What I love about first time clients is they have a little trepidation, but they are very
excited to see what their hair free journey is going to look like.
So I love that enthusiasm.
I have heard horror stories about laser hair removal.
I’ve heard stories about people getting their face scarred because the person didn’t
know what they were doing.
I'm Mina, I'm 27 years old and I'm getting laser hair removal done today.
I'm Arab, I’m middle eastern, I'm literally a hairy beast.
I am the Chewbacca of laser hair removal.
I'm an on camera reporter, so I shave pretty much every single day or every other day.
I'm wearing dresses, I'm wearing heels, things that are strapless and I cannot have that
on camera, it's just annoying and it's a nuisance.
So in a perfect world, I'd want to get my face done, my arms, my underarms, definitely
my legs, like everywhere, literally everywhere.
My name is Erica Bell and I am a registered nurse at Sev Laser Aesthetics.
I went to Hampton University, which is a historically black University and I decided that I wanted
to come back to California and I wanted to merge my love for beauty and aesthetics.
I became a client at Sev Laser and then the friendly nursing staff found out that I was
a nurse and invited me to apply.
My first time shaving, I think it was in about like sixth grade and I just remember being
in the bathtub and like blood coming out of my leg, which was so gross.
It was so painful and I remember it burning and being like, “Is this what it takes to
be a woman?
I cannot, this is the worse.”
Okay, I have to do laser hair removal.
This is the only other option I have to keep my sanity.
We at Sev Laser believe that everyone's a good candidate for laser hair removal.
Our Laser Technology is very smart and it is the latest technology so
anyone that has hair that I'm is pigmented can get laser hair removal.
Hi!
Hi, I’m nurse Erica.
I’m Mina, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
We recommend that you do not pluck, wax, thread or Nair,
no other forms of hair removal besides shaving, prior to treatment.
During the procedure Mina will feel snaps from the laser.
She'll feel the cool air, which we turn down for the face cause it makes it a little bit more
difficult to breathe during this process, if there's just air blowing in your face.
And then, she’ll also feel a little heat, you never want to feel a lot of heat.
You want it to all kind of be a smooth transition from one zap to the next, one area to the next.
"What is that smell?"
Everyone always asks.
It is called plume. It is the hair follicle burning.
Smells like 4th of July.
When I got to Mina’s face, we wanted to show how bright and beautiful and luminous
her face was.
We did this by contouring her face with laser.
I remove the hair from her hairline to her eyebrows and even around her sideburns as well.
Oh my gosh, it feels so ridiculously smooth.
This is embarrassing but I had this one prickly right here, and it's like totally gone.
It's not even there anymore.
Mina was so excited seeing her first treatment and that's what makes me most happy.
After that first session alone, I felt like my skin was smoother, which isn't why people
go get laser hair removal done, it was just like a very cool side effect.
It’s a little tingly right now.
But it feels so smooth, it feels way smoother.
My least favorite part about the laser hair removal procedure was when I was getting my face done,
my eyes were tearing up, and people were like, “Oh my God. Are you okay? Are you okay?"
The area is sensitive, so my eyes water, but I wasn't dying or like screaming in pain.
I haven't experienced my hair growing back thicker with laser hair removal,
even with my armpits when the hair started to grow back a little,
I looked at it, and this sounds so disgusting and weird,
It just like slid right out, the hair just slid out.
Results vary because hair growth is hormonal, so we recommend clients to come in six weeks
after their first treatment.
The hair will grow in thinner and you'll have less of it.
With laser hair removal, you're at least working towards a goal or if you're investing money
you at least know the hair is either getting thinner or it's not going to come back again
and that is a way better feeling than feeling like you're going to have to be in this weird
purgatory of, you know, paying for waxing for the rest of your life.
When you get laser hair removal, your skin holds on to that heat from the laser for a couple of days.
It's really imperative that you protect that skin, that's why we recommend not adding heat.
No saunas, jacuzzi, intense exercise and of course staying out of the sun.
I'm super excited to get more sessions done to see if the hair is gone forever,
if it really does thin out, how my face feels afterwards.
I’m excited to see what's in store and I'm excited to get more sessions at Sev.
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