ADOLESCENCE is an awkward time to grow a mustache. Especially if you’re a girl. When Vidya Srinivasan was 7, girls would make her play a man in games of make-believe because of the downy hairs on her upper lip. “It really started messing up my self-esteem,” said Vidya, now 13. “I got to thinking that maybe there’d been a mistake and I was really born a boy.”
Her mother, Dr. Hema Sundaram, a dermatologist in suburban Washington, tried to reassure her. The amount of hair a girl sprouts (and where) varies widely based on genetics, hormones and ethnicity, Dr. Sundaram said, and a bit of facial hair is not uncommon among women who, like the doctor and her daughter, are of Indian descent.
“But she started crying, and I felt like crying with her,” Dr. Sundaram said. “I tried to impart that if someone is saying something bad about you, it’s usually because they feel bad about themselves. But it’s very tough to deal with that when you’re 7.”
Together they decided to get rid of the unwanted lip hair. Bleach proved ineffective, depilatory creams irritated Vidya’s skin, and Dr. Sundaram ruled out waxing because of the inflamed follicles she had seen in her practice. Since last year, Dr. Sundaram has brought her daughter into her office several times to use a laser to put the hairs — and Heathers — at bay.
Her tormentors were silenced and, Vidya said, “I felt like I’d won.”
Parents of teenagers have long walked a fine line between helping a child grease the wheels of social acceptance, and stressing physical appearance too much. Do you let a tween shave her legs or armpits because other fifth graders do? Will a nose job be a lifesaver or a mistake to later regret?
In the realm of cosmetic decisions, there are few clear-cut answers regarding what is good and bad, comely or ugly.
Some cultural absolutes do exist. In the 20th century, for instance, Americans seemed to decide that crooked, imperfect teeth should be fixed as early as possible, even though most of us chew fine with imperfect choppers.
And now removing hair, like getting braces, is making the transition from vanity to necessity for increasingly more parents and their girls and boys. “I have a teenage client who is on the swim team and is getting hair removed from his back,” said Rena Abdinova, a registered nurse and an owner of the City Skin and Laser Clinic in San Francisco. “He has a 24-year-old brother who was also on the swim team in high school and had hair on his back, but then it wasn’t an issue. People are becoming much more self-conscious about hair.”
Teenagers often require more laser treatments than adults because their hormonal fluctuations can change the rate and pattern of hair growth. Still, hair removal by laser is the most popular nonsurgical cosmetic procedure among minors, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, an organization of board-certified plastic surgeons.
In 2007, teenagers got 67,523 procedures — more than double the number that age group had in 2000, according to the society, which surveyed its members and board-certified dermatologists but not aestheticians or other doctors.
Many children seek to be denuded because excess fuzz embarrasses them. Others want to avoid a lifetime of battling hair. For Christine Furman, of Greenwich, Conn., getting laser treatment for the unibrow of her 16-year-old daughter Teresa was a celebratory event, not unlike ear piercing. Classmates had also nicknamed Teresa “Uno Brow.”
Laser hair removal devices, which were first cleared by the Food and Drug Administration in 1995, work by beaming light at various frequencies through the skin in order to heat up and damage the hair follicle. It can take minutes or hours, depending on the size of the area, and usually requires several sessions.
Until the advent of laser hair reduction, the only long-term hair removal option was electrolysis, which can be pricey, time-consuming and painful. The average upper lip needs 6 treatments (5 minutes each) to be lasered compared with roughly 20 sessions of electrolysis (15 minutes each).
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There’s several ways to get
laser hair treatment to remove hair permanently but long term results will vary by person. The steps are;-
1. You have to know that laser hair treatment works best on dark hair and light skin. Light hairs may need to be artificially darkened in order for the laser to target them. Laser hair removal does not work for white, blonde, light brown or light red hair.
2. Please avoid removing hair by the roots such as tweezing, waxing, etc for at least 6 weeks before your treatment. You can only shave or use a depilatory like Nair on your hair to manage growth. This is because these products only remove hair above the skin.
3. Select a treatment facility that uses newer technology to minimize pain, such as the Candela GentleLASE which prepares your skin for the laser an instant before the pulse with a coolant spray. This particular laser also uses an Alexandrite laser which has a very long wavelength to penetrate deeper roots than many other lasers.
4. Get a consultation! Meet the technician and have him/her perform a test pulse before you commit to anything.
5. Shave closely right before your treatment. This will minimize the pain.
6. Avoid caffeine for 24 hours before your treatment. This will help with pain as well, and you'll be more relaxed.
7. During the treatment, expect pain. It can be described as a rubber band slapping your skin or like tweezing multiple hairs at once.
8. Provide the technician with feedback regarding your pain. They may need to adjust the intensity of the laser, the coolant, or, in some cases, use a numbing cream on your skin.
9. Communicate with your technician after the procedure. When you leave the office, you should be slightly red and you may see red circles in more sensitive areas of your skin. Old technology lasers left you burned for a few days, but newer technology should leave you recovered within an hour.
10. Be aware of how laser hair treatment works. In the next 24 hours, you should notice the treated hairs will not grow. After that time, they will start to "grow" at about half the former rate until they have been expelled enough to be removed. You can help the "shedding" process with a washcloth in the shower. Some hairs may be loose enough to be grabbed with your fingers, but you can also use tweezers to pull them out. Do not remove hairs that give resistance -- the hairs that are ready to come out will be removed without even feeling it. Resistance means the root still lives, and you'll have to wait for that hair to die in your next treatment. Tweezing it will only slow your overall process.
Laser Hair Treatment
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Are you also self conscious about unwanted hair growth? Don’t worry because you also share your problem with nearly one million people, only in US.
Laser hair treatment is widely practiced and now generally accepted by the dermatology community.
