Treatment Details:

Tina Full-face:

The vast majority of people who come to Cristianos feel very self-conscious and vulnerable, desperate to believe we can help but afraid that it sounds too good to be true. Tina was no exception. The consultation and test patch do a lot to alley those feelings and help people to understand how committed we are to solving the problem. Tina did need extensive treatment, but I know the nature of the hair growth was perfect for our laser. I also know treatment would make a substantial improvement to Nickki's quality of life. Attending for regular monthly sessions is important. We made excellent progress, the dark hairs responded rapidly to reveal perfectly smooth skin. At each visit the amount of hair and therefore the amount of treatment required reduced substantially. Catherine commented 'Each month I see Tina I can see she is full of confidence and her self-esteem has improved dramatically'.
I now believe she has found the solution she never thought possible. Chris Hart

Tina has fair skin and dark, coarse hair.

Client Testimonial:

My testimonial is very much the same as Nikki’s once I read her story before my treatment I thought she was talking about my life. I too suffered as she did………….

I am 43 and my story begins when I was around 19, I attended the doctors after much worry and embarrassment to seek advise on how to stop the hairs that were now spouting out from my chin and had become much thicker in my moustache area. This appointment was to be the most embarrassing appointment I have ever had in my life. The appointments with the gynaecology specialists I found to be easier, after all, it wasn’t right that a woman had hairs on her chin and moustache! I was given Dianette too, the pill to stop excessive hair growth, it did not work for me either and I stopped taking it. Never returning to my doctors for fear of having to see another doctor and not having any more courage.

Over the years things became much worse, the hairs were now starting to be so much thicker, more noticeable and were joining up to my side burns. I was starting to look as though I had a full beard and moustache, if I did not shave each day early morning. Always before my family got up, before going to work. We are caravanners too and it was always a worry when booking sites I did not know, the fear of not knowing whether the washrooms had privacy basins or whether they were communal. Dashing off in a morning to the showers before my family woke to get rid of the dreaded hairs!!! If there were no privacy cubicles then a shave in the shower with no mirrors was always a little tricky.

By the time I turned 40 I was at an all time low, my lovely bubbly personality no longer with me, my confidence next to nothing. I was never able to go out straight after work with the girls as my 5 o’clock shadow saw to that, all I wanted to do was to rush home with my held down low so to avoid looking at people for fear of them laughing at me, praying that no one I knew would be on the bus so that I did not have to look at them whilst talking to them! I prayed my husband was not working late or my daughter so that I could get a lift home and not have to catch the bus. No amount of makeup could hide the shadow! I felt stupid with all that powder and foundation it was so obvious that I was trying to cover something! The only solution was to get home and SHAVE again!! I was a master at this now, my family had no idea I was pretty sure of this as I know my sisters, they are the first to point any flaws I have, sibling rivalry and all. One special family birthday weekend away staying in a cottage with all my sisters their families and my parents I had to get up at 4.00 in the morning, use the bathroom and go back to bed before we all gathered at breakfast in our pyjamas, a family tradition!

It’s been a struggle, you do become an expert but it does grind you down, depressing and upsetting, why couldn’t I be like normal women. Women who had lovely downy hair on the faces, no moustache to talk about? I did not want to go out in the day for fear of not getting back home in time for the evening shave, people stopped asking me and I became lost in a world of my own. Day and night all I could think of was stubble! Eventually I decided to look at some web sites on the internet, when I stumbled on Cristianos. At first I visited the wrong site it was the site for the transgenders. I read the site with great interest, I looked at the testimonials and photos and was amazed by the results. I knew if the treatment worked on the transgenders then it MUST be able to work for me! Once I found the site on the internet, I visited it daily at work, I could not take in that this was the answer to all my problems, it was simply there on the screen, ready and waiting for me. It was all I could think of day in and day out, eventually I plucked the courage up to email Chris at the Manchester office. I asked her questions that I already knew the answers to, after reading the website but I needed the human contact, I needed to know that there was a human at the end of the website too. Chris answered all my emails with all my answers and made me feel even surer that I was doing the right thing by contacting her. She told me to take my time and let her know when I was ready. No sales patter, no pressure. I pondered and pondered, kept bugging Chris by email then left it for a couple of weeks, the nagging doubt being that I had to be open to my husband before being able to go further. My next step was to speak to my husband. I read my emails again and again from Chris until finally I decided that I was not on my own out in the big world, there were others like me and I must deal with this today. I sat my husband down to discuss my problem. He was amazed that I had such a problem, my secret was well kept, and he had no idea. He was very supportive and encouraged me to go ahead and book an appointment for a consultation.

