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It’s been 9 days since my first session with the Rio Salon Laser Scanning Hair Remover. The instructions clearly suggest to use it once per month for six months. Although they do say there is no problem with using it more often, nowhere does it say that using it more often will result in the hair disappearing any faster. Nevertheless, I decided to schedule my 2nd attempt so close to day one to make up for my chaotic scanning of the first day.

Before attacking the designated areas I did some calculations to see how long should it take me to scan. Let me go over a few of the numbers with you, so you can compare better with your own particular case.

As I said on day 1, I am initially targeting only two areas of 8 x 8 cm² and the Rio Laser Hair Remover (the one they say is for 20 hairs) has a laser scanning area of 7mm x 5mm. To better see what these numbers mean, look at the next image:

There I have represented one of the areas I am treating with the centimeters nicely marked. The smaller red rectangle is the laser. Now grab a ruler and check how much area in your leg does that cover… To scan in an orderly way, for if you jump from here to there like I did the first day after a couple of minutes you can’t remember what have you done already, the laser must be moved slowly, doing one tiny rectangle at a time, like I show in this next image:

So if we calculate how many times do we have to place the laser in the area to cover it fully:

that is, 16 times down and a bit over 11 times across: over 176 times! Ok, now what does this mean? As I mentioned on the first day, I am using power level number 3. According to the instructions, each scan takes from 10 seconds up to 50 seconds between levels 1 and 5, so each scan at power level 3 is going to take 30 seconds. 176 times 30 seconds are 88 minutes. An hour and a half for each area! And I spent 15 minutes in total on day 1… I definitely needed a 2nd more-correct session. From what I’ve told you, you can estimate how long would it take you to do your legs, or whatever area you’d like the hairs to disappear from.

One more thing, in the previous images it looks quite straight-forward to scan consecutive centimeter squares. In reality, the top of the wand where the laser is, is quite wide and when placing it on your skin all you see is something like what I show in the following image:

The gray ellipse is the top of the wand. You have to tilt the wand when placing it on your skin to try to see if you are placing the rectangle where it should be. Doable but not so easy.

Impressions of day 2:

• The good news: it does not take as long as estimated for you can skip the hairless patches, if there are any…
• Quite a few hairs smelt of burnt this time. In fact, after removing the wand, you could see their tips burnt. I wonder if it was because this time I did have them all around 2 - 3 mm long.
• The “pin prick” was still noticeable.

So, I’m going to let these two areas rest for a month now. But here is the plan, for I am as impatient to see results as you are:

1. I will post again on these two areas in two weeks’ time (say the 8th of February) letting you know if I see any results.
2. Meanwhile I am going to start targeting a second area with slightly different conditions, to make this study of whether the Rio Laser Hair Remover works or not, more complete. Next week I will prep the area on Monday and I will be ready to tell you all about it by Wednesday30th/Thursday31st.

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PS. No, I’m not forgetting to mention the 3-hair test I am doing on ZoltarStark. The two hairs on the left arm were there and were zapped again using power level 5. According to ZoltarStark, no pain, no burning smell, nothing. The one hair on the left arm… we could not find it. Now I don’t know if it’s a result of the laser treatment or not, but the truth is, it was not there. I’ll check again in two weeks’ time.

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