Laser Hair Removal

Do you find yourself grimacing, cringing, and rolling your eyes at annoying, pesky areas of hair? Are you tired of shaving, tweezing or waxing unwanted and unsightly hair? And how about those painful ingrown hairs and inevitable razor burn?

Laser hair removal is your ticket to getting rid of that unwanted hair forever. Laser hair removal is fast, cost-effective and permanent. Find out how quickly you can enjoy the luxury and confidence of a smoother and more youthful look, whether it’s a small area (such as a woman’s upper lip or a man’s ears), a large area (such as a woman’s legs or a man’s back) or a sensitive area (such as nipple/areola or pubic areas).

Laser light is transmitted only 1-5 millimeters into the skin. The laser targets the pigment located in the hair follicle and shaft. The light is absorbed by the pigment in the hair follicle and this energy is converted to heat which results in damage to the hair follicle. Because of the highly selective action of the laser light, the hair removal procedure actually works as a two-step process. It is easy to eliminate a hair shaft and its root. Tweezing, waxing, electrolysis, light therapy and low energy lasers will all accomplish this. However, the bulb (the root of the hair follicle) will simply grow a new hair, as long as it receives nourishment from the tiny network of capillaries located directly below it (the papilla). Waxing, tweezing and depilatory creams affect only the hair, not the papilla. These techniques do not permanently disable the hair follicle from producing new hair. For permanent results, the capillaries in the papilla must be disabled. This is accomplished when sufficient heat has built up in the hair bulb (via the attraction of the laser light) to disable the capillaries in the papilla. The heat that permanently disables the papilla is generated by the hair shaft and not by the laser light directly.

All hair grows in cycles that consist of three stages– the Anagen phase (active growth), Catagen phase (resting stage) or Telogen phase (fall-out stage). Hair can only be permanently destroyed in the Anagen (active) phase, as this is the only phase in which the hair is attached to the papilla. At any one time, only a portion of the body’s hair follicles are growing active hair. Therefore, multiple treatments (usually 4-7) are required to achieve completely bare skin. Some people who pursue laser hair removal actually want some hair, but just not as much of it, so they have a few treatments to thin out that area of hair. Unlike electrolysis, which kills one hair follicle at a time, the laser reaches and treats hundreds of follicles at a time, making the treatments very fast and less painful.