Lifecycle Of A Hair Follicle
Anagen (the growth stage) The hair is thickest and darkest, so laser treatments are most effective.
Catagen (the transitional stage) The hair begins to loosen from its follicle.
Telogen (the resting stage) The hair is resting and remains in its follicle but is not actively growing.
Exogen (the shedding stage) The hair is released from its follicle and falls out.
The hairs on your body are not always at the same stage, so you will need to set up a customized treatment plan designed for you.
How Gentle Hair Removal Works
Gentle Hair Removal laser targets the hair follicle at the root, delivering a burst of gentle energy and therapeutic heat to provide permanent hair reduction over the course of a few treatments. In additional super-fast treatment times, Gentle Hair Removal ensures additional comfort through its patented Dynamic Cooling Device™, which uses cooling bursts of liquid cryogen for gentle laser hair removal treatment available today!
How Do I Prepare For A Gentle Hair Removal Treatment?
For about six weeks prior to treatment, you should avoid plucking or waxing.
On the day of your treatment, skin should be clean-shaven and thoroughly cleansed of any makeup, creams, oils, topical anesthetics or self-tanning products.
Do not expose the treatment area to sunlight or tanning booth light prior to or immediately after treatment.
Pre Treatment Instructions
- No tanning and/or fake tans from spray on, creams or products that tan.
- No waxing, tweezing, threading, creams or depilatories. Trimming or shaving is fine.
- Shave the whole area to be treated, the evening or am before your appointment. Get close but do not cut your skin. Heat up the new shaver for a minute under hot water, this helps to soften the razor.
- On the day of treatment no lotion, makeup, perfume and deodorant should be used on the areas to be treated and be clean.
- If you are taking Accutane, or have taken it in the last 6 months please discuss with practitioner before your appointment day.
- If you are taking any antibiotics, please discuss with practitioner before your appointment day.
- Avoid laser hair removal after a facial treatment or injectables for 1 week.
- Avoid laser hair removal while pregnant or nursing. Check with your doctor, nurse or healthcare professional.
Post Treatment Instructions
- No tanning after treatment. If you are going on vacation after treatment, use SPF 30, protect your skin and cover up the area(s) treated.
- No waxing, tweezing, threading, creams or depilatories. Shaving is fine.
- No vigorous exercising for the rest of the day after treatment.
- No lotion, makeup, perfume and deodorant should be used on the areas treated for 24 hours.
- No very hot shower but a warm shower is recommended to remove hair debris and cooling spray.
- No swimming in chlorine water for 24 hours.
- After treatment, you may experience redness, swelling or irritation which subsides within a few hours or longer.
- First week after the treatment avoid exfoliating the treated area.
- One to four weeks after the treatment, you should experience shedding of hair in the treated areas. At first, it will feel like the hairs are growing back in or little black hair dots stuck under the skin, but these are the treated hairs coming through the skin and will shed off.
- (Optional) Gently exfoliate in the shower with a cleanser and white wash cloth is recommend during the shedding process. You can shave off these falling hairs if need.
See Some Amazing Before and After Treatment Results
Love the skin you're in and the hair not on it!
