Well, the 13th visit was kind of interesting. I wasn't able to find the topical cream I normally use before the laser treatments. So I was kind of panicked because I'm not that good with pain.
The last time I tried that was my 4th laser treatment I believe. 
OUCH!! So when I went in the office I told my laserologist about it and she felt for me, but there was nothing she could do. It was too late even if she had any. She looked at the hairs that had grown in and told me she was going to have to up the heat to get those because the hairs were so fine (what I've been calling light). Now I know as a good describer I should have asked for a better explanation, but I just trust her so much I didn't even think about doing it. At the time I was more worried about the pain.
She went to something called 50/7 from 50/10 or I have it reversed. She increased the amount of heat she said and the laser was more focused/direct. She told me that my complexion was light enough that it wouldn't damage my skin. Naturally when I thought about more heat I thought more pain. More zap!
She cleared the hair away with a bic razor (no shaving cream or anything) it was just light hair. I was so cringing when I saw her pick up the laser. 
When she started I thought back to when I was in tears once for not putting on topical cream. I was wrong for being afraid and thank God she was right about the higher setting. She told me I was kind of going to be someone to test that setting because she doesn't have that many people with my skin tone. She said she has either darker skinned or more fair skinned customers. Since it was Rhonda, I didn't mind being an experiment. If you don't mind I'd like to digress a little more. She told me that when she first started treating me because I did have color in my skin she was treating me more like a person with a darker complexion so she wouldn't burn my skin. Over the course of my treatments she's told me the more she's upped the setting the more she's learned because my skin was able to handle higher heat without burning.
One last thing and then I promise I'm back to the appointment. She got a phone call when she'd finished the right cheek. I did notice that my face felt a lot warmer than it had previously. On the other side of that, thankfully, I didn't even have to apply an ice pack after we were done. Weird, eh?
Anyhoo, she told me it shouldn't hurt as much at this setting of higher heat and it didn't.
I was very happy. 
I was still worried though because we hadn't gotten to the true sensitive areas. The true sensitive area are around the lip. Well again she was right. I can't believe how much it didn't hurt. It felt better than any time before that, even with the topical cream. If I told you I'm sensitive to pain (the thought of plucking eye brows causes sweats) it would be an understatement. So I'm telling you it really didn't hurt.The other thing that was interesting was how little the laser fired off. Over the upper lip it only fired off in two places. It fired off where the nostrils connect. When I say fire off it was like in the time it takes the sound of snapping fingers, maybe even less? When she went over the areas on my chin and lower cheeks, where hair had grown, it went off and we both were like, "We got you, you little buggers."
I could even smell the hair burning and she saw them eject too. Rhonda is just the best! She saw hairs that I couldn't see above the top of my lip. She said they were really fine, but she zapped those too. When she zapped those I just knew I was going to shriek without the topical cream, but I didn't.
Well, lets see what happens over the next three months.
That will bring me squarely into July, which will mark the anniversary of me not using my electric razor or any razor to shave. I'm hoping my next landmark will be, "The last time I had a laser hair appointment was X months ago." Thanks for reading.
I hope this helps those who are considering or have started laser treatments. 
Beauty
Add no shaving on from the last post to this one and that's how long I haven't shaved. 
