One side effect of laser hair removal treatment in my experience is small whiteheads appearing on treated areas. Treated hairs may curl up and continue growing downwards, blocking the follicle resulting in a zit. Lightly exfoliating the skin with a loofah during a shower can help to alleviate this while gently helping to remove dead or dying hairs that were zapped during last treatment.
You might want to wait several days after treatment however for the skin reddening to subside. Research has shown that plucking hairs close together might actually stimulate hair growth with a phenomenon known as quorum sensing as this article from NCBI shows.
So there is some evidence that tweezing may actually promote the growth of hair rather than disrupting or eliminating the growth cycle. The laser hair removal process attempts to kill the ability of as many hair follicles as possible to regrow hair. Disrupting this process by plucking hairs may actually do more harm than good.
Laser hair removal heats the hair down to the bottom of the hair follicle to a degree that is harmless relatively to the outer skin but destructive to the hair and follicle itself.
With each laser treatment, you attempt to destroy the ability of as many hair follicles as possible to regrow a new hair while not damaging the skin. There is some pain felt when doing laser treatment but the design of modern lasers is to focus the energy of the laser to the bottom of the hair follicle to destroy its ability to grow new hair.
Over time, laser machines have become more adept at safely and successfully treating a wider group of people including all colors and tones of skin but still generally work best on dark hair.
Laser hair removal is a fine balance of providing enough light energy to destroy hair follicles while leaving the outer skin undamaged other than superficial short term skin irritation and reddening. Some hairs might begin to fall out immediately.
Other hairs may need several days or longer to fall out. You may notice hairs falling out two weeks after treatment. Laser hair removal clinics generally feel that a follow up laser hair removal appointment 6 weeks later is ideal. And in case you were wondering, the time of year — the season — you get laser hair removal treatment done no longer matters either, something I discuss in the article link you just read above.
Scheduling laser hair removal appointments once every 6 weeks is your best bet. It enables hairs that were treated to fall out and for new previously dormant hairs to grow and be treated the next time you have a laser appointment. If you had laser hair removal appointments every week or two, hairs from the previous treatment would still be falling out. Laser hair removal only works on hair in the growth phase. Hair can only be treated by laser when it is showing above the skin, too.
Shaving will only take off the hair on the surface of the skin and will not directly affect the hair follicle. It is recommended that you avoid shaving the area you have treated for the first few days after treatment.
This allows the area to heal better and helps to stop inflicting the area with anymore trauma. After around four days you can start shaving any hair, which re-grows. You can also use your shaving pattern as a guide to how well you laser hair removal treatment is working.
Follow these tips for shaving before each laser session:. Immediately after your laser hair removal appointment, you might feel a slight burning sensation around the treated area.
This sensitivity will likely only last a few hours, but shaving the area right away further increases your irritation. Follow these tips to get the best results after your laser treatments :. Permanently removing your unwanted body hair will leave you with smooth, flawless skin finally free of razor bumps and irritation. Body Details offers the best permanent hair removal services around! Posted on March 26, by Paul A. Book a Free Consultation. Between treatments, there can still be plenty of visible hair, and this in between period can be quite uncomfortable.
Between laser hair removal sessions, which are usually spaced weeks apart, clients might look for ways to remove the hair that is still there, but there is only one way in which this hair can be removed, and there is an explanation why. After a laser hair removal session, hairs will typically shed and the treated area will be hair free for a couple of weeks, until it is time for the untreated hairs to grow.
During this period it might be tempting to wax or pluck these hairs, but there is strong reason not to. Once the laser hair removal sessions has started, most clinics will advise their clients to only shave between sessions. During shaving, only the hair on the surface is removed and the hair root remains intact.
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