Permanent Hair Removal - Facial Hair

[Fluidic Kimbo]

Stubbly facial hair is cool from about 15 - 25. After that it just makes you look older and unclean.

I'm in my 30's now but if I'm clean-shaven and use a little moisturiser I can probably pass for mid-to-late 20's.

I actually have a foot-long goatee beard (total surface area on skin is only about 1 - 2 square inches) and I keep the rest of my face bare.

If I go 3 days without shaving, I can still whip a razor blade over my face, but for my moustache it has to be a very new blade otherwise it's like jabbing at my skin. Those single and double-bladded razors are horrible on my moustache -- I need tripple blades. After a week I'd use an electric trimmer (or scissors) first.

So anyway I'm half-considering getting permanent laser hair removal on my face, starting just with my moustache to see what it's like before I'd do my entire face.

I can see a few advantages:
(1) Looking younger and fresher because you never have stubble
(2) The convenience of not having to shave
(3) Your partner not being reluctant to kiss you because you won't give them sandpaper herpes on their face
(4) Never buying or using razors ever again (although any money saved will probably be greatly outweighed by the price of the laser procedure)

Of course the downside is that if you ever want to grow a beard in the future, you won't be able to.

Point No. 3 can be a big one if your significant other has particularly supple skin.

Has anyone here had laser facial hair removal, or is considering it?

[Honkey_Kong]

An ex of mine had laser hair removal done. She had to get multiple treatments done to get it all and after a while, it started to come back some (albeit it thinner than before) and she needed to get more treatments..

[redz]

I don’t think this will work well. I would t risk it plus who wants to look like a boy?

[Fluidic Kimbo]

I don’t think this will work well. I would t risk it plus who wants to look like a boy?

When you get to 50, facial hair makes you look 60, and being clean-shaven makes you look 40.

I fucking hate when I have stubble, it looks twice as unclean if it's stubble around a goatee.

[Honkey_Kong]

When you get to 50, facial hair makes you look 60, and being clean-shaven makes you look 40.

I fucking hate when I have stubble, it looks twice as unclean if it's stubble around a goatee.

Why don't you just shave in the morning after you shower like normal people do?

[Test Monsterone]

I actually own a commercial laser and ran a laser spa for a few years before the pandemic. I’ve used the laser on others and had it used on me.

There is no such thing as permanent hair removal, just permanent “reduction.” The best types of lasers for hair removal are the Nd:YAG, and Alexandrite lasers. IPL are not really lasers and don’t work as well - they’re concentrated/filtered light.

We used the laser on one guy's face and it was very painful. Even with 5% prescription topical lidocaine. Multiple treatments are required, and eventually the hair will grow back. I’ve used it myself and had it used on me on my back/shoulders/groin and eventually it all came back.

It’s also very expensive. You can expect to pay upward of $300 for the full face, for one treatment.

I agree with Honkey, why not just shave? A little shadow looks good imo.

[GirlyGymRat]

Had laser hair removal. It’s not inexpensive and areas with need touch ups. Some areas are far more sensitive then others obviously.

Some of my gf went to Muslim cash only salons. Their treatments were much more painful then mine. Apparently Some Muslim women are very hairy so those salons must be turning up knobs. The girlfriends who went there ...hair never grew back or they never went back to finish treatment because it hurt too much.

[GirlyGymRat]

Also, cycling gear makes hair grow....