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Usually, wait for two weeks after you have healed form your peel. Thank you for your question and good luck with everything.
As long as your skin has completely healed from your chemical peel, you can have laser hair removal. For best results there should be no residual redness or pigmentation when you have your laser hair removal done.
Depending upon the depth and type of the chemical peel, you should wait at least one to two weeks to have your laser hair removal treatment done provided all signs of inflammation have resolved and there are no signs of increased pigmentation.
Before you spend $$ on peels or IPL, try these topicals. This is called post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH). I recommend Melarase AM and Melarase PM creams from Kare Skin as well as a broad spectrum sunblock like Spectrase. Bothe are from Kare Skin. Scler-x post inflammatory h...
With darker skin types (higher Fitzpatrick levels), one of the keys to successful treatment is being conservative with settings to prevent post-treatment skin discoloration. One of the ways to do this is to use a wider pulse width (one of the parameters on the laser that should be tailored...
Provided your skin is not too dark, IPL treatments work well for achieving 75-90% permanent hair reduction in the bikini area. Bikini hair tends to be thick, dark and fast growing making this area particularly well suited for treatment. Dr. Joseph
