Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Update 3/3/2012: I'm pleased to report I've had *totally* different results on my bikini line than on my legs. I'd say I've seen at least a 60% reduction in growth after 3 treatments, maybe more (I'm only 1 week post-treatment so there is still time for more hairs to fall out) - I'm amazed and completely pleased! Still working on my legs, making progress slowly but surely. Bottom line - I think the color and texture of the hairs do make a HUGE difference in the results - not just between different people, but between different parts of your own body. Accordingly, I'm sure the reviews here and people's experiences will vary a lot. But it does work!! ____________________________________________________________ Update 2/8/2012: So, after a bunch of treatments (6?) I'm back to update. You are probably wondering how I fit so many treatments in in the ~7 weeks or so since my last update - I'll get to that. The results: I *do* still have hair on my legs (the only place I've treated so far). HOWEVER: it is much more sparse and thin than it was before. I'm disappointed I wasn't TOTALLY! HAIRLESS! after 3 sessions as the advertisement promised, but I do think it's *working* and will continue to treat. The reason I'm not downgrading my rating to fewer stars (yet) is because: 1) For my first 3 treatments I was so excited about the device, I only waited 1 week between treatments. I read in the comment section here that professional IPL actually recommends you wait up to 4 weeks between treatments (!) because it takes 10-15 days just for the hairs to fall out. If they haven't fallen out, they haven't re-grown, so you're treating the same hairs over and over if it you do it too frequently. As soon as I read that, I switched to every 2 weeks like they recommend. My bad for not following directions initially and I do think this has affected my results. 2) My leg from knee to ankle is a *lot* of surface area; at least more so than places like tummy or underarms. I am pretty sure I have not yet mastered the art of not missing spots when I'm treating (most of my thicker remaining hair is centered on my shinbone for some reason - maybe I keep missing there?) so perhaps every hair has not been treated every time. My sister-in-law has this device as well and said it's working miracles for her everywhere but not as much on her legs. So that's a theory. I'm now working on bikini area and am going to keep treating my legs. I expect to see a significant reduction very very soon. If not, I'll be back to report. (This review will get impossibly long!) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Update 12/12/2011: My second treatment was this weekend and I can definitively say I have fewer hairs growing back today than I would normally. I last shaved on Thursday (today is Monday) and usually my legs would already be covered in noticeable stubble, so I think it's actually working. I'd post pictures here if I could! I have small patches of leg that have no hair, and the hairy patches (ick) are less.. thick.. dense?.. than they should be. One thing to know that is difficult about the device is the window is smaller than the treatment head, so it's hard to see what patches are overlapping and which aren't. I imagine this will make for initially patchy results, but it's easy to go back and spot treat. More updates to come. __________________________________________________________________________________ I certainly hope the hair removal industry is ready, because they are going DOWN! Super excited to be an early-adopter of one of these devices because now I get to be totally hairless before all of my friends. Well, at least that's what I'm hoping. Full disclosure is that I just bought my i-light last week so have only done one treatment so far (second one scheduled for a few days from now), so I plan to review it today and then update again once I've done the full 3 treatments they recommend before seeing results. So far, I couldn't be happier with the machine. It's easy to use (after reading the instruction booklet, of course) and I'm pretty confident it will work (when I zapped areas of my leg that I missed while shaving, I actually saw the little hairs shriveling up). It IS important, as they say, to shave beforehand because a) it hurts less and b) no burnt hair smell. I was able to use power level 5 so hopefully after treatment #2 I'll start seeing fewer hairs.