I’ve been using mine every 2 weeks for a total of 4 sessions now. Most of my leg hairs are gone – only a rare odd one out will be spotted when I look very very carefully, which I’m only doing to monitor the progress. Armpits and bikini area are lagging a bit behind, but can definitely see progress with patches of hair no longer growing back. My hair is thick so it does not surprise me it’s tacking a little longer than they predict. It’s practical to do it at home, and at the end of the day I feel like it saves money as this many sessions in a clinic would have already cost me just as much or maybe more, and, as mentioned, I would still need a few more sessions for some areas. I definitely feel like it was a really good purchase.

 

I delayed buying this for so long as was unsure whether it would work. I wished I bought it years ago. I did 3 treatments and I have hair free legs already don’t delay it is expensive but worth every penny

 

This is the second Lumea I’ve owned. The previous one lasted 10 years – this one is definitely an improvement.

 

I bought one year ago and I noticed a huge difference on my body hair specially underarms. I think legs and bikini take more time to notice.
Be aware: DONT USE ON YOURS TATTOO.

On my first time I didnt know about it and I used causing a inflamation, burning and huge pain. My tattoo has been damaged!

 

I thought it wouldn’t really work, but it does. I am very pleased. There’s a spot on my shin that I kept missing because I just didn’t notice. The difference between that spot and the rest of my leg is huge!

 

I bought this product at the end of august, use it every 10 days – 2 weeks and my hairs have near enough stopped growing! I have thick course hair and I am so impressed with it! Would highly recommend!

 

This has honestly exceeded all of my expectations in less than a month. I’m the perfect candidate for IPL – fair, with very dark hair. It’s been a problem since I was 10 or 11 – cruel kids and boys at school, followed by years of self-image problems. Now I’m older I know women’s body hair is entirely natural and removing it just patriarchal nonsense, but it’s a nonsense I still haven’t managed to get away from, somehow.

Every hair removal method I’ve ever tried has always ended up in the same place – ingrowing hairs and regrowth in less than a day. Summer is always fairly miserable, with my legs burning after seaside paddling, and glowing with daily shaving rash.

Enter the Lumea. I was dubious, and read every review I could find before investing. Even then, I wasn’t convinced – so I duly cranked it up to its highest setting of 5 and went over every area twice to begin. (This is against the manufacturer’s recommendations, so I’m not suggesting anyone else does this. It may well not even be safe.). I repeated the process a few days later because hell, I’d already shaved everywhere, so what did I have to lose? In all, I probably did 4x full-blast, overlapping treatments in week one.

Everything I read on their website and elsewhere on the science of IPL says that doing it more often does not increase result. Yet for me, it seems to have worked magic.

It’s been 3 weeks and I still have not had to shave again since that initial week of treatments. There are a few patches on my legs, yes, but they’re growing so slowly that I was able to treat them again this week (my first time redoing it), still without needing to shave again first.

My underarms and bikini area are still stubble-free enough to wear swimwear with confidence. My legs no longer have that darkness where new hair growth is visible beneath the skin, and for the first time in adult memory, I have zero ingrowing hairs to contend with, anywhere. I cannot stress how unusual all of this is for me. I’d normally have more regrowth than this in 3 hours, never mind in 3 weeks.

If this is the most it ever does for me, it’s already been worth every penny – but given such little sign of regrowth, I’m optimistic that results will last much longer than 3 weeks and continue to improve more with subsequent treatments.

I haven’t found it painful at all – occasionally a little hot-feeling in sensitive areas, but 99% of the time I can’t even feel it whatsoever. In fact, I find it quite fun, and even slightly addictive. Sadly, my husband has vetoed me doing his legs, or the dog and the cat, so I’ll just keep going on myself and enjoy basking in the freedom, finally, from a lifetime of body hair trauma and grief.

UPDATE: 1 year on!
As Spring comes around again, I thought I should update this. I haven’t used the Lumea since last summer. Overall I’d say I’ve used it for about 5 ‘binge’ sessions since buying it, sometimes spread over a couple of days. That’s all it’s taken for me to get amazing results.

6 months on from my last treatment and I’m still able to go bare-legged in dresses and skirts without shaving. The areas that I haven’t treated as much have some regrowth, but it’s finer and lighter than it ever used to be.

My bikini area has basically 0 regrowth – I suppose it’s still too soon to call this permanent, but it’s lasted 6+ months with no sign of return, so I’m optimistic.

I’ve noticed that areas I treated with the tinted attachments (eg the underarm one) have regrown, so I’m now using the clear-windowed attachment now in all areas, on the maximum setting of 5.
Likewise, areas where my hair is naturally lighter or thinner have taken longer to respond too, but it’s no big deal.

A little over a year on the and device is starting to malfunction – it thinks it’s flashing when it isn’t. It’s annoying for such an expensive purchase but then I have completely ignored the instructions, to be fair!

Overall, the Lumea is well worth it, especially if you have the fair skin and dark hair combo. Extras like the attachments, cordlessness, skin sensor etc are not necessary though, so if you can find a cheaper model with the equivalent lux (the brightness of the treatment light) then go for that instead.

Happy zapping!