Laser hair removal provides longer-term solutions than shaving or waxing; however, some individuals still notice that unwanted hair grows back after treatment.
Normal hair growth and loss cycles occur, with laser treatment damaging only anagen hair follicles during anagen phase. Therefore, multiple sessions may be necessary before all hair follicles have been affected by damage from laser.
What Happens After Treatment?
Laser hair removal uses light wavelengths that target melanin pigment in hair follicles, heating up their melanin content to disable hair follicles so they no longer produce new strands of hair growth. As this process requires multiple treatments to complete successfully, it’s essential that regular follow-up sessions be scheduled after your initial course of laser hair removal treatments have taken place.
Your skin may become slightly red and swollen after treatment, yet there won’t be much downtime afterwards. You should resume normal activities immediately following your session but try to stay out of direct sunlight as this could damage it further.
Before beginning laser treatment, it can be beneficial to apply numbing cream directly onto the area that will be receiving care. This helps make you more comfortable while helping you better withstand its heat.
After your laser treatment, it’s best to avoid waxing, plucking or shaving the area for at least several weeks following. This is because active hair follicles will still promote new growth when their natural cycles restart; any dormant follicles that have shed will shed naturally over time and result in stubble or blackheads appearing afterward, but should not be mistaken as sign of new regrowth.
Long term, laser hair removal significantly decreases the number of follicles capable of growing hair in any given area, as well as shortening each growth cycle significantly, ultimately leading to permanent hair reduction in most patients.
After finishing your laser treatment course, some hair may regrowth a few months later; however, any that does emerge should be finer and lighter in color than before, which usually makes them less visible than initial growth.
Laser hair removal results typically last years, though occasional maintenance treatments will likely be necessary to keep them looking their best. Your dermatologist will suggest how often these should take place, depending on your individual hair growth pattern and treatment course results; some people only require treatments every once or twice annually while others might require multiple visits per year.
How Long Does It Take to See Results?
As hair growth is cyclical, permanent hair reduction requires multiple laser sessions to achieve results. Each treatment heats and damages follicles to stop producing new strands in future treatments – and as a result shed less body hair overall! An aesthetician at Urban Company will assist with determining your optimal treatment plan to ensure optimal outcomes and achieve your desired goals of permanent hair reduction.
Hair growth depends on many different factors, such as hormone levels, prescription medications, and age. While some hair follicles may regrow after laser treatments while others don’t, the majority of people who undergo several sessions usually see lasting effects that last months or even years; when regrowth does return it typically seems less noticeable and usually finer in texture and lighter color than its pretreatment state.
Permanent hair removal is possible, but requires patience and commitment. While some stray hairs may reappear after your initial series of treatments, most won’t. To keep their area completely free from hair growth, many opt to schedule follow-up sessions at regular intervals.
Before receiving laser treatments, it’s best to avoid shaving the area and instead use depilatory cream or wipes to remove any remaining hairs. In addition, avoid tweezing or plucking so all of your locks can be targeted during treatment and achieve optimal results.
Prior to your session, a laser technician will numb the treatment area with topical anesthetic. While this should provide sufficient pain relief, we offer oral anesthetic for additional assistance if necessary.
Your first two to six laser treatments should produce noticeable and lasting results, depending on the area being treated. Each session typically occurs two to six weeks apart depending on where you want treatment done, during which sessions the laser will target and destroy any hair in its active growth phase, while its heat damages some resting phase follicles as well. When they eventually recommence active growth again they won’t produce new thick, dark-colored hair when they return – instead you will experience thinner and lighter colored growth instead.
Will Hair Grow Back After Treatment?
Laser hair removal uses laser energy to target specific pigmented hair follicles, effectively disabling them from producing more hair growth and delaying future growth. It is one of the most efficient solutions available for eliminating unwanted hair as it saves both time and maintenance efforts when used to delay future hair growth and eliminate time consuming methods like shaving, waxing and cream depilatories.
At each treatment session, a professional will use a laser device to direct laser beams directly at your hair follicles. Shaving is recommended before each appointment so that hair follicles are more easily exposed for targeting by the laser and to reduce discomfort during sessions; additionally, as its light energy does not absorb into nearby tissue layers there’s no risk of damage being done to delicate skin tissues by this light energy source.
Laser treatments target hair follicles by hitting their melanin pigment. Darker-colored hair absorbs this light more effectively, which may indicate its success – however, light-colored and darker skin types alike will benefit.
To maximize the effectiveness of laser hair removal treatment, it is necessary to attend regular sessions. The laser only targets hair follicles in their anagen (growth) phase; other phases such as catagen and telogen do not respond. Therefore, treatments will need to continue until your anagen follicles have stopped producing new hair altogether.
As a result of these treatments, you’ll enjoy smoother skin for years without needing to shave or wax regularly. Ingrown hairs and razor bumps will also be reduced as will other common issues related to excess hair growth.
Discover laser hair removal and decide if it is right for you by scheduling an initial consultation at Metro Dermatology in Elmhurst, NY today. We look forward to helping you achieve the skin of your dreams!
What Can I Do to Prevent Hair Regrowth?
Laser hair removal treatments have the potential to produce some permanent hair regrowth; however, when it does return it will likely be much finer and lighter than before treatment due to how the heat from the laser disables hair follicles so as to stop new growth from emerging. How much hair grows back may depend on various factors including hormone levels and genetic predisposition to hair growth.
An epilator can be an effective way to control hair regrowth between laser sessions. Additionally, you should forgo shaving, waxing and tweezing in areas that have undergone laser hair removal – these treatments will interfere with their effectiveness – and opt for electric razor shaver as this method less likely to disrupt hair follicles which could damage skin inflicting permanent scars on them. In order to protect against sun exposure further damage you should also avoid sunbathing after having had laser hair removal on facial features as prolonged sunbathing can darken pigmented spots on skin surface skin layers further darken pigmented layers beneath layers of your skin surface layers affecting pigmented layers beneath.
Laser hair removal can be a long-term solution, though results typically take multiple sessions to show. Your first session may reduce between 10-25 percent of the unwanted hairs; subsequent treatments at four to six week intervals should help further diminish them and stop producing new unwanted follicles from producing unwanted locks.
Retouch treatments may also be necessary to maintain the results of laser hair removal. Our evaluation and consultation service can give a more precise estimation of how many laser treatments will be necessary in order to reach the results that matter most.
Laser hair removal offers a quick and effective solution for combatting unwanted hair growth. Get in touch with us now to arrange an appointment and gain more knowledge about this revolutionary method of thinning out unwanted locks.
