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Lain Iwakura posted:lather those legs in emla and walk the 10 blocks from my office to the clinic. should be okay and not be awkward at all I'm hard core and go in dry with nothing but a vicodin in me 
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:Has anyone tried those home laser hair removal things? I've actually heard semi-positive results and it seems a million times cheaper. i have an acquaintance that swears by the tria, and the results seem pretty decent to me
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E4C85D38 posted:i have an acquaintance that swears by the tria, and the results seem pretty decent to me if you scroll back in this thread a bit we discussed it a bunch, apparently fishmech found one at a thrift store somehow
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Bear in mind a handheld laser isn't powerful enough to get some of the finer hairs a clinical laser can, and you're not gonna get it done near as fast as a pro. If you're on a budget it's a good option, but I'm always gonna advocate getting laser from a trained nurse in a medspa if you can afford it. It'll go faster, you'll get more, and it'll be less stressful.
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cis autodrag posted:Bear in mind a handheld laser isn't powerful enough to get some of the finer hairs a clinical laser can, and you're not gonna get it done near as fast as a pro. If you're on a budget it's a good option, but I'm always gonna advocate getting laser from a trained nurse in a medspa if you can afford it. It'll go faster, you'll get more, and it'll be less stressful. if you're doing something like your face definitely go for the pro, yeah. however if you want to do like your entire legs or something that would take forever and cost infinity dollars to get a pro to do it, it might be better to just use the home laser system. it won't get everything but it would thin it out a bunch and make shaving much easier and faster. at the very least it would probably reduce the number of treatments the pro would need to do to get rid of it completely 
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cis autodrag posted:Bear in mind a handheld laser isn't powerful enough to get some of the finer hairs a clinical laser can, and you're not gonna get it done near as fast as a pro. If you're on a budget it's a good option, but I'm always gonna advocate getting laser from a trained nurse in a medspa if you can afford it. It'll go faster, you'll get more, and it'll be less stressful. i'm in agreement however, IPL isn't laser <3
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Lain Iwakura posted:i'm in agreement the tria is an actual laser though, if that's what you're referring to
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I have one of the Philips Lumea ipl things. It basically scorched earthed my armpits after two treatments, had varying effectiveness on the rest of my body, and basically zero effect on facial hair.
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I have a little experience with the Tria laser because my body hair is gross, but it ended up being a waste of $500 in terms of effectiveness (in addition to being a royal pain in the rear end). Virtually zero result on my arms and hands even after something like ten treatments And I'm an ordinary pasty white guy with dark hair, supposedly the ideal candidate, but my body hair is pretty thin and wispy so that's probably a contributor So caveat emptor is all I'm saying
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More or lessj ust for kicks I also tried it on a small corner of my chin where the hair is dense compared to my arms but thin compared to the rest of my face and it burned like the rage of ten suns even on low power, so yeah don't do that without a pro
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I am an evolved being and I have figured out how to dangle between my couch and the ottoman on my back.
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I tried that once when I was a kid. Sprained my neck. I am not graceful.
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it can be good if you pack yourself in with like a dozen pillows but ofc you can never move again for the rest of youre life
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i prefer a firm pillow myself
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Heh. Firm.  
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Heh. Firm. Like a boner
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cis autodrag posted:Like a boner Boner? Is that like a butt? On a non-butt note, I’ve decided I’m going to get my face lasered this summer, since it seems the consensus is faces absolutely should be done professionally. Time to start researching!
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Faces suck. Also stick your tongue between your lip and your teeth when they do your upper lip or the laser energy blasts through to your teeth and nyeaargh
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Laser teeth seem loving awesome.
