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IS IT WORTH GETTING BURNED FROM THE SIDE EFFECTS OF LASER HAIR REMOVAL?

As a light skinned person, who is interested in getting “Laser Hair Removal”, I am always looking into the potential benefits, and the side effects, -especially, the possibility that I might be “burned”!

(By the way, I have experienced many, different side effects from most of the other “safe and traditional” hair removal methods)!

First, I will weigh the possible side effects of “Laser Hair Removal. Finally, I hope to decide if I’m going to “bet the farm”, by trying the ‘latest and greatest’, “Laser Hair Removal” methods!

PLEASE, before listing the possible side effects, I would hope that a person uses: “common sense”: I sure hope that after reading this article, that a person will be more encouraged to choose a doctor with: the right credentials, along with a good track record (and, -not just because they’re the cheapest doctors in town)!

(1) FIRST SIDE EFFECT: I have read that there are short-term side effects, including redness and swelling. These are usually temporary and, as a rule -go away within one week.

(2) SECOND SIDE EFFECT: One should note that a person can truly get burned, from having this procedure -and not just from your burning pocket book! It is a rare, but strange phenomenon that (usually darker) people’s skin can get burned, if the skin absorbs the laser rays, instead of the hair follicle. You see, the darker skin absorbs the sun’s rays (when tanning) -so, I guess it makes some sense that this might happen while receiving “Laser Hair Removal”. What will happen if the skin does burn? Well, I will now try to explain this, along with other “Laser Hair Removal” side effects:

(3) THIRD SIDE EFFECT: This third, and more permanent side effect of “blotching” (or changes in pigment) can happen (especially, with darker skin). Thankfully, they say that this side effect, rarely happens! I will define the two types of changes in pigment, that may occur: “Hyper-pigmentation and Hypo-pigmentation. Hyper-pigmentation is defined as: the darkening of skin that might occur after laser hair removal treatment (similar to getting an “uneven suntan”). The opposite of the “uneven suntan effect”, is called: Hypo-pigmentation, which is defined: the lightening of skin that might (rarely) happen, after a laser hair removal treatment.

(4) FOURTH SIDE EFFECT: The “Laser Hair Removal” method does not completely (or permanently) remove the hair, as promised. Note: These ads also say that

We’ve all heard, by now, that doctors can use lasers to remove hair from the human body. However, most people don’t know very much about laser hair removal. You can probably think of quite a variety of questions about laser hair removal right off the top of your head. For example, you might wonder things such as, “How does laser hair removal work? How long does it take? How much does laser hair removal cost? Is it dangerous? What are the risks of laser hair removal?” Here are the basics of what you need to know about laser hair removal:

* How laser hair removal works. Laser hair removal works by sending a pulse of high-energy laser light into the skin. The laser beam targets the melanin pigment that is contained in every hair shaft. Once the laser hits the hair shaft, it tells the hair follicle that it should go into a state known as the telogen, or resting phase. In this phase, hair grows extremely slowly.

* Because laser hair removal sends the message to the hair follicle to go dormant, it doesn’t necessarily stop the hair follicle from ever growing again. Routine maintenance laser hair removal treatments are generally necessary to keep the hair from coming back.

* There is a danger of damaging the skin around the hair follicle. The darker a patient’s skin is,t he more likely that this damage could occur. There are a variety of different types of lasers, however, that are designed specifically for thicker or thinner hair, and for lighter or darker skin.

* Laser hair removal treatments usually number about three to five. These treatments are generally given at least four but no more than eight weeks apart. The maintenance treatments mentioned previously may occur yearly, or even longer apart depending on the individual.

* If you are considering laser hair removal, try to find a practitioner that is experienced. The process of laser hair removal requires quite a bit of precision and a good eye for what exactly needs to be done, and someone who has been doing it longer will likely be more accurate and run less risk of damaging the skin.

While it’s acceptable for men to sprout hair all over the place, women are obliged to devote a large part of their lives diligently removing it. Whether it’s plucking, shaving, threading, waxing or trimming, no matter what we do to remove the stuff, it insists on growing back again. Fortunately, there is another more permanent method which enables you to remove unwanted hair forever. It’s called the Boots Smooth Skin laser hair removal system and you can use it in the privacy of your own home.

What is the Boots Smooth Skin hair remover?

The Boots Smooth Skin hair removal system is a small laser machine which is designed for home use. It uses iPulse Hair Reduction Technology and is a mini version of the machines which are used in salons. The machine consists of a base unit and hand held laser which must be connected to mains electricity. It’s only 24cm tall by 18cm wide in size and comes complete with a smart cream colored storage vanity case.

What is IPL?

Intense Pulse Light Therapy (IPL) is an advanced form of light-based beauty therapy which can be used to permanently remove hair. By generating a short, intense pulse of filtered light into the skin, the colored pigments around the hair absorb the light, which disables the hair follicle, preventing further re-growth.

Who can use it?

