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Hi everyone! I am an Indian girl,and my skin type is probably IV. I have had 5 treatments with Yag/Coolglide on my face and 2 treatments on my underarms.I have had great results on my underarms so far,probably because the hair was coarse,but I still have a lot of facial hair.I am thinking about switching to Lightsheer.Has anyone had experience with this?Please let me know.What is the highest that I can go without getting burnt?My facial hair is dark and fine.I went to the laser place yesterday,and the technician did a patch test behind my ears using 25j on one side and 30 on the other.Please help,I am very concerned about burning, at the same time,I don't know if its going to be ineffective.

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Hi everyone! I am an Indian girl,and my skin type is probably IV. I have had 5 treatments with Yag/Coolglide on my face and 2 treatments on my underarms.I have had great results on my underarms so far,probably because the hair was coarse,but I still have a lot of facial hair.I am thinking about switching to Lightsheer.Has anyone had experience with this?Please let me know.What is the highest that I can go without getting burnt?My facial hair is dark and fine.I went to the laser place yesterday,and the technician did a patch test behind my ears using 25j on one side and 30 on the other.Please help,I am very concerned about burning, at the same time,I don't know if its going to be ineffective.

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Hi there,
I am also Indian with type 4 skin and am very tempted to start with lightsheer but the very experienced people on this board have strongly cautioned against it at low settings of anything under 30J, and the place I went to only recommends we begin at 18, 19J.
Please share more on your experience with the Cool Glide, what fluence and pulse did they use, are you by any chance in SD?
Thanks!

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if your hair is very fine on your face, electrolysis might be a better option. The only way to find out how high you can go on settings, is to have them do test spots. i wouldn't do laser unless they can use 30 joules and up. preferrably 35-40.

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I have been using the lightsheer diode laser for 7 years now and have had much sucess with indian clients that have course facial hair.. If you hair is dark but fine the laser will not work on the fine hair. If they use the lightsheer diode laser in opti mode the milliseconds of the pulse will be half of what the laser setting is.. the shorter the milliseconds the better to treat finer hair but if the setting is too high you skin can get burned. Fine hair would need alot of heat in the high 30's to 40 range and that would be too high to treat your skin type and might not even prove effective on fine hair. If they use the 30ms setting the milliseconds would be too long to destroy the hair. I agree with the last post that electolysis would be the best way to go. More time consuming but it will give you the results you need without the chance of burning.

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Hi bodybeautiful,
In your several years of experience, what is your opinion on the use of nd: YAG versus lightsheer on light Indian skin patients for coarse dark hair on legs and bikini?
Thanks!

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Hi indiangirl,
I'm a light skinned Indian (type IV) and had electrolysis done on some of my facial hair several years ago. I can tell you that it does work and is permanent. It may seem like it's taking a long time but I'm not sure that it actually is longer. With laser you have to space your treatments by months so the whole process takes a while anyway. With electrolysis though, it does require a weekly commitment of 1 hour or more which can be hard to fit in.
If you're only doing fine hair on your face I would think that electrolysis would be the way to go.