There are a couple new home laser hair removal devices such as the Tria. Do it work? Yes. Is it better than an in salon laser hair removal treatment. No.
Here are the basics of the Tria type devices:
- Cost is about $800
- It has a small spot size, much smaller than a salon laser so it will take many more pulses to do the same area.
- It only operates 30 minutes on a single charge.
- Doing a small area, like an underarm, it will take more than 30 minutes. So you’ll have to stop, charge for a couple hours, then resume. Doing lower legs could take all weekend!
- The battery has a set life. After several hundred chargings, it will lose power and need to be replaced.
So what is the recommendation?
- If you’re doing a small, easy to reach area, like lip, chin, sideburns, etc. then the Tria could be a good choice, but at $800 you can have these areas done much more economically by a salon. Compared to the price of the Tria you could do you’re entire face and have money left over.
- Doing larger areas, such as arms, legs, men’s back, chest, etc would be prohibitively time consuming having to stop every 30 minutes to charge it for an hour or two. We charge $900 for a women’s legs package. We can do a treatment in 90 minutes whereas the Tria would have you spending all weekend to do your legs – And you have to repeat this every 6-8 weeks.
- Put a price on your time. The price of the Tria is about what we charge for a Bikini and Underarm package (7 treatments). We can do the bikini and underarms in 30 minutes or less. The tria would take 4-5 chargingsto do the same area, so it could take a whole day between productive time and chargings.
- What we’d recommend the Tria for is touch up after having laser hair removal done on a large area. When a hair or two returns after several months the Tria would let you do a quick touch up right when the hair first appears and is in its growth stage.
For laser hair removal in Denver or Boulder, please visit us atwww.BellaPelleLaser.com
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