Help - I’m About To Have A Hair Laser Removal Session For The First Time!
Posted in Self-Esteem by admin on October 16th, 2008
Your very first laser hair removal appointment can be exhilirating or nerve-wracking or both! Here is a handy checklist of things to think about:
Four weeks or more in advance
Talk about pain management with your laser hair removal clinic and decide on a plan.
There are topical anesthetics such as EMLA, which you apply to your skin. These products are very valuable if you are concerned about pain during the treatment, however do be careful if you are spreading it on large areas of skin as the chemicals are absorbed into the bloodstream. Ensure you follow the guidelines with care.
Lose your tan! The paler your skin is at the time you get your laser hair removal treatment, the more successful and long lasting your results from laser hair removal are likely to be.
It’s important to stop using depilation creams, waxing, epilating, sugaring and tweezing a minimum of 2 weeks before treatment, and ideally a month or more prior. These depilation methods interfere with the root that the laser hair removal treatment aims to blast.
Decide whether you want to take photos of the body areas you are having treated to monitor your progress. The clinic may do this but even so you may want to take some too.
The week of your appointment
Post treatment side effects are reasonably rare, as long as your hair laser removal appointment is with a reputable clinic who have properly serviced systems and well trained staff. However your skin will most likely be red after the appointment so if you are getting facial laser hair removal then you might want to think about the option of whether you need to take the rest of the day off your job if you’re at all concerned about others realizing you had some treatment done.
24 Hours to go!
Now is a perfect time to shave the body areas you are going to have laser hair removal carried out on. If you shave within 24 hours of the treatment you will experience less pain and it can also be more successful because less of the laser energy is used pointlessly on torching the hair above the skin, meaning a greater proportion of the laser energy is directed where it is required, at the root, to kill it off.
On the morning
If you are having your underarms lasered, give the deodorant a miss. Just wash your underarms with soap and rinse properly. If it’s a hot day and there’s a danger you might get too sweaty before your appointment, you could use unscented baby wipes to remove any smells.
For any body areas, don’t put lotions or creams on before laser hair removal.
20 minutes prior to your appointment
For those of us who get a bit concerned at the thought of pain from laser hair removal, taking two pain killers at this point seems like a really good idea - just to be on the safe side!
Wishing you a successful and relaxing hair laser removal treatment!
Ingrid Preube
laser facial hair removal
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