A young woman has gone to extreme hair removal lengths to become baby smooth, eventually resulting in serious burns across her skin.
Women have been convinced by modern beauty companies that to be beautiful, they need to be hairless. The obsessive hair treatment ensures constant sales of creams, razors, and other removal methods. It’s an income stream for cosmetics, and a constant battle for women.
For some, the obsession becomes dangerous. There are some methods that can be damaging to the skin, such as laser hair removal. Not everyone responds the same way to the treatment, and it can have some dangerous results.
For Bay, her desire to have a completely hairless body resulted in a lot of spending and some adverse effects.
Quest To Become Smooth Costs Thousands
The woman, who is only known as Bay, told People, “My mistake was rushing to remove an insecurity and trusting marketing blindly because it spoke directly to that insecurity.” She opted for a company known as LaserAway, but was unhappy with the results.
The laser hair removal was incredibly expensive and disappointing. Due to their unprofessionalism, she was left with new, thick hair growth and inconsistent treatments. “Every session was with a different technician. They treated random areas of my face, neck, even my nose and forehead – no real consistency or plan,” she said.
When she started noticing thick hair growth after the laser treatment, she opted for somewhere else. Ideal Image offered another option that would take place over ten treatments. This added thousands more to her bill, but Bay was still determined to be hair-free.
“At first, it just looked like dry, ashy patches, mostly around my bikini line and lower back. They told me it was normal. Over time, the pain became unbearable, especially during PMS,” she told the outlet. Her body was covered in patchy, dark, painful burns from the laser treatment.
She continued with the laser treatment, but, as she recalled, “eventually, I was badly burned on my arms, and the marks were instant and severe.” She stopped the treatment eventually, on the whole, but does still use it on certain areas.
Unable to get over her obsession with hair removal, she still hurts herself to have it taken off. She has moved on from laser hair removal and now uses equally painful electrolysis. “Electrolysis is definitely painful, but manageable. The mustache area hurts the most, you feel each individual pore.”