Laser Hair Removal North Vancouver

Shave the area to be treated 24 hrs before the session, this will help to reduce irritation and will make the hair size be ideal to conduct the laser’s energy to the hair’s papillae.

Hair color (melanin) works as the conductor for the laser’s energy, that’s why this treatment does not work for grays or those blondes, almost white hairs. But if your hair is light brown our laser will work, nevertheless you will need more sessions to achieve the goal.

Of course, because the laser’s light will be absorbed not only by the hair melanin but by the skin melanin as well, we need to use less energy in order to avoid damage of your epidermis, so you will need more sessions to achieve the goal.

We have the best technology, virtually painless. During the treatment we’ll encourage you to tell us if the heat is increasing to manage the cool and make your treatment an amazing and painless experience.

Unfortunately no, red hair has a different melanin, instead of eumelanin it has pheomelanin that cannot absorb our laser’s light.

Please, come with the area clean without deodorant or cream. You cannot apply deodorant 24 hrs after the treatment to avoid skin irritation.

Avoid sun exposure for 4 days before and after the treatment and indirect sun exposure 3 to 4 weeks before and after. This means that during all your treatments, it’s best to avoid sun exposure as your skin heals.

It is always best to perform the treatment when your skin color returns to the normal tone, this will allow us to use a higher laser setting to get more efficient results.

Do not use deodorants; do not expose to heat sources like, hot baths, hot tubes, saunas; do not use any substance like, retinol, salicylic acid, glycolic acid, etc., and do not exercise for 24 hrs.

Strictly shaving, because other methods will increase capillary circulation in your skin and promote hair growth.

Every person’s needs are different, the number of treatments varies according to your skin color and hair conditions like, density, hair color and thickness. On average it will take 8 to 10 sessions, including yearly touch ups.

After each treatment you will notice a 15 to 20 percent reduction of hair growth on average. This is because we are targeting hairs in a mature anagen stage or phase. Hair growth has three stages, anagen, catagen and telogen; only in mature anagen stage the hair is in contact with the papillae, the one in charge of hair’s nourishment and the one we want to target.

Because we need to target hair in the mature anagen stage, recommended treatments should be spread out 4 weeks for face; 6 weeks for neck, chest, back, underarms, arms, buttocks and bikini area; and 8 weeks for legs.