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I keep seeing ya'll posting about settings and different lasers and joules and all this technical stuff. Do you have to let them know what to use or something? I mean shouldn't they know? Please elaborate lol. Thanks!

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I keep seeing ya'll posting about settings and different lasers and joules and all this technical stuff. Do you have to let them know what to use or something? I mean shouldn't they know? Please elaborate lol. Thanks!

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If your laser operator is well trained, he/she will know the correct settings to use. Most professionals don't appreciated second guessing by clients. I wouldn't tell someone to adjust the settings unless you've had problems with the treatments. Of course, you can ask out of curiousity what settings are being used.

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personally, when I'm paying money for something that is a considerably new technology, I would like to make sure myself that whatever they are doing is the most effective for me. Not everyone is like that, but I would hate to spend money on several treatments and then find out I should have been treated at higher settings to achieve results, and that's why I didn't get good results. That makes the whole thing more expensive and last longer.
The least you can do is pick a laser that's best for your skin type to avoid unnecessary side effects in case you pick an unexperienced practitioner unknowingly. If you don't get results, that's not the worst thing. It's good to do research to not get burns, scars, hyperpigmentation etc. And I think in order to be able to judge whether the technician knows what they're doing, you need to know the information yourself. Otherwise, how do you know whether what they are telling you is true? You will just take it as a fact. We see people continuously posting on this forum that their techs tell them to space treatments 4 weeks apart instead of 6-8 and some don't even know that hair is supposed to shed after every treatment.
Settings are not that technically complicated. There is the power in joules and spot size (size of area treated with each laser beam shot). And there are 3 types of laser to choose from. Alexandrite or diode for light skin and Yag for darker skins.