Even if you remove unwanted hair through shaving, waxing, or electrolysis, this is a losing battle. Today, years after the first hair removing laser was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, doctors and day spas are touting laser hair removal as the best way to achieve hairless lips, bikini lines, legs, and backs. For this kind of treatment, people are spending more than $1 billion every year making it one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures today.
But while laser treatment is by far the most effective option, it won't get rid of unwanted body hair entirely. The best and barest results require numerous treatments and can end up costing thousands of dollars.
If they have certain skin types, people might suffer scarring and pigment changes. For such a procedure, in the wrong hands it can lead to burns and blisters.
What the laser targets is the melanin pigment in the hair follicle. After the laser is flashed across the skin, it ignores the lighter skin surface and instead zooms into the dark follicle, beats it up, and kills it but the skin is not harmed in any way.
You cannot expect it to zap all hair but with a series of treatments it can permanently reduce much of it, about 30 to 75 percent within one year. What is often left is hair that is lighter, finer, and easier to control, Most people need at least four to six treatments over about three months for a noticeable improvement. In this case, growing hair is targeted by the lasers and at any given time a number of body hairs are dormant or dead.
It is laser hair removal that is ideal for patients with light skin and dark hair. Here, lasers don't work on grey hair and rarely on blonde hair. Considering how they target pigment, lasers don't work well on people with dark or tanned skin.
For them to see how an individual's skin and hair responds to the treatment, doctors usually perform test patches. If the skin of a patient tans easily and easily burns, he should visit a doctor who specializes in hair removal on darker skin.
It will be easy for experienced doctors to treat darker skinned patients but hair removal usually takes longer and is often less effective. It is important not to have hair removed if your skin is tanned.
Considering lasers, they can be great but also a dangerous thing in the wrong hands. In a recent survey, about half of dermatologists said they were increasingly repairing damage caused by laser hair removal.
If hair removal is offered only on certain days since the laser is under a rental arrangement, it could be a red flag. When it comes to this, if they're renting a laser once a week, they experience might be questioned.
According to most people, the treatment feels like a rubber band snapping against the skin. When a treatment hurts more, it is a good sign that it's not being done properly. What doctors use are cooling sprays, gels, or lasers with cooling tips.
Although the skin will clear up, the skin may be red or crusty first. Running to about $300 to $700 per session is the cost of a bikini line and that for a man's back will amount to $1,000 or more per treatment but some people need as much as eight to ten sessions.
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