Laser hair removal scarred me for life

By Lisa Mayoh


VICTIMS of laser hair removal operators are seeing red over inaction in regulating the industry that has left them with unsightly scars.

Lena Qutami, 28, spent six months out of the sun, protecting her scarred legs after treatment at a western Sydney salon.

"It was the worst thing that's ever happened to me," Ms Qutami told The Sunday Telegraph.

"I got rectangular burn marks all over my legs. I had to sit in a cold bath.

"It was so painful, I was crying."

Ten years ago, guidelines recommending that training and a licence be compulsory for users of laser machines were drafted, but are yet to be adopted.

In the meantime, countless men and women have fallen victim to unskilled laser operators.

Linda Jensen, 30, from Sydney's northern beaches, was scarred after laser treatment onher armpits and bikini line.

"They burned me quite severely. It was horrendous," she said.

"It took three months to heal. It was over the summer, which was horrible because I couldn't go in the water or be in the sun."

The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency is drafting national guidelines for the laser industry that are due to be completed by June.

They will be released for public consultation before being considered by each state.

Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australasia spokeswoman Dr Gabrielle Caswell has been lobbying the State Government for change for seven years.

Dr Caswell said there was also a risk that unqualified therapists were incorrectly diagnosing skin cancers.


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It is a learning to all beauty parlor or beauty salon that they should be careful to handled the customer and they should well train their employee or their laser operator, it should skilled employee. To avoid any circumstances to their bubsiness.