Unfortunately, the system isn’t suitable for everyone. Because the light pulses work best on dark hair follicles growing from a fair skinned person, this makes it unsuitable for those with very fair, red, grey or white hair. It also rules out those who are dark skinned or with a suntan. However, if you are a light skinned person with blond hair, but have darker hair in places you’d rather not, you could use this system.

Where on the body can it be used?

You can use the iPulse system to remove hair from any part of the body where there is hair growth. However, you are strongly recommended not to use it on areas such as the head or eyebrows, as hair will not grow back! Ideally, it’s best used on the legs, underarms, bikini line and darker facial hair.

How do you use it?

It’s very easy to use. First you must trim or shave any hair you wish to remove, then cover the skin with the special activator gel, which is best stored in the fridge so it’s nice and cold. You should also cover any moles or freckles with something such as a white eye pencil to block the light. After setting it to your skin type, you must wait for the indicator light to let you know it’s

Laser hair removal is the method of permanently removing or reducing hair using a process called “Selective Photothermolysis”. Selective Photothermolysis refers to the process of killing a certain selected structure (in this case the hair follicle) using heat that is generated by a beam of light. It is selective, because the light is only absorbed by certain structures, in this case the hair stub that is located in the bulb of the hair follicle. In electrolysis, the hair follicle is destroyed by an electric current that is inserted into the follicle through a small needle.

Because laser hair removal works by creating heat through the absorption of a light beam, whether it works or not depends on how effectively that light is absorbed by the hair in the follicle. The substance that absorbs this light energy is melanin, which is the brown pigment found in hair as well as skin. The best results are obtained when the hair is dark and thick, and surrounded by white skin. Waxing, tweezing or plucking, or using depilatories removes the hair from the follicle and this will make laser hair removal completely ineffective. Laser hair removal is also completely ineffective on blond, gray, or white hair and sometimes with lighter red hair as well. Small, finer hairs are difficult to remove with laser, but good results can often be obtained with shorter pulse-widths and higher fluence levels.

In order for laser hair removal to be effective, it is also extremely important to stay on schedule with the treatments. Since the laser only affects hair that are in the active part of the anagen stage of hair growth, the practitioner will schedule your sessions according to this hair growth cycle. If you miss an appointment, you need to reschedule it within a week of when it originally was scheduled or you will probably have to start all your laser treatments over again, and you will be unhappy with the results.

For darker skinned people, such as Hispanic, middle-eastern, Asian, or black people, a long-pulsed or variable pulsed Nd:Yag laser will get better results, be less painful, and safer. This laser has the ability to distinguish between the melanin in the hair and the melanin in the skin, which results in more laser energy being delivered to the hair rather than being dissipated through the surrounding skin tissue.

Laser hair removal technology has been around for well over ten years now, and has proven itself to be a very effective method of removing or reducing unwanted hair permanently.

Unwanted hair, one of women’s worst nightmares! Currently a lot of men and women are recurring to many types of ways to remove their unwanted facial and body hair; razors, wax, tweezing and creams. But not all of us are aware, and if we are, are not so sure about doing it, of laser hair removal. Does it really work? How long does it last? Well, here’s the scoop.

Laser hair removal is the usage of laser energy to greatly reduce hair production. They do this by producing heat upon the hair and introducing it into the hair follicle which inflammates it and sends it into a “resting stage”. Doing this is a little tricky in terms of time, the laser has to be upon our hair long enough to heat the hair but not too long that it actually begins to damage our skin, concurrently burning it. This is why there are three types of laser hair removal depending on our skin type and thickness of our hair.

One of the laser hair removal systems, Sona laser hair removal consists of piercing our skin with a strong laser and removing the root of the hair. The second type of laser hair removal would be Alase laser hair removal debilitates the hair root stimulating re growth of thinner and finer hair thus increasing treatments until hair is completely gone. The last system, Epila laser hair removal, which is a personal system we can use in our own homes, emits the same kind of laser as the first two systems, but it does not work on very dark skin types.

Sometimes we may think that because it is a laser treatment, there are only so many of our body parts they can be produced on because of skin sensitivity and laser strength. But really, we can have laser hair removal on most of our body parts. Treatment areas mainly consist of bikini line hair, facial hair, underarms, back hair, arms, legs, chest and abdominal hair removal.

Now, while laser hair removal system can be effective, it can also be a little costly, prices ranging from $429 to $900 depending on the area or areas we desire to be treated. Also need to be taken into mind is the quantity of treatments needed to be completely successful, thus price ranging increasing over this.

As I said before, depending on the quantity of the treatment we will know how much it’s going to cost us, so how many treatments do we need to have in order to have our hair fully removed? Hair Removal Journal 2006 advises us that up to three treatments will be able to give us good results, averaging from person to person.

No matter which method we choose to remove our unwanted hair we should always make sure to talk to our physicians about it and make sure we choose an experienced laser hair removal doctor to ensure the safety of our skin and of ourselves.