For face and body, a course of laser sessions is matched to your skin and hair to reduce the amount growing back.
40–120 min · € 20,00 – € 1.650,00
Targeting unwanted hairs at their roots offers an alternative to repeatedly shaving, waxing or plucking, only to begin again a few days later. At Nour Skin Center on the Amerikaweg in Haarlem, laser or IPL can treat your legs, arms, underarms, face, bikini line, back and chest, among other areas.
Hair pigment takes in laser or IPL light and converts it to warmth. That heat weakens the root, with as little effect as possible on neighbouring skin.
The most favourable contrast is darker hair against lighter skin: pigment within the hair is needed to absorb the light. White, grey, red and blonde hairs have little of it, so their response is often minimal.
We delay treatment or recommend leaving it aside in these circumstances: being pregnant or nursing a baby; having a tan, a recent sunbed visit or self-tanning product on the area; taking isotretinoin, medicines that increase sensitivity to light or other skin medication; a wound, infection, eczema or cold sore where treatment is planned; epilepsy which light can trigger; a tendency towards keloid scarring or difficulty healing wounds
A usual course involves six to eight treatments, though sometimes more are needed. Facial areas and hormone-sensitive hair may require a higher number. The location also guides the break between visits, typically four to eight weeks: regrowth on legs is often slower than on the face. Requirements are individual.
Treated hairs generally shed within one to three weeks of each visit. Apparent continued growth is usually the hairs being pushed out through the skin instead. Most people find that each treatment leaves a little less regrowth.
Shave the preceding day if possible, leaving no hair projecting beyond the skin surface. Leave off waxing, plucking and depilatory cream for the weeks beforehand and throughout the course. Stay out of sunshine and sunbeds in the preceding weeks; leave off self-tanning products too. Keep the treatment area free from cream, deodorant and make-up when you arrive. Before every subsequent visit, always tell us about new medicines, pregnancy or any change in your skin.
Red skin with a sun-exposed feeling can appear immediately afterwards. Little bumps at the follicles are possible too. They generally settle over several hours to a day, although recovery varies individually.
Working with light and heat means laser hair removal always carries some risk. Redness and mild swelling are normal responses which pass. Less often, blisters, crusting, irritated follicles or temporary darkening or lightening of the skin occur. A tan or darker complexion makes these more likely. Rarely, fine hairs surrounding the treatment zone grow more rather than less.
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