A week or so ago, while listening to one of the (many) crappy pop radio stations in town, I heard an ad for half-price laser hair removal.
“Pshaw, stupid vain pop radio listeners going to get laser hair removal,” thought I. “Why would anyone ever go do that?”
Then I thought of a reason. I immediately began to get excited at the thought of half-price laser hair removal, and began to mentally plan my session.
“I could blog it! Take pictures! Take video!”
The excitement waned a little bit when I realized that the area that I wanted to get the removal on wasn’t really as dense as I was imagining, and began to worry. Then I found out that you have to shave the area yourself first, so that they know where to target the laser.
“Excellent,” I thought. “This way I can try it out beforehand to see if it will even work, and if not, pray for the old wives’ tale of the hair growing back denser every time you shave it.”
Well, tonight I tried it out. Sadly, I think my only option is to hope for the old wives’ tale. One ray of sunshine: I did somewhat document my efforts tonight, and I share them with you now.
Here it is after I finished the stenciling and shaving. Sadly I forgot to get a before shot, showing that while it may not be dense, it is widespread.
Here it is after washing off the outline. Note to people trying this in the future: when you do the test to see if the ink will wash off easily, make sure you let it sit for a little while and then try to wash it off. Chances are it will set and then be very, very difficult.
Here’s a final closeup. I need denser hair hair for this to work. My one hope is that the wives’ tale is true, meaning that the area that I shaved off will be denser, so that I can eventually laser a negative image into the hair, leaving a naked bat symbol in the middle. That’d be so damned cool.
