Many trans and indeed cis women want to remove hair and laser, or Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) often works well.

There are also many more practitioners but do ensure you go to a reputable salon and bear in mind that you will likely need several treatments in any body area to work.  Also, your skin colour and hair colour will be essential factors concerning both eligibility and success. 

Laser & IPL works best if you have dark hair and light skin colour. It often can’t be done on dark skin as it can cause severe burns.

I tried several salons, and in the main, I felt most were very good, but you do need to beware that there can be significant differences in costs. 

When I got towards the end of my salon visits, I discovered the home device from Philips called “Lumea IPL”.  They cost around £325, but to my surprise, it worked exceptionally well, and I would certainly recommend buying one.  

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Steph Richards (she/her) is a 74-year-old human rights activist, intersectional feminist, and recipient of a 2023 Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Award. Holding a Gender Recognition Certificate and "post op", she is the founder and Chair of Translucent.Org.UK, which was named LGBT Organisation of the Year at the 2022 National Diversity Awards. Steph was also shortlisted as a Positive Role Model for Gender at the 2025 National Diversity Awards. Steph’s leadership spans political, healthcare, and community advocacy. She served as the Women’s and LGBT Officer for the Portsmouth Labour Party (2021–2024), co-founded the Women’s Action Network (Portsmouth), and is a former CEO of a women’s health charity. A passionate champion for women's healthcare, she possesses extensive expertise in baby loss awareness, actively defends UK abortion rights and is a member of "Women Against the Far-Right". Calling out VAWG, Steph has researched and written about 125 women and girls killed by a man. A prominent voice in national media and debate, Steph has been featured live on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Anti Social, Good Morning Britain, Times Radio, LBC, GB News, and Channel 4 News. In 2023, she debated trans human rights alongside Harvard biologist Dr. Carole Hooven at a prominent US university event.

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