Laser hair removal is an excellent way to permanently eliminate unwanted body hair. Safe and effective treatments allow most patients to achieve permanent removal while reducing the need for shaving, tweezing, waxing or plucking in between treatments.
Laser light targets hair follicles during their anagen phase of growth. Follicles in catagen and telogen phases remain unaffected.
1. Hormones
If you want permanent results from laser hair removal, it is essential that you follow your treatment plan and attend regular touch-up sessions. Unfortunately, hormonal fluctuations can still make hair grow back faster. The reason behind this is due to laser only targeting anagen (growth) phase hair follicles visible on skin so the laser can use heat energy to destroy them more easily than catagen and telogen phase ones which require multiple visits over several months before becoming visible again.
Unbalanced hormones can lead to hair follicles entering anagen phase. Therefore, it’s essential that you eat healthy, exercise regularly and get regular blood tests so as to monitor your hormone levels and detect any imbalances that might exist in them. Your physician may suggest medications or dietary modifications in order to help balance them out.
Reducing hair growth after laser treatments requires eliminating factors that impede its regeneration, such as plucking or waxing, which impedes its ability to regenerate. We advise against this practice after treatments; rather opt for depilatory cream that helps dissolve hair growth instead.
Increased hair regrowth may be a telltale sign of hormonal imbalance, commonly observed among women diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), which results in higher testosterone and androgen production by the follicles and can cause excessive hair growth. To manage PCOS successfully, medication or diet low in sugar may help balance hormones for greater hormonal health and avoid this issue altogether.
2. Stress
Laser treatment for unwanted hair removal is a safe and effective method, targeting dark and thick hairs that are hard to get rid of with shaving, waxing or plucking alone. Lasers focus on targeting pigmentation to heat up hair follicles until they die off – though note that treated follicles won’t disappear completely over time.
Over time, these follicles may repopulate with hair. To avoid this happening again, it’s best not to tweeze, pluck, thread or collect new hairs as they grow; doing this will keep follicles in anagen phase and prevent further hair production.
Note that although your laser treatment may be permanent, touch-up sessions must still take place as your treated follicles will eventually go back into anagen phase and your results from laser treatments begin to diminish.
Unwanted hair may have seemed to disappear, but it could just be entering its telogen phase and hiding beneath your skin. Therefore, it is wise to adhere to a laser treatment program and return for appointments on schedule; waiting too long could result in missed growth cycles which result in even more hair in future cycles.
3. Hormone imbalance
Hormones regulate many aspects of our bodily functioning, and when they become imbalanced they can lead to various symptoms including hair growth. Hormone imbalance can be caused by many things including PCOS (causing elevated testosterone levels), pregnancy/menopause/menopausae medication use/age/lifestyle and health conditions among others.
After receiving laser hair removal treatments, your unwanted hair may grow back thicker. This is due to how lasers affect the base of your follicles; laser treatments can cause them to switch their growth pattern from anagen (active hair growth) to telogen – when hair follicles stop producing new growth but are still active beneath the skin.
At your treatment session, the doctor will press a hand-held laser instrument against the surface of your skin. Its tip may feature cooling devices or gel to minimize side effects and protect your skin. As light from the laser passes through your skin and hits hair follicles, its light will heat them to destruction by heating their bases up. Some follicles might reach that threshold of temperature and fall out; in others however, its base might remain active, continuing its growth cycle.
Your hair grows in cycles, so to keep all of it under control you must receive regular treatments to remove the unwelcome growth. Failing to do so could cause it to enter its telogen phase and remain hidden beneath the surface of your skin if missed treatments go without being scheduled.
4. Electrolysis
Electrolysis hair removal is an innovative permanent hair-reduction treatment method that works on each individual follicle rather than treating an entire area. Electrolysis has proven very safe, being one of the few truly permanent options. Furthermore, this solution works great on all skin types and hair colors — including white and gray locks!
Procedure entails inserting a tiny needle into each hair follicle and passing an electric current through it, to zap away at it and destroy its roots. It should only feel like a slight pinch; there are numbing creams available that can make this treatment even more comfortable.
After treatment, you may experience redness or swelling in the area treated. A cooling aloe vera gel may help alleviate these symptoms. Furthermore, you should try and limit sun exposure as this could lead to hyperpigmentation of your skin.
Finding an experienced electrologist trained and certified for the procedure is important, so do your research and seek recommendations from friends, family members or colleagues. Once you find one make sure to book sessions at their recommended intervals to achieve maximum results.
f you’re experiencing less-than-satifying results from laser treatments, it could be because your hormones are out of balance. Regular blood tests will allow you to monitor hormone levels and lower the likelihood of new hair growth. Furthermore, following a healthy diet and exercise routine as well as minimising stressors like high-sugar processed food intake should help your hormones remain balanced; any continued excess hair growth should eventually be discouraged by laser treatments.
5. Other treatments
Laser hair removal is one of the safest and most effective ways to eliminate unwanted body hair. Utilizing a handheld instrument that emits a beam of light energy onto the skin, laser hair removal uses light energy beams to damage hair follicles and inhibit future growth. Although sessions required depend on hair color, coarseness, area treated and hormonal influences; many clients expect permanent results after five treatments with some degree of permanent hair reduction expected as an outcome – however this can change due to factors like hormone imbalance or prescription medication side-effects that could potentially regrowth occuring post treatment due to these influences and is therefore unpredictable when it comes to permanent results after five laser sessions have taken effect despite what many hope for when considering permanent hair reduction will occur due to reasons such as hormonal imbalance or medication related issues regrowth occurring post treatment; therefore permanent results should be expected after five laser sessions! Unfortunately however there may be occasions where some follicles will regrowth occurs post treatment – but usually permanent results should occur due to hormonal imbalance or prescribed medication side-effects! However this could happen post treatment due to various reasons including hormonal imbalance or even prescription medication side-effects caused by these. Unfortunately this phenomenon often resurfacing post treatment; usually only temporary.
One theory as to why laser treatments work is that it mimics nature’s hair growth cycle. Lasers target only active follicles that are in anagen, or growing new hair phase, while most dormant or catagen follicles will remain unaffected by laser light; any damaged hairs may still regrow albeit finer and lighter in color than before.
No matter if a hair follicle is in its anagen or catagen phase, its growth depends on an adequate blood supply. When blood flow drops too low, new hair production stops or may begin to thin or fine out over time; for this reason it is vital that regular follow-up sessions with your laser technician take place and those taking prescription medicines for hormone imbalance should visit their physician frequently to monitor blood levels – this may also help ensure finer and lighter-colored results after laser.
