Skin Station PH Diode Laser Hair Removal Review

A couple of years ago, I chanced upon a sponsored ad from Skin Station on my Facebook feed that offered 8 sessions of their Diode Laser Hair Removal for five thousand pesos. I had no idea what Diode Laser Hair Removal was, but I was definitely intrigued. I’ve always been a lazy girl and underarm grooming had always been a pain to consider when planning trips, especially the beach ones.

Skin Station PH Diode Laser Hair Removal FB Ad

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Being the (older) millennial that I was, of course I immediately jumped online to look for reviews for efficacy. After all, five thousand pesos was an amount that I couldn’t comfortably spend on something that I didn’t know anything about. Metrodeal was also still a thing back then and sketchy IPL promos were very much abundant. I’ve read more than one review for IPL treatment bundles that didn’t work.

While I did manage to find a few of blogs who chronicled their sessions with Skin Station Diode Laser Hair Removal, none of them wrote about their experiences with the full eight sessions. While they were very informative in terms of how the procedure was done and what sort of stuff to expect, most of them stopped writing about it after their third or fourth appointments.

Despite the lack of complete reviews, I decided to avail the promo. I reckoned that it was a relatively safe gamble since Skin Station was one of the bigger brands in terms of beauty treatments and the people who posted their experiences seemed to have been off to good starts. Luckily there was a branch in Festival Mall Alabang so I dropped by the Saturday before the promo period ended.

Skin Station PH Diode Laser Hair Removal

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Here’s the run down of questions that I had:

So does it work? Hell yes. It definitely works. While it didn’t completely eliminate the hair growth in my pits, the treatments have significantly thinned down the hair growing in there and slowed it down enough that I only need to go back for ‘booster’ treatments after about a full year.

Skin Station PH Diode Laser Hair Removal Treatment Card

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Booster treatments? What? See, the whole treatment works like this: your first few treatments have to happen about three to six weeks in between and once the desired outcome of slowed hair growth has been achieved, you only need to come back on a “as needed” basis for booster treatments. I believe that this all depends on how your hair grows, but here’re the dates when I claimed my eight vouchers.

1 – September 18 2015

2 – October 16, 2015

3 – November 27, 2015

4 – March 5 2016

5 – April 30 2016

6 – August 27, 2016

7 – January 6, 2017

8 – November 4, 2017

As you can see, the first three sessions happened strictly three to five weeks in between of each other. After the first and second sessions, my armpit hair grew back just like normal so I had to keep coming back to get my armpits shaved and get the treatment. It wasn’t until after the third and fourth sessions that the hair growth slowed down enough that the attendant actually advised me to come back only when I have enough hair in there that bothered me. That was actually nice advice, since it meant that they weren’t in it just for the money. Sessions after the fifth one were at least a five months in between and I think I’ve reached the point that I only need to go back after a full year.

They recently released another round of promos and I availed of another package (this time 9 sessions for five thousand pesos) since the vouchers don’t expire and I can use these 9 sessions for my yearly booster treatments.

How much are the sessions if not on a promo? They’re 1,500php per session so the promo does really come in handy.

Does it hurt? Not really. They’ll apply this cold gel to protect you from the heat and for some reason it feels like tiny pin pricks that are more annoying than painful. I guess that’s the hair follicle dying? I’m not really sure, but here’s the link for their Diode Laser Guide.

How long do the sessions last? They say on the website that the sessions run for thirty minutes but all of my previous ones were no more than twenty minutes each. That’s about ten minutes per armpit and that includes the shaving of the hair already.

Skin Station PH Diode Laser Hair Removal Instructions

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Are there any instructions that you have to follow before each session? Yes, there are a few things that you have to prep for before going in. I lifted this from the Skin Station Facebook page:

• Do not shave area to be treated 2 weeks or at least three (3) to five (5) days before your appointment.
  • Do not pluck, wax or use a depilatory in the areas you wish to treat four (4) weeks prior to your treatment.
  • Avoid any unnecessary UV exposure to the areas to be treated four (4) weeks prior to treatment.
  • Avoid self-tanning products four (4) weeks prior to treatment.
  • Do not apply Retinol/ Retinoic acid-containing creams/lotions one (1) week before your Diode laser treatment.
  • Stop application of NanoWhite Intensive underarm cream one (1) week before your Diode laser treatment.
  • No peeling agents or diamond peel one (1) week before the procedure

I hope that this has been a helpful guide of sorts to anybody who’s interested in availing of their promo. I’d like to say that this is not a sponsored post. I just wanted to write about my experience. Let me know in the comments if you have any other questions and I’ll try my best to answer them if I can.