think it might actually make hair grow.

Nair - See the wonderful Epilstop results

Waxing/sugering - works, but hurts like a bastard. I consider myself to be pretty tough, but when you think about how much square footage is on the back of a 220+ lber, you are talking a long time to be in intense pain. But worth it, if you can get someone to do it.

Shaving - this has become my method of choice. My wife does a shitty job, and cuts me to hell every time we do this, but I can't reach it myself, so I suffer through it. Works great for a few days. I now only shave it before I go to the lake, or before a powerlifting meet where I will be shirtless a lot. Just too much trouble otherwise.

Any ideas on permanent back hair removal would be appreciated. I am not thinking that back hair will become fashionable any time soon. I would just as soon it went away and stayed away.

B.

 

[b fold the truth]

Heavy Duck tape???

B True

 

[jboy]

I tried Enleve last week. I have to say it worked well. It didn't burn like Nair (nair fries me!), but it worked about the same. The trick is to put it on thick and leave it on for 12-15 minutes (instructions say 7-10). The biggest drawback is the price. One bottle will do my back, shoulders, chest, and abs only once. At $20 a pop, that's expensive hair removal. I'm thinking about giving it a chance for 6 weeks to see if the claims of stopping re-growth are true. I have my doubts about that.

 

[Fatty4You]

I tried removing hair from my body for about 5 years. I hated my hair. I had dreams about it and how much i hated it so finally one day i started shaving it all - legs, chest, stomach. I got MASSIVE ingrown hairs. I have been trying to get better over the years, but nothing is very satisfactory:

SHaving
- ingrown hairs every where, burning sensation, super quick regrow

Epilator
- Could only stand the pain on my lower legs and outer upper legs. Anything too close to inner thigh was like HELL for pain!

Sugaring
- Total crap! didn't work. My hair can't be fooled into coming out that easy

Home Waxing
- I go through the whole kit in about 5 minutes and it doesn't work very well.


I gave up!!! There is nothing that works well. I am hairy now. And the worst part is the back hair!! I feel like an animal... in a bad way. I cant take my shirt off, i can't go swimming. I am so afraid of people seeing it. I used to have a gf that would epilator it for me, but without her I can't reach it.

I hope to get Laser in the future, but it is sooo damn expensive and the results vary a lot from person to person.

DAMNIT , i HATE HAIR!!!

-Fatty

 

[leatherface]

heh, just curious, what EXACTLY are ingrown hairs? Stupid question, but ya

 

[Fatty4You]

heh, just curious, what EXACTLY are ingrown hairs? Stupid question, but ya

An ingrown hair is basically when the hair starts to grow back, but instead of coming out through the hole in the skin, it misses the hole and starts to grow off to the side, under the surface of the skin. Sometime you can see hairs that are ingrown that have been there for a while. They look like thin black lines under the skin. And they can cause scaring. I try to pick them out. Sometimes they create a white-head and you can squeeze them out. Either way, they get irritated mostly and aren't fun.

-Fatty

 

[gonelifting]

What little I`ve heard about the lasers is you still have to do them a few times in the same place to to regrowth, but they say it comes back less and less each time.
Is that what you guys hear? and this was for women`s faces where there is`nt really that much to begin with and is`nt even that coarse.

 

[Fatty4You]

What little I`ve heard about the lasers is you still have to do them a few times in the same place to to regrowth, but they say it comes back less and less each time.
Is that what you guys hear? and this was for women`s faces where there is`nt really that much to begin with and is`nt even that coarse.

Here is a great web site for hair removal:

http://www.hairfacts.com/

It give the lo-down on all the different hair removal efforts. For laser, if i remember correctly, it says that it works best on light skined people with dark hair. THe laser attacks the pigment containing elements [hair] so it should be avoided if you have dark skin with lots of pigment.

And the results vary from person to person. But i think overall, people say that there is long term "hair reduction" but i dont know how many people have full hair removal over long term.

-Fatty