Laser Hair Removal in Philadelphia

Laser hair removal treatments can only affect hairs in their growth phase. If you still see hair, it could be that not enough time has passed for the treated hairs to grow themselves out and shed away, or it could be that the hairs you see were not in their active growth phase at the time of your treatment.

Results manifest differently for different people. You should not try to assess your results until you’ve undergone a few treatments, and given your body ample time to slough away the destroyed hair-follicles.

After your treatment, the affected hair-follicles will continue to grow until they reach their peak, at which point they will simply fall out and never regrow.

Once the hairs fall out, it is possible to be left with little dark-remnants of the root’s sheath. Although these take a little longer to grow themselves out, do not worry — these too will eventually disappear.

Simply put, laser hair removal in Philadelphia is an ongoing process that requires multiple sessions in order to destroy all hair follicles during their varying growth phases.

Laser hair removal does permanently kill off the follicles that it treats. However, your body has amazing regenerative abilities which, in the case of laser hair removal, work against you by building new follicles that can grow hair. We recommend maintenance treatments for those who want truly permanent hair removal.

In order to treat all hairs, laser hair removal treatments are preferably scheduled 6-weeks apart. The time between treatments varies per individual, and depends on the body area being treated, skin type, skin color, and responsiveness of the hair.

By removing unwanted hair, you also are preventing future in-grown hairs and acne break-outs! (Oftentimes at the root of a clogged-pore is a trapped hair.) This ancillary benefit is especially helpful if your skin is prone to developing dark-spots as in-grown hairs or acne heals.

Yes! Laser hair removal in Philadelphia is for anyone with pigmented hair and advances in the technology created laser devices that allow fully customizable applications. This lets us safely treat the whole range of skin tones.

The GentleMax Pro device allows for completely customized settings, so that no matter what color your skin is, palest pale, darkest dark, purple, blue or green, you can safely be treated. We repeat: All Skin Colors Can Safely Undergo Laser Hair Removal Treatments at About Face Aesthetics.

Different laser hair removal modalities will cause different physical sensations. You may have heard about the “rubber band snap” that, if we’re being honest, must have been a big rubber band, but today’s technology allows for much more comfortable treatment.

Upon completion, your treated areas may be pink, feel warm, and have tiny little bumps. All of these are completely normal responses to laser hair removal in Philadelphia, and should dissipate within an hour (at the most!).

Although we do offer Brazilian treatments, there are other intimate areas that we do not treat. (Sorry!)

All of our laser hair removal providers are licensed, trained, and experienced medical aestheticians and laser technicians. At the end of the day, our only goal is for you to be happy, and we would never let anyone perform a treatment that wasn’t extremely competent and capable of delivering safe and effective treatments for you.

The length of your laser hair removal treatment in Philadelphia will vary depending on how much body area needs to be covered, and how big your body is. (For example, a standard upper-lip can be as quick as 2-minutes, whereas the full-back of a 6’5″ man can take up to 45 minutes.)

We try to be cognizant of your time, and will do our best to make the process as quick as possible—while still being completely thorough, of course!

On average, a person’s hair cycle follows a 6-week pattern. In an ideal world, you should schedule each of your treatments 6 weeks apart from each other to make sure that each targeted hair follicle is treated during it’s vulnerable growth phase.