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How Does IPL Hair Removal Remove Ingrown Hair?
I was told that the ingrown hair will be removed by either IPL or laser hair removal. I want to know, will IPL hair removal or laser hair removal get rid of ingrown hairs or razor bumps completely? I have a lot of very deep ingrown hairs around my bikini area, so how can IPL or laser remove them when the skin is closed? I want to know how it works. Thank you.
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baran in Dubai
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How Laser Hair Removal Works
Hi Baran,
Here is how the laser hair removal process works:
Each hair is "fed" by a very small vein that enters the hair follicle at the base or "bulb". This bulb is the thickest and darkest part of the hair. When laser light is fired into the skin, the dark bulb of the hair follicle absorbs most of the light in the same way that a black shirt absorbs sunlight on a sunny day. This in turn heats up the bulb of the hair follicle to the point where the vein that...
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Laser hair removal removes hair permanently so it can't grow in
Laser hair removal causes the hair follicle to shrink and the hair to fall out. If you do it enough times and at the appropriate energy level, it will shrink the follicle completely so that the hair doesn't grow back after it falls out. If there's no hair in the follicle, it can't become ingrown.
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