Why
many therapists would under treat & avoid using high energy settings?
-- Their clients would have to spend for more treatment sessions, thus more revenue for them.
-- It's
more comfortable for clients when applying lower energy settings. But this will ruin clients' ultimate results to have the uttermost/greater hair reduction in the long run. No pains no gain; less pain less gain.
-- Lower risks of over treatments such as blisters or burn when using lower energy
-- Some clients can be very upset over follicular inflammation despite the fact that they have received effective treatment. How can hair follicles get killed if there is no follicle inflammation?
-- It takes time and series of under-treatments for paradoxical hypertrichosis to become noticed, so the therapists can get away with it. Examples of reported cases: Case A, Case B, Case C
https://www.lasercollege.org/diode-laser-hair-removal-or-hair-growth-stimulation/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20100274/
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Fortunately, in many cases, laser can provide significant hair reduction if done properly without clients ended up with more hair (due to being stimulated by light therapy). Proper laser treatments should not be painless. Your Hair FOLLICLES need to become inflamed 5-10 minutes after being hit by laser, diode, IPL light. The more pronounced follicle inflammation the better sign to indicate some damages to your hair follicles. But the settings shouldn't be too high that can blister or burn you, therefore patch tests to find different settings that are efficacious for different parts of the body are very important. Some hairs purge out from follicles as soon as they get hit by laser, while other hairs should fall out within a week or two after the treatment. If this isn't the case, it's not working.
Additionally, you should avoid having any light treatments (LHR) over the area where there is no hair or where there is vellus or fine hair in order to minimise potential risk of hypertrichosis.
LHR is most effective while your hair is still the most dense, thick, coarse & dark during your very first few sessions. Every time you received treatment, dark pigments (AKA melanins) within your hairs are destroyed & weaken. Less reduction results in subsequent sessions because
as clients progress with subsequent LHR treatment sessions, their hair becomes finer and lighter, meaning that
their hair contains less dark melanins, thus absorb less light. Therefore laser become less effective. Clients receive greater ultimate reduction results when they are properly treated from the start.
Clients achieve greater amount of hair reduction when:
No follicle inflammation = No results
Less follicular inflammation = Less results
More pronounced follicular inflammation (without any lingering pain &/or heat!)= Greater reduction results to achieve long-term/permanent hair reduction/removal and lesser risks of hypertrichosis
Our clients see significant change since their first session even if more sessions are required to meet satisfaction, providing that hair is dark, dense, coarse & thick with light skin colours. Even if laser (diode & IPL) tends to have unpredictable results among different individuals, up to around 6-8 treatments within 1 ½ – 2 yrs are typically required to achieve maximum hair reduction, and I believe that further treatments can induce hair growth. I highly recommend that your initial two Laser Hair Removal sessions are between 6 to 8 weeks apart, then your subsequent 3rd and 6th sessions are between 6 weeks to 6 months apart. You should receive around 80% or more hair reduction.
(Based on our records, our clients require only 4 - 6 sessions.)
When to come for your next LHR? Timing between each treatment is very crucial for ultimate results from LHR. LHR is effective for only hair in anagen phase.
Different body areas have different hair growth cycles. In order to catch the most hair in the anagen phase during your LHR sessions, as soon as a significant percentage of the hair starts emerging from your skin, resume for the next session.
Please note that if you want every single unwanted hair permanently removed, Electrolysis is the only available solution.
Signs
indicating effective laser hair removal treatments:
Signs of over- and under- treatments
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No follicle inflammation = No results
Less follicular inflammation = Less results
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