We've all nicked ourselves shaving or had a bad waxing experience and vowed to look into permanent hair reduction, right?
But it wasn't until I was diagnosed with poly-cystic ovaries - a condition that affects one in ten women in the UK - that my hair growth got out of control.
After years of bulk buying razors, making friends with my threading lady and utilising just about every other means of hair removal, I ended up with unsightly stubbly shadows and having to dig out bumpy ingrown hairs was just a part of my every day beauty routine.
Holidays abroad started to become more trouble than they were worth, and after seeing my friends having the time of their life in Cyprus without me, I finally bit the bullet and booked in for laser hair removal that month.