Silk’n review: Part One

Posted by admin on May 20, 2009

Setting up the Silk’n took a matter of seconds. All I did was plug it in, wait for the beep and then started zapping. There’s a 3.5 second wait in between pulses, which was about the right time for me to move the wand from one area to the other. I managed to do my left leg (from the knees down) in about 15 minutes. This was some 4 weeks ago. My lower left leg has now has slightly finer hairs than my right leg, however there is no huge difference as yet.

After the first session I felt no discomfort and carried on with what I had to do. I didn’t see any hairs fall out, but maybe they just came out in the shower without noticing. Although Silk’n state that no eye protection is needed when using the Silk’n I did find that I had to look away when the laser pulse was being emitted.

All I did to prepare my leg before treatment was shave. I did this the night before so that the hair follicles are in their growth phase as recommended by the instructions.

This was the first time that I used the silk’n and I was impressed at how quickly I was able to treat an area and that there is no charging required before use. The first 50 laser pulses are emitted on the lowest setting (number 1), the next 200 pulses are emitted on level 3. Once the device has emitted over 250 pulses you can set the level to number 5. This is what I did. Forthcoming reviews will detail how I get on with more Silk’n sessions.