No Razors or Waxing Are Needed to Get Smooth, Bare Skin in the Little Rock Area
Anyone who deals with unwanted hair knows the cycle: Shave or wax, briefly enjoy the results, and repeat after new hairs quickly grow again. Laser hair removal at the Little Rock area’s Dermatology Group of Arkansas is ideal for anyone who wants to break that cycle. By using light energy to inhibit hair growth in the follicle itself, our team can provide long-term results all over the body, from large areas to focused spots.
In order to make each patient’s experience and results as ideal as possible, we work with advanced technology proven to be safe and yield consistent results. Each member of our team performing laser hair removal is experienced in the treatment itself and in working with a diverse array of patients with unique skin types, cosmetic goals, and more.
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Schedule your consultation for laser hair removal for Little Rock, all of Central Arkansas, and beyond today. Call us at the Dermatology Group of Arkansas at 501-227-8422.
Where Can Laser Hair Removal Be Applied?
Just about anywhere unwanted hair grows can be treated with laser hair removal. Popular areas include the bikini line, arms and shoulders, the underarms, the back, the chest, and the legs. Laser hair removal can also be applied to the chin, upper lip, and other parts of the face.
How Does Laser Hair Removal Work?
If you want to understand what makes laser hair removal possible, you have to first understand how hairs grow on the body, face, and head.
Your skin is covered with pores, each of which is an opening to a follicle where a hair root develops. Each hair has a natural life cycle, which includes an active growth phase, a resting phase, and a phase that involves an old hair falling out and a new one starting to grow.
Follicles also have specialized cells responsible for giving hairs their color. These pigmented cells are darker than surrounding cells, which is important to laser hair removal.
A session involves moving the laser hair removal device over the treatment area and activating it to send focused light energy into the skin. Darker-pigmented cells in the follicles absorb the light, which causes them to rapidly heat up. This heat builds and damages the entire follicle, rendering it unable to properly grow a new hair after the existing hair falls out.
Due to the way the laser light interacts with pigmented cells, laser hair removal works on a percentage of the follicles in a given treatment area each session. In order to get the clearest skin possible, patients will need to have multiple treatment sessions spaced out over time so they can catch actively growing hairs that were resting during previous sessions.
What Can You Expect From a Laser Hair Removal Treatment?
First, we will meet with you to have a thorough consultation and discuss your options. Once deciding on laser hair removal as the best course of action for achieving your cosmetic goals, we will prepare you by telling you how to get ready for your appointment. It is important to refrain from plucking or waxing prior to your session, since mechanically pulling out hairs can impact the follicle and cause the laser hair removal treatment to not be as effective.
The session itself does not take long. Each “zap” of light may feel like something solid snapping against the surface of the skin, but patients tend to tolerate the sensation well—and we have numbing options for those who want to make their experience as comfortable as possible. The laser hair removal device itself is also designed to cool the surface of the skin as it sends light into deeper layers.
Soon after a treatment session, existing hairs will fall out of the damaged follicles, which shut down for a considerable period of time.
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How Long Do Laser Hair Removal Results Last?
Hairs will eventually grow back after a laser hair removal treatment, but patients can expect a lengthy window between their sessions and when they see new growth. The duration of any results is variable from person to person, but it will be longer than the time it takes new hairs to grow after shaving, waxing, or plucking. Our laser hair removal patients enjoy long stretches of smooth and bare skin—and even when hairs do eventually grow back, they tend to be thinner and lighter in color than the hairs that grew before. These new hairs tend to be less noticeable and more manageable than the previous hairs.
Patients who want to enjoy the benefits of a smooth belly, back, or chin while ditching the razor and the constant following stubble can talk to us about what the treatment accomplishes.
What Else Can Lasers Do?
The Dermatology Group of Arkansas team uses light-based cosmetic treatments for a wide range of applications, including laser skin rejuvenation, laser skin resurfacing, laser acne treatments, and other laser procedures.
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Contact the Dermatology Group of Arkansas today for laser hair removal in the Little Rock area. Call 501-227-8422.