Shaving legs, plucking hairs in the underarms and bikini area, tweezing eyebrows and shaving legs can become tedious and time consuming tasks that become cumbersome over time. Laser hair removal offers an efficient solution.
Patients seeking laser treatments should refrain from plucking and waxing as these techniques disrupt hair follicles, potentially leaving their skin sensitive and puffy during treatment. Some individuals compare it to a rubber band snapping against your skin.
Facial Hair
Face hair removal can be one of the best solutions to unwanted facial hair growth. Peach fuzz around the chin or cheeks or an unshaven 5 o’clock shadow are embarrassing enough, but laser hair removal offers another solution to create smooth and beautiful facial skin.
Laser hair removal sessions typically last only a few minutes. Your practitioner will begin by cleaning and applying numbing gel before using laser technology to target dark pigment in hair follicles, ultimately leading to hair falling out and not growing back – permanently eliminating unwanted hair.
When selecting the practitioner to treat your face, it is crucial that they be both educated and experienced. Make sure they are registered with an organization demonstrating they fulfill certain training, skill and insurance standards before using any treatment that exposes you directly to sunlight or use sunscreens with high SPF levels before beginning treatments.
Individuals with darker hair usually benefit most from laser treatments as their melanin helps absorb light energy. However, lasers can be used on all skin colors – even those who have lighter-toned skin than their hair may need multiple sessions and change types of laser for maximum success.
Chest
Men with thick chest hair often find the process of shaving tiresome and painful, leading to razor burn, rashes or infected hair follicles. Now however, laser treatment offers a solution: clean, hairless chest.
Laser hair removal performed correctly by an experienced physician assistant or licensed aesthetician is a quick, comfortable, and permanent way to remove unwanted chest hair. Additionally, it reduces sweat production while eliminating ingrown hairs that arise as an unfortunate side effect of shaving or waxing.
Before beginning laser hair removal on your chest, it’s essential that you shave the area (rather than plucking or waxing as this will remove hairs directly from their follicle). Furthermore, for six weeks post-treatment it is advised to avoid direct sun exposure and gently exfoliate three times weekly to aid the healing process of your skin.
Every laser hair removal session aims to target dark pigments within your follicles and disrupt their natural growth cycle, so that hair returns finer, lighter, and slower than before (and eventually stops growing altogether). While some individuals experience mild to moderate discomfort during treatments – which will vary depending on individual pain threshold – Zimmer Cryo may make the experience more comfortable.
Back
Since shaving your legs, tweezing your chin and bikini area, and waxing brows is time-consuming, you may spend too much of it keeping away unwanted body hair. If this process leaves you frustrated by nicking your skin with razor burns or ingrown hairs, consider laser treatment to permanently eliminate unwanted body hair; results from even one session are long-term!
At your treatment session, you will wear protective goggles. Before applying the laser beam to the treatment site, a technician will apply topical cream that numbs it first and can last from several minutes up to an hour depending on its size and location. Some users report experiencing mild discomfort similar to when a rubber band snaps against your skin.
All contributing experts recommend shaving prior to laser treatment, not just out of convenience but because this shortens hair follicles and makes them easier for laser to target. Sunless tanning should also be avoided prior to beginning this procedure.
Laser hair removal works well on all Fitzpatrick skin types except patients with blonde, gray or white hair and light-colored skin (Skin Type V). If this combination occurs in you, treatment might be less effective and you could be at an increased risk for side effects, including pigmentation changes to the skin which could include hypopigmentation, which means color fades away, or hyperpigmentation, where darker areas appear.
Buttocks
Men and women looking for relief from shaving, waxing, plucking or using creams to remove body hair can now benefit from expert laser hair removal in the buttocks and bikini area with no downtime and long-term or even permanent results.
The CoolGlide system employs light energy to selectively target and destroy hair follicles in their active growth stage of their cycle, using pigment in their cells to absorb light that damages it permanently, rendering hair production impossible. Plus, its cooling design offers comfort to soothe skin as treatments proceed, making treatments as tolerable as possible.
Buttock pain may be caused by any number of diseases, disorders and injuries; typically minor strains and overuse respond well to home treatments using rest, ice packs and over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medication; however, if pain persists it is best to consult a physician.
Myofascial pain syndrome, with painful muscle knots known as trigger points that produce sharp pain when touched gently, is one of the primary sources of buttock discomfort. Piriformis syndrome also frequently contributes to buttock discomfort by spasming and irritating sciatic nerve, leading to pain in buttock, leg and other regions of body as a whole; other possible sources include spinal fractures, cauda equina syndrome or pelvic inflammatory disease.
Breasts
Women experiencing breast hair growth often turn to laser hair removal as a safe and effective solution to reduce unwanted hair. Compared to waxing or shaving, laser treatment is virtually pain-free – in fact, many patients describe the feeling as something like tiny rubber bands flicking their skin.
An aesthetician will press a handheld device against your skin and activate a laser light, disabling hair follicles in that area and stopping further growth. After treatment, some individuals may experience redness, swelling or small bumps which usually subside within days; to alleviate discomfort further they can apply cold compresses or take over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen to help ease discomfort.
Before an appointment with a laser professional, patients must refrain from tanning the area to be treated. Exposure to sunlight may result in burning, hyperpigmentation and scarring from laser use on exposed skin; in extreme cases some professionals will refuse treatment and ask the client to reschedule.
Men and women typically require six to eight treatments spaced four to eight weeks apart in order to reach their desired results. While it may be possible that some hair may return post-treatment due to hormonal fluctuations, touch-up sessions should be straightforward.
Stomach
Men and women suffering from excess hair growth on their stomach may benefit from laser treatment to permanently decrease this growth. Excess hair may be due to hormonal imbalances or simply having too much hair, among other reasons. Shaving and waxing may cause razor burn and rashes while laser hair removal is virtually pain-free and will leave the area smooth.
Laser hair removal treatments typically last anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or more, depending on the area being treated. While pain tolerance varies from patient to patient, most find the procedure well tolerated. Some experience snapping sensations similar to rubber band snapping against skin after treatment while some experience temporary swelling or redness afterward; to alleviate symptoms some choose applying cold compresses afterwards.
Laser hair removal can be used to safely remove hair from many parts of the body, but is ineffective on tanned or darkly pigmented skin or for blonde, gray or white hair. Furthermore, people taking certain medications or with medical conditions like genital herpes should not undergo laser hair removal.
