Silk'n Silk'n Laser

I have been using my Silk’n laser for about five months now.  All in all I think I’ve completed four full treatments on my leg and bikini line area.  I tend to do one full leg one week and then my other leg or bikini line the following week.  I don’t have a rigid routine because I don’t have time.

I’m on my second replacement bulb which I bought on offer about a month ago.  So I’ve used four bulbs in total since using the Silk’n.   I’ve been storing my silk’n in my wardrobe and using it about once a month properly.  I’m very lazy in my beauty routine so will admit to being slightly less enthusiastic at spending 15 minutes Zapping my legs and bikini line.  However for the sake of being hair free I have persisted.

On the whole the results are quite promising.  My left leg, (for some reason) is far less hairy than my right leg.  Maybe I did that leg twice by mistake.  On average I would say that at least 50% of the hairs on my leg had two hairs that came out from one follicle.  I know that’s not actually the case but the pattern of hair on my legs appeared to be in pairs.  This has stopped altogether.  The density of hair on my legs is far less than about six months ago.  The only way I can give some sort of evidence for this is with the amount of razors I buy.  I normally go through one packet of intuition a month.  That is a replacement pack of three razor cartridges.  Intuition razors are the ones with the soap surrounding the razor.

Anyway, for the last two months I have only gone through two cartridges in two months.  So that’s four cartridges less than I normally use over two months.

I’ve tried to avoid using my Philips epilator because I wanted to give the silk’n a good chance at working.  However now that the hair is much lighter and finer and some of it has even gone I think I will use my very new and shiny Philips epilator just to have a break from shaving.  My epilator is very new and shiny because it was far too painful to use before, even with the picnic icepack that I used to press against the skin before using.

All in all I would say that the silk’n requires commitment and is the perfect opportunity to remove unwanted hair in the comfort of my own home at minimal expense.  I know new products are coming out all of the time so I’m glad I’ve bought mine when I did so that I can have the benefits of being hair free before others did.

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.