Facial Hair Removal
Unwanted or excess facial hair can be an embarrassing problem for
both women and men. Women with facial hair suffer from feeling less
feminine and can be uncomfortable with their appearance. Men may prefer
to remove excess hairs from their eyebrows or just prefer to have a
smooth facial appearance without shaving.
Facial hair
removal is most commonly accomplished by plucking, electrolysis,
shaving, and waxing. Plucking facial hair sometimes has to be done
daily to maintain smooth skin. It can cause discoloration, or infection
of the hair follicles. Electrolysis can be expensive, and can also
discoloration or infection of the hair follicles. Electrolysis can be
handy for the straggler hairs at the end of the full laser treatment
cycle, however. Shaving can leave women and men with a five-o-clock
shadow. Depilatories can be irritating. Finally waxing can cause
redness, and irritation.
Excess facial hair can be
caused by genes (most commonly), hormones or age. Women with hormonal
imbalances, or other conditions such as polycystic ovarian disease
should have their hormones balanced under the supervision of a medical
doctor before undergoing laser hair removal for facial hair. Many women
get more facial hair as they age. Likewise, many men get excess hair on
their ears as they get older.
Unfortunately, most
facial hair removal methods such as shaving, waxing, or electrolysis
require outgrowth before removing the unwanted hair. No one wants to
have to walk around with facial hair that they find embarrassing
in-between hair removal appointments. With laser hair removal you can
come in shaved clean, but remember not to use any other methods for
about a month before your laser hair removal appointment.
Facial
hair removal by laser requires very little time. Upper lip takes about
5 minutes. A full face takes about 15 minutes. Sessions are repeated
approximately once a month and patients typically need 4-6 sessions. As
people age they may want to remove new facial hairs by laser.
Laser hair removal offers men and women a relatively pain free, low time commitment option to remedy unwanted facial hair.
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