Laser · Arms and Underarms
Laser — Half Arms
The part covered here spends most of the year under a sleeve. What you see of it therefore hangs not on the calendar but on what you wore that week — and when we talk about what you saw across the series, we take that into account.
Treatment details
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Single session
- TRY 1,200
- Package
- TRY 6,000
- Sessions in the package
- 8 sessions
- Interval between sessions
- 30 days
- Locations
- Bebek · Göktürk
- Payment options
- Payment at the studio · Online payment
About this treatment
On a part you do not see, following along behaves oddly. For weeks nothing strikes you, then a short-sleeved day comes and it feels as though a great deal changed at once.
That does not mean anything sped up; only how often you looked has changed. Knowing that difference puts the expectation in the right place from the start.
That is the subject of this page: when the part is visible, when your impression becomes reliable, and that the gap between appointments follows what the source says rather than the clothing season.
Session plan
With this cut, following along hangs on the season. In winter you see nothing for weeks; on the first short-sleeved day you meet a change that has piled up. Both are ordinary, and both are telling you about the same run.
Who it is planned for
If you are thinking of the whole arm, the catalogue carries a separate entry for it. Which one suits you this page cannot say; what it can say is how progress on a half cut shows itself in daily life.
- If you have a date in mind for wearing short sleeves, mention it when planning appointments.
- If you tend to form scars or keloids, pass that on before the appointment.
- If the arm has a fresh tan, report it before the appointment.
- If you take medicines, submit the list before the appointment; isotretinoin is one of them.
Before your appointment
Recommended
- Come ready to show at the appointment which half of the arm you mean.
- Choose a garment that does not press on the arm and pushes up easily.
- Try not to keep the arm in the sun in the days beforehand.
- Note down your medicines and any tendency to scars you know of.
To avoid
- Do not take the part off with wax or tweezers before the appointment.
- Do not use a sunbed in the days beforehand and do not apply a tanning product.
- Do not try to mark and fix the division yourself at home.
- Do not come assuming the whole arm will be worked; the cut is half.
Method
The area is looked at during the appointment, and that is part of the flow rather than an account of how anything works. Such an account would take a manufacturer document for the studio's platform, and no such document reached us.
How the appointment runs
- Showing the cutWhich half of the arm is worked is shown by hand, settled that way and carried into the note.
- Talking about visibilityYou are asked how often you get to see the part uncovered; what can be expected by way of observation follows from that.
- The applicationWork goes on over the settled half; say that something is uncomfortable and it halts.
- Setting the gapThe next appointment is planned by the weekly order the source describes, not by the clothing season.
- The circumstances of the lookingWhat you tell us next time is noted together with the circumstances you saw it under.
After your appointment
Recommended
- Write down the day the redness was gone.
- The first time you see the part on a short-sleeved day, note the date; the observing starts from there.
- Do not drop the protection on the long-sleeved days either.
- Next time, tell us as well what you were wearing when you looked.
To avoid
- Do not leave the arm uncovered in the sun for long after the appointment.
- Take the sunbed out of your programme until the next appointment.
- Do not have waxing done and do not pull out remaining hairs by hand.
- If you notice a blister or a scar, do not try a cream of your own choosing; ask us.
When to contact us: If the redness lasts longer than you thought, or you see blistering or a change of colour, ring us and say which half of the arm it is on. If it looks like a sign of infection, see a doctor first.
What to be aware of
- After the treatment a redness and a swelling like a mild sunburn are given as to be expected.
- Blistering, infection, scarring and a lasting change of colour in the skin are counted among the rarer risks.
- Throughout the period before the treatment, applying a wide-spectrum product of at least factor thirty every day is advised.
- Tanning in the sun or in a sunbed, and tanning products, are to be kept away from.
- A tendency to form scars or keloids, herpes outbreaks you have had, and the medicines you take are to be reported before the treatment.
At a glance
- The cut is half the arm; exactly where the division falls is settled at the appointment by pointing.
- When the part becomes visible does not alter the appointment plan; the gap follows the source.
- The circumstances you looked under go into the note as well — a short-sleeved day or not.
- Taking the cut up to the whole arm is a canonical entry of its own; nothing is quietly enlarged mid-appointment.
- The advice on sun protection stays the same even for a part that sits under fabric.
Good to know
Which half of the arm?
Above the elbow or below?
The name states the cut; the division it does not state. Where on the arm it stops you settle at the appointment by pointing.
What is settled goes into the record; the appointments that follow carry on from the same point.
When do you get to see the part?
Should I worry if nothing strikes me in winter?
In the weeks the arm stays covered you have no chance to look; what is missing is the looking, not the progress.
On the first day you see it uncovered you meet an impression that has piled up. That should not be credited to a single appointment.
Working towards a date
Can we make it by summer?
The gap hangs on the weekly order the source describes and is not shortened for a target in the calendar.
Say your date all the same: we try to build the plan around it, without promising anything for the result.
Taking the cut up to the whole arm
Is moving from half to whole possible?
It is; but because it is a separate entry in the catalogue, nothing is quietly enlarged in the middle of an appointment.
If you move over, we note that the division falls away and that the following continues with the new cut.
Sun protection for a part under fabric
Do I have to apply it when the arm is covered?
What is advised is daily wide-spectrum protection and no tanning; the arm staying covered gives no leeway on this point.
How much protection a long sleeve gives we do not write; our source holds nothing on that.
Regrowth over time
Is that the end of it for good?
Regrowth is expected over time, and top-up appointments can come up; the source says that directly.
Beyond that we promise nothing; there is no claim about lasting on this page.
What is to be reported before the appointment?
Which details must I pass on?
What the source lists: a liability to scars and keloids, a fresh tan, a history of herpes, and the taking of medicines — isotretinoin is named outright.
The list is the source's; we put no item on top of it.
The Fatma Süha approach
At Fatma Süha we do not settle for asking "did you notice anything". We ask when you saw the part as well, because those are two different things.
We do not want you thinking that nothing happened in the weeks you did not look. The run goes at its own gap; it is your looking that has holes in it.
We do not build the plan around the clothing season. The gap hangs on the order the source describes and is not squeezed to reach a date.
If you have a date, we want to hear it. We promise nothing on the strength of it, but building the plan together becomes possible.
Frequently asked questions
- Which half of the arm is worked?
- The division is shown by hand at the appointment and carried into the note; the catalogue name does not say it on its own.
- I see no change in winter — is something wrong?
- In the long-sleeved weeks you do not see the part. The looking is missing; that does not mean nothing happened.
- Can you make it by a particular date?
- The gap hangs on the order the source describes and is not squeezed. Say your date and we will build the plan together; for the result we promise nothing.
- Can I move to the whole arm later?
- You can; that is a canonical entry of its own, and you pick it when booking.
- Is sun protection needed when the arm is covered?
- The source advises daily protection, and the part being covered does not change that.
- Does the result on the half arm hold?
- Our source states that regrowth is expected over time; this page promises nothing about lasting.
- Can I have waxing done before the appointment?
- Wax, tweezers and electrolysis are advised against. The source gives no interval for it and we invent none; ask when you book.
- Must I report the medicines I take?
- You must. Submit your list before the appointment; isotretinoin is one of the ones the source names outright.
Locations
- BebekLaser — Half Arms
- GöktürkLaser — Half Arms
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