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Will Shaving Before Laser Hair Removal Result in Coarse Hair?
They say you have to shave before each your treatment. Will it be stubbly and coarse on your upper lip between treatments? I don't want to walk around with my husband and have a coarse mustache!!
Asked 33 months ago by
Scared Silly in GA
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Shaving before laser treatments
Lasers used for hair removal rely on a beam of high intesity light (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) focused to a specific wavelength (pigment) and target. Important to note that hair grows in cycles or phases (anagen, telogen and catagen) or "growing", dorment, or transitional. Hair in different parts of the body grow at different rates, and also go through growth phases/dormency at different rates.
Lasers are only effective if the hair is in the active...
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Shaving before laser hair removal is necessary.
When undergoing laser hair removal treatments, it is important
that you NOT wax or pluck the hair 4-6 weeks before starting treatment and
in between each treatment session. The reason for this is that the laser
can only be effective if there are hairs in the follicles within your
skin. If you pull the hair out of the follicle as with waxing or
plucking, the laser cannot deliver the desired heat energy to the follicle
because it needs a hair as its target. Therefore, you can see...
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