Myth 2: Home IPL is expensive and takes ages
Obviously, you’re going to be spending more on the one-off payment for an IPL epilator than you would for a session at a beauty salon. But if you calculate how many times and how often you need to go to a salon to get the desired result, a home epilator is an absolute steal. Not to mention the maintenance visits, which you have to keep going to after the basic series of treatments.
The average epilator lasts for about 200,000 flashes, which is about 15 years of use. This means it’s better to choose a device with a larger flashlamp. Plus, you can use it whenever you want and don’t need to wait for your beautician to find time for you.
Myth 3: IPL hair removal is permanent
I’m going to disappoint you here a bit, but it isn’t. IPL does not destroy the roots, so the hair keeps growing back. But it’s true that the more thorough you are at the beginning, the more slowly the hair grows. What’s more, after a while the hair enters a resting phase and begins to fall out spontaneously. I know this from my own experience – for the first two months I used the epilator all over my body like a crazy person every two weeks. Now I only play with it once every four to six weeks and enjoy having perfectly smooth skin in between.
Myth 4: IPL is going to leave me childless
My friend Rachel told me this one. She couldn’t even remember where she’d got the “information” from any more, but every time we had a conversation about permanent hair removal she’d happily tell me, “Did you know that if you do IPL hair removal down there regularly, you’ll end up infertile? That’s why the manufacturers always put on the packaging that their IPL epilator must not be used during pregnancy and breastfeeding.” And just when I was hoping she’d stopped saying this, she started back at it again...
