What Everyone Ought To Know About Permanent Laser Hair Removal In NJ

What Everyone Ought To Know About Permanent Laser Hair Removal In NJ

Women and men have been suffering for millennia with unwanted hair on their face and body. The recorded history on this goes back to thousands of years.

It has been reported that Cleopatra used waxing and sugaring on herself.

While for men it was prestigious to have body hair, the Romans, Greeks and Egyptian Royal women considered it to be a sign of beauty to have smooth skin. While those hair removal methods were not only temporary but also were fraught with side effects from skin irritation, ingrown hair and pigmentation issues especially in those with not so perfect pale milky skin. In the last few decades, we now have a more permanent solution without those undesirable side effects.

Enter Non Surgical Facelift NJ. It was more of an accidental discovery of using the property of certain wavelengths of lasers to target and destroy certain colors, called chromophores. Hence those that can target black and brown colors, as in melanin, could now be used for laser hair removal, as the hair follicles are rich in melanin. Ruby laser 694 nm, Diode 800 -810 nm, Alexandrite 755 nm and Nd: Lasers 1064 nm, that target melanin could now

be used to destroy the hair follicles, more permanently, to achieve permanent laser hair removal in NJ. Since Ruby laser does not penetrate very deep, it was not found to be very efficient in targeting hair follicles which are usually deep. Now the Ruby lasers are predominantly used for only tattoo removal of certain colors.

For hair removal for a lighter skin (who also tend to have thinner and lighter hair) Alexandrite laser is found to be the best, as it also penetrates deeper than Ruby laser, but not as deep as Diode and Nd YAG lasers, but Alexandrite has the maximum affinity to melanin compared to Diode and YAG and hence is more efficient if the skin type is suitable. Thinner hair tends to be more superficial. And even in those with lighter skin at Anara Medspa we like to use different wavelengths of lasers to target hair follicles at different depths.

Alexander lasers cannot be safely used in darker skin people, tanned skin and in those with recent sun exposure, however. Though the literature mentions Diode laser to be more effective in long term hair reduction, experience at Anara Medspa of performing more than 60,000 procedures over 13 years reveals that long term reduction can be achieved with all the 3 lasers, and some good quality IPLs. This may be more of user dependent and experience than anything else.

It is important to differentiate between “permanent hair removal” versus “permanent hair reduction”. Lasers and some good quality IPLs can achieve a long-term reduction in the number of hair follicles, but do not guarantee that one would not need maintenance touch ups. After going through a rapid reduction in the total number of hair follicles with a series of laser sessions, one would require maintenance sessions a few times a year. The number of times a year one needs maintenance sessions on face tends to be more relative to the body, sometimes even in the same person. Experience with Permanent Laser Hair Removal in NJ at Anara Medspa shows that Bikini, lower legs and under arms tend to respond the best and the fastest.