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at some point i'd like to get the hair on my face blasted into oblivion but i'm still so far from that point that it doesn't really bother me yet. the rest of my hair has been mostly not worth worrying about
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Synthbuttrange posted:Faces suck. what about your tongue tho
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Progressive JPEG posted:what about your tongue tho which would you rather absorb the stinging heat: a big slab of muscle or the root nerves of your teeth
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there seems to be a lot of variability in laser treatments from what i've heard reported by friends. my wife's laser treatments felt like "a rubber band being thwapped on your face" and was "more annoying than painful" with no visible light, whereas a friend in the UK described it as "excruciating" and reported seeing flashes of red light diffusing through her skin and lighting up in her eyeball. that could mean they're using a ruby laser (visible in the deep red part of the spectrum) whereas my wife's was done with a CO2 laser (infrared) or something like that, but i thought ruby lasers weren't used anymore... also my wife's treatment laser had some system that puffs ice cold air on you right before firing, whereas the UK friend just had some cooling gel applied, so that probably made a difference too. apparently the best ones have chilled transparent heat sinks to directly draw heat from the skin, but I don't know anyone who's used one of those. anyway i guess what i'm getting at is if you try laserin' your face and find it too painful, see about going to a different clinic or trying a different laser since they seem to have huge variations in pain levels based on wavelength, power, and cooling mechanism
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Synthbuttrange posted:Also stick your tongue between your lip and your teeth when they do your upper lip or the laser energy blasts through to your teeth and nyeaargh great, i was just thinking i didn't have enough anxiety about getting lasered
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Kazinsal posted:the stinging heat: a big slab of muscle mods this poster is doxxing my ok cupid profile
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Nail polish is loving hard, yo. I need a 15 year old girl to teach me this poo poo.Helianthus Annuus posted:mods this poster is doxxing my ok cupid profile They said muscle. :p
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Nail polish is loving hard, yo. I need a 15 year old girl to teach me this poo poo. Don't paint all the way to the edges. Keep a tissue to wipe up your cuticles after each nail. Basecoat, two polish costs, top coat. Wait 10 minutes between each.
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cis autodrag posted:Don't paint all the way to the edges. Keep a tissue to wipe up your cuticles after each nail. Basecoat, two polish costs, top coat. Wait 10 minutes between each. I didn’t know you were 15! (Lack of) Base coat and not waiting long enough seems to be where I screwed up this time. Thanks
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also don't buy cheap stuff. i usually go for essie which isn't expensive but isn't crap either
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Also make sure you're using good polish. OPI, Essie and other salon polishes are super smooth and easy to apply. making sure you really shake it and don't let it expire or settle is important too. push your cuticles back and try for smooth, even strokes. think of it like painting Warhammer models 
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ive seriously thought about going in for an occasional mani b/c every woman i know constantly bitches about my wonderful strong clean nails that i can grow as long as i want without breaking, might as well go deep. this thread is a cool read btw keep it up
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I got a bottle of Sally Hansen because the colour was nice and muted. Dunno about its quality. Also realizing the 70% isopropyl I have is in fact not "close enough to nail polish remover." Lol Edit: I think I’m going to have to bite the bullet and actually talk to an irl person in a cosmetics department, to make sure I get everything. Bunni-kat fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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Jonny 290 posted:ive seriously thought about going in for an occasional mani b/c every woman i know constantly bitches about my wonderful strong clean nails that i can grow as long as i want without breaking, might as well go deep. Don't. Painting your nails weakens them, you'll make them worse. I paint my nails to hide how hosed up they are from spiro. When I was presenting male I had beautiful nails.
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Jonny 290 posted:ive seriously thought about going in for an occasional mani b/c every woman i know constantly bitches about my wonderful strong clean nails that i can grow as long as i want without breaking, might as well go deep. mani's and pedi's are like gods gift to humans do it, feels so good and it's clean
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Oh yeah, definitely get Manis and pedis but don't let them polish, not even clear coat. Once you start your trapped forever cuz your nails will suck forever. Jessica in true blood is so God drat hot jesus
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Don't buy cheap poo poo and if you can't wait 10 minutes, get a uv nail lamp.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I got a bottle of Sally Hansen because the colour was nice and muted. Dunno about its quality. Also realizing the 70% isopropyl I have is in fact not "close enough to nail polish remover." Lol yeah you probably want pure acetone sally hansen is fine. you can also try butter london, essie and china glaze
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Jonny 290 posted:ive seriously thought about going in for an occasional mani b/c every woman i know constantly bitches about my wonderful strong clean nails that i can grow as long as i want without breaking, might as well go deep. if you're not getting polish done there's not much you'd get from a mani / pedi you can't do at home but you can also go just to 'pamper' yourself first time i went i discovered it's surprisingly painful and not relaxing at all though!!!
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i stopped painting my nails around christmas because i felt like it didn't matter for me anymore it's sort of weird. i wanted to do it just so i can at least have a hint at my gender but being that nobody has misgendered me since christmas, it hasn't really mattered once i am off spiro (hopefully next year...) i will consider painting them regularly again since i did happen to enjoy it
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