I have light skin and dark hair. I asked previously in past on here for advice on it and started doing diode laser. 3 sessions I had seen a good difference on my sides, underneath chin wasnt any different, upper lip no difference, chin I saw some progress on but still real heavy. I chalked it up to needing more sessions but I asked them to make sure to increase the power of the device to make sure it was working. This place also wanted to do the sessions weekly which sounded off to me, I went biweekly instead. I took pictures of it each time to verify things. 6 sessions in I'm still seeing no difference, I look back at pictures and they hadn't changed any of the settings. I called them out on this , they promised to give me one more for free , I went in , still no difference and they wouldn't let me take picture of the settings. I asked for a refund and they gave me it thankfully.

Now I've gone on to a new place, using a Candela gentlemax , it felt stronger but about 2 weeks later I'm not seeing any difference still. Again, I took picture of the settings to see what they're doing.

This has me really bummed out as I'm not sure if I"m wasting my time with this and should just jump into electrolysis. Or perhaps the diode was never done right and I need to give the candela time to work. She wants me to come back in for next session with 1 month in between each.

What should I be looking for with settings for diode and candela? Should I just start electrolysis right now ? Or give laser more time to work? Please help