Laser Hair Removal A Basic Understanding

By Kathlene Capelle

Laser hair removal is one of the newest cosmetic procedures available today. The process is to permanently remove hair from any part of your body that you wish by the use of a light at a designated wavelength, which is projected into the skin by way of a laser hand held instrument.

What the laser accomplishes, after it's reached into the interior of the skin, is to focus on the hair's pigment. The laser destroys the follicle of the hair but does not damage the remaining hair tissue around it.

While can be quite effective and has been so for many, it is new, and, as compared with older hair removal treatments, relatively untested. What this means is that we really don't know yet just how safe or unsafe it might be and the potential for side effects. The other issue with the newness of this process is that no one has used it for long enough to have continuity of statistics that would indicate the rate of response to the treatment and the rate at which the hair grows back after each treatment.

Two of the most important elements to consider in qualifying potential candidates are skin color and hair color.

1. Skin Colour. Light skin makes easier to perform. Due to the lighter pigmentation, the results happen more quickly. Fewer treatments are required, and better, faster results are obtained. People with darker skin can be treated, but results are slower. They just have to be content with the knowledge that it will take longer to see results and a greater number of treatments are probably going to be needed.

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