I've researched the laser solution, but it sounds like it's not ideal. From what I read, it take a lot of sessions, therefore lots of money, particularly for someone with a thick beard and for who has facial hair that is not black (I'm a red-head), and is then not entirely successful - apparently, there's always going to be patches that persist, and so from then on the beard grows in a patchy manner, making almost daily shaving even more necessary than it was before because a patchy half-grown beard looks way worse than a consistent half-grown beard.

I therefore gave up on that idea as not being the perfect solution that I hoped it might be.