I wanted to book my appointment with Chris, after all she knew my story, but with other appointment commitments and all we finally managed to make an appointment at the Leeds office, because I had made my mind up, now was not the time to back out because Chris was not available, Chris assured me that Catherine at Leeds was as nice as she was and Leeds being nearer to me it would be so much easier. I was apprehensive of having to tell my story all over again to a stranger Going through all the embarrassment again, after telling, Chris and my husband but hey, I came this far there was no backing out now!

I booked an appointment at the Leeds clinic for an early Saturday morning. I was told that I could shave that day I was relieved as I thought I would have to face my husband, the public and the people at the clinic with the dreaded “bearded face”. When I got to the clinic, the receptionist, Lauren was very pleasant and welcoming, I did not feel out of place at all, she offered both of us a coffee and asked us to take a seat whilst we wait to be seen by Catherine. My heart was pounding, my mind was racing and I just wanted to run out of the door and get back into my car and hurry home, forget the whole thing, carry on with my daily routine morning, noon and night and get back into my “safe depressing world”. The door opened and in came Catherine with a huge smile, not a grin, not a laughing smile but a welcoming smile, a caring smile and I knew immediately I was going to be ok.

I left my husband in the reception I did not want him to come into the consultation room with me as I did not want him to hear how long my story covered and how depressed and upset I have been inside when outside things seemed normal to him. Catherine sat me down and asked how she could help! WELL that was an open invitation! My mouth started to move and I could not stop, I told her everything, she never got a word in edgeways! I started to cry with the relief of being able to share my huge problem at last with someone who could understand, someone who knew, someone who listened as I poured my heart out. Poor poor Catherine, she sat and listened patiently and then said those magic words ….. “I can help you”! Catherine asked if she could carry out a test patch and chose an area under my chin to test. I was amazed at the accurate description Nikki had given in her account of how and what was entailed in the test patch. It was all as she had said, it did hurt a little, a stinging sensation, a bit like someone pinging an elastic band at you, the burning toast like smell and then a little redness. It couldn’t have been easier! I had a small red mark and could not believe that that was it. Catherine agreed to see me again in a couple of weeks and with that I booked my next appointment.

I came out of Catherine’s room full of the joys of spring! I knew she was my saviour! I trusted her and could not wait for my next appointment and the next and the next!

Now 8 months in, it’s as if it has all been a nightmare, shaving is no longer an issue. Some days I do not need to shave at all! I love attending my monthly sessions with Catherine, she brightens my day, and my whole outlook on life has changed dramatically. My husband and family have seen a remarkable change in me. My life know longer revolves round what time of day is it? Time to shave? Have I got time to shave? Will I get home on time to shave? I go for drinks now after work. Only the other week I was at the Cosmetics counter taking advice on foundation and the cosmetics lady was looking closely at my skin type and commented on what lovely skin I had! I mean, 8 months ago I would have scurried past the cosmetic counter for fear of being laughed at by the perfect made up glamour girls that stand there!!! Life is great, I still attend my sessions with Catherine and Lauren, and it’s always a pleasure seeing them we have become quite good friends over the 8 months. I am starting now to have treatment on my sideburns the hairs on my chin and moustache nearly all eradicated. I feel like a woman and now look like a woman.

Word needs to be put out about this amazing Company who make dreams come true! I feel that I want to tell the whole world, that they can help you get your life back. If your problems are the same as mine and the others in their testimonials, then go on, do it, pick up the phone and make that first appointment, it is something you won’t regret it is the answer to all your problems.

Tina June 2007

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