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E36 - More on "Manufacturers' Settings" and how bad they are...
Yesterday, I visited a very nice lady to train on the use her very expensive laser. She'd had previous training on laser hair removal but was not obtaining good results. Most of her clients were returning with thinner, finer hairs - yet, she was following the 'manufacturers' guidelines' religiously.
What was going wrong?
Her machine is excellent - she'd just had it serviced. So there was no issue with it. She told me that she bought it in June 2018 and had treated many clients. But they virtually all were coming back with the same problem - fine hairs.
I looked at the User Manual and found the problem immediately. (I already knew what the problem was, but I needed to confirm it).
The fluences were far too low!
Again!!!
As with many manufacturers' settings...
She has alexandrite/Nd:YAG combo system which can fire each wavelength independently or as a 'blend'. The more I read her manual, the more nonsense I read. Even the 'blend' ratio was complete nonsense - it showed a complete lack of understanding of the mechanisms involved in laser hair removal.
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