Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Hairless Wonder-Help I'm Addicted to Laser Hair Removal!

I am addicted to laser hair removal. Help, is there some sort of support group for this kind of thing yet? The other day I realized the extent of my addiction when I was perusing Facebook and this ad popped up for a do-it-yourself laser. There, up in the right hand corner of my webpage, an ad for Eplia- a DIY laser. It was an Hallelujah moment..you mean I don't have to shell out thousands of bucks for this at my local medical spa? I can actually do this myself in the comfort of my own home? Well, sign me up sister. So, I clicked on the ad and subsequently purchased the $200 laser that I venture to say isn't FDA approved (it came from Hong Kong) but I don't much care. Just look at Europe, the Europeans seem to be on the cutting edge of aesthetic procedures sans any government approval and often these very beauty treatments eventually end up on the menu of medical spas in the states. At least that is what I'm telling myself before I singe off a body part as I attempt my do-it-yourself laser hair removal.

I figure that it's a good gamble-lately I've been paying $280 per laser treatment to go Brazilian and I'm into the thousands. So hey, what's another $200 bucks to try this one out. Wish me luck and if you see me around town with scorched forearms (my next body part targeted for hair removal) be kind and remember that I am venturing to go where few women have gone before-into the uncharted, unregulated world of home laser hair removal. (In my defense, I can't stand the way my long arm hairs stick up when I'm cold. With my underarms and bikini line gone, furry forearms seem like my next logical target.)

Now, I'm not sure this is what Mother Nature had in mind in the evolutionary chain of development in terms of body hair but it seems many women are bucking the system and opting to pluck, wax or zap it off. Blame it on our pop culture and our emerging national phobia of all things body hair but I am the first to admit, once you start zapping unwanted body hair it is hard to stop. I am a laser hair removal addict and if my do-it-yourself laser fails me, then I'll be back at my local medical spa for another round.

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