Testimonial #1

Karen's Krazy 3

This testimonial deals exactly with the main theme of my blog.  I currently work at an office in Orem, Utah and one of my co-workers gave me the idea for this blog.  

As we were sitting in our training class we somehow wandered on to the topic of laser hair removal.  My co-worker Karen started talking about her personal experience with laser hair removal.  She has a close friend that was starting a laser salon here in Utah and one of the perks to that was that she was going to be able to get free treatments.  As Karen was finishing up her second treatment her friend told her that she was going to be putting the business on hold because she was scheduled to have her baby within the next two weeks. Generally to get rid of the hair completely, a minimum of seven sessions is recommended.  She explained that she basically wasted her time by not going to all of the sessions.  If you are going to start using laser hair removal to get rid of that gross body hair, I would recommend that you go to all of your sessions because otherwise, you're not going to benefit at all.  

Here are some parameters that should be included when considering laser hair removal for you or a loved one:

• Area of body treated
• Skin color
• Coarseness of hair
• Reason for hirsutism
• Gender

 Coarse dark hair on light skin is easiest to treat. Hair on darker skin is harder to treat. Certain areas (notably men's faces) may require considerably more treatments to achieve desired results. The main reason multiple sessions are needed is that hair grows in several phases (anagen, telogen, catagen) and a laser can only affect the currently active growing hair follicles (anagen), so several sessions are needed to kill hair in all phases of growth. This problem is countered by spacing appointments sufficiently so that inactive follicles will start to grow again. Laser does not work well on light-colored hair, red hair, grey hair, white hair, as well as fine hair of any color, such as vellus. For darker skin patients with black hair, the long-pulsed Nd: YAG laser with a cooling tip can be safe and effective when used by an experienced practitioner, or else the newer diode based laser systems such as the Soprano XL Blue laser have also been shown to be effective and safe on darker skin types.

In my next blog I will be explaining the details on the different phases of hair growth.  Come check it out!!

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