Nowadays, both men and women seek laser hair treatment services to remove unwanted hair. Hair removal is commonly done on lip, chin, ear lobe, shoulders, back, underarm, abdomen, buttocks, pubic area, bikini lines, thighs, face, neck, chest, arms, legs, hands, and toes. By following laser hair treatment, the lasered area may stay hair-free for several months to several years. After several treatments, the hair may never come back.
You can visit HairMax LaserComb for seek an expertise in laser hair treatment. It has been proven effective in over 90% of users. It is also safe, having been shown to cause no unwanted side effects and is free from on-going costs.
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After you done on
laser hair treatment, irritations can occur and it also depends on your skin type. During your laser hair removal consultation, consult on possible solutions this potential side effect can be treated with. In rare circumstances, you skin may be rash or redness, or even worst, it burns and change in skin color. However, blistering may be more of a problem if you have treated a well seen or noticeable area, such as directly above your lip.
Next, may be the worst, most painful, noticeable, and embarrassing temporary side effect that comes with having laser hair removal performed. The side effect also involves temporary darkening of the skin on the treated area. Therefore, you can minimize the side effect if the laser hair treatment is not in your face, it will not so noticeable by others. How much you can rate it painful? Refer from Rennaissance Laser Hair Removal, on a scale of one to ten; most of them rate 3 or a 4.
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This is additional for the
previous post, to get a rid hairy body without
laser hair treatment. Check if it is heredity. If it is due to heredity results may be delayed. Bleach it and apply multani mitti, besan flour, honey, and neem powder and mix together. Leave it to dry and sprinkle water and massage it for 10mts and wash with water.Do this every week, this make your hair thin and it camouflaged with your skin color.
For some people it take 6 months, so please have patience. This is very good natural way of hair removal but slow process.
You can also take some quantity of mustred oil and salt 1/4 of spoon mix it and apply on your back like massage. Use it regularly its reallly effective without any side effect.
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Some of you will face small pimples after doing a
laser hair treatment. It takes two to three days and much of it will go away. It takes two weeks or better for a complete recovery. Treat the breakout as you normally would.
Use baby powder to dry up the pimples and next time don’t go to laser sessions in beauty centers. Search for http://epila.tripod.com. It came with a 1 year guarantee and I am satisfied with how it works. It works on the root of the hair, so it has no effect on the skin. Harvard University and many scientists agreed that this product works. You can use it at home without giving your skin any harm.
You also can use saliva after you get up early in the morning before brushing or goggling your mouth take saliva and apply it on the pimples and see the difference for yourself. Or else you should check with electrologist. If she isn't able to help, I'd say go to a derm. Meanwhile, get some calamine lotion and apply a bit of it and it'll sooth the skin.
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The cost of
laser hair treatment depends on several factors including the area to be treated, the amount of hair growth on the area, the number of treatments needed, the type of laser used, the individual physician or practitioner, and your geographic location. Prices vary widely from clinic to clinic. Some also offer discounts for paying up front for multiple treatments.
Typical laser hair removal costs based on consumers reporting in UK 2008 :
Prices per 1 treatment
Upper Lip Prices : £43.00 - £50.00
Chin Prices : £43.00 - £50.00
Sideburns Prices : £43.00 - £50.00
Cheeks Prices : £43.00 - £50.00
Full Beard Prices : £86.00 - £100.00
Full Face Prices : £103.00 - £120.00
Upper Eyebrows Prices : £43.00 - £50.00
Chest Prices : £86.00 - £100.00
Abdomen Prices : £86.00 - £100.00
Full Back Prices : £171.50 - £200.00
Shoulders Prices : £86.00 - £100.00
Hands or Feets Prices : £43.00 - £50.00
Under Arms Prices : £43.00 - £50.00
Bikini Line Prices : £60.00 - £70.00
Full Public Prices : £103.00 - £120.00
Buttocks Prices : £86.00 - £100.00
3/4 Arms Prices : £129.00 - £150.00
Full Arms Prices : £171.50 - £200.00
Full Legs Prices : £257.50 - £300.00
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Laser hair treatment is the last choice for those who want to get rid of the hairy body. Therefore if you don’t want to use Laser hair treatment, plucking (tweezing), shaving, depilatory creams and waxing are temporary hair removal methods.
Waxing usually lasts for 3 weeks, but it is painful. Electrolysis and laser hair removal are "permanent" hair removal methods but are expensive and you have to find a trained professional, otherwise your skin could be damaged. Shaving is the one sure method that causes no damage, scarring, burning or discoloration to skin. The best way to shave is using a men's type electric razor, after first trimming the hair down as close to skin level as possible by other means. The negative side is shaving your hair will make it just grow faster and longer and harder. But please be careful when you wax as some parts of your body that are sensitive. It will hurt you so much but it makes the hairs grow smaller and softer next time.
Hair is a funny thing on our body. All hair isn't the same, as hair on our head is coarse to fine, where as the rest is the same as our pubis(pubic), under arm on our lips ,the legs all same. Now we remove that hair and it grows back stronger every time, but over time it also loses its strength. What service does it provide, it helps remove sweet droplets and helps keep dirt from the skin, still need to wash.
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Testimonial Institute of Laser Medicine's patients, in Los Angeles
Lynne, age 43, Registered Nurse/ Nurse Educator:
"This treatment has been life changing for me. After three treatments and one follow-up after one year, my life-long facial hair problem is GONE! The virtually painless treatment and excellent staff have truly changed my life. Thank you!"
Silvia, age 43, General Manager
"The laser treatments have given me the freedom to not have to worry about constantly having to shave my legs. The best part is not dealing with rashes and irritations and ingrown hairs., My skin feels smooth and clean. The bikini line is also much improved since there is no irritation from shaving."
