What to Expect
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First, a quick education in hair growth. This is very important in understanding your results.
Hair grows in three stages. Anagen, Catagen and Telogen. Simply put, Active, Less Active and Dormant. There is no way to determine, of the millions of follicles on your body, which are in the Active Stage. Your feedback and compliance helps us to provide the best results possible.
Active (Anagen)
When a follicle is Active (Anagen), it is connected to the blood supply and contains a strong amount of pigment. This is the pigment needed to attract the laser. The laser will kill the follicle and blood supply, ensuring a new hair never grows again. You will experience hairs pushing through and then falling out about 3-21 days after your treatment. This should not be confused with new growth.
Less Active (Catagen)
This follicle is on its way to becoming dormant. The hair is detaching itself from the blood supply and has less pigment for the laser to detect, thus making it less of a target. When the laser hits a Catagen follicle, it can damage the follicle, producing a fine, thinner hair in it’s next growth cycle. The laser can damage, not kill, follicles in this stage. This hair will be targeted by the laser in its next Active stage.
Dormant (Telegen)
Telegen follicles are dormant. There are dormant follicles all over your body! These will not die when the laser reaches them because there is either no hair in the follicle or the pigment is not strong enough to “attract” the laser, as the hair has moved so far up the shaft, the blood supply is no longer attached. Dormant follicles will be targeted in its next Active Stage.
Please note, many factors contribute to activating dormant follicles. The most common is the normal and natural hair growth cycle. Others include: hormonal changes, weight, stress, metabolism and Ethnic background.
Hormones can stimulate growth in women’s hair. Mostly in male patterns. Chin, sideburns, chest and abs. The laser will target these follicles when in an Active state. However, your body may activate dormant follicles for many different reasons. Every person is different and will receive a treatment plan best suited for their needs.
First treatment
After your first treatment, treated hairs from below the skin’s surface, will “fall out”. This Fall Out Stage can occur from 3 to 21 days after your treatment. This should not be confused with New Growth. Your body must expel the hair singed by the laser. This hair will be brittle, easily wiped away with a cloth or loofah. To test these hairs, simply take a tweezer to the hair, if it breaks off or slides out, it is Fall Out. If you meet resistance, that is a dormant hair which entered the Active stage and will be a target on another visit. This is why multiple treatments are necessary and performed at estimated intervals. Your treated area will then be smooth and hair free for a noticeable period of time. Closer to your next appointment, fine hairs will appear, as will new growth.
Second Treatment
The laser will target the New Growth. Your hair growth will be considerably less and may even go longer than the first treatment. It largely depends on you adhering to a consistent schedule of treatments. If you go too long in between treatments and miss a growth cycle, we will not kill the follicle until it awakens again. At this time we will see how quickly you grow hair. We will customize your appointments around your growth.
Additional Treatments
At this time we will see how quickly your hair grows. We will customize your appointments around your growth. You will be happy so far with the reduced hair you’re experiencing. Now we continue to treat you until the area is as free from hair as desired. After 6 treatments most clients go on Maintenance (half price), coming in when bothersome re-growth appears.
You must take into consideration that no one can predict when new hair growth is activated. Example: If a female has a chin treated, after 5 treatments you may still have new growth because this is a hormonal area. The growth will be significantly less, thinner and easy to groom. If your body balances out again, you will see slower re-growth. If the hormones get “tweaked” again, new growth can occur.
Hair grows in three stages. Anagen, Catagen and Telogen. Simply put, Active, Less Active and Dormant. There is no way to determine, of the millions of follicles on your body, which are in the Active Stage. Your feedback and compliance helps us to provide the best results possible.
Active (Anagen)
When a follicle is Active (Anagen), it is connected to the blood supply and contains a strong amount of pigment. This is the pigment needed to attract the laser. The laser will kill the follicle and blood supply, ensuring a new hair never grows again. You will experience hairs pushing through and then falling out about 3-21 days after your treatment. This should not be confused with new growth.
Less Active (Catagen)
This follicle is on its way to becoming dormant. The hair is detaching itself from the blood supply and has less pigment for the laser to detect, thus making it less of a target. When the laser hits a Catagen follicle, it can damage the follicle, producing a fine, thinner hair in it’s next growth cycle. The laser can damage, not kill, follicles in this stage. This hair will be targeted by the laser in its next Active stage.
Dormant (Telegen)
Telegen follicles are dormant. There are dormant follicles all over your body! These will not die when the laser reaches them because there is either no hair in the follicle or the pigment is not strong enough to “attract” the laser, as the hair has moved so far up the shaft, the blood supply is no longer attached. Dormant follicles will be targeted in its next Active Stage.
Please note, many factors contribute to activating dormant follicles. The most common is the normal and natural hair growth cycle. Others include: hormonal changes, weight, stress, metabolism and Ethnic background.
Hormones can stimulate growth in women’s hair. Mostly in male patterns. Chin, sideburns, chest and abs. The laser will target these follicles when in an Active state. However, your body may activate dormant follicles for many different reasons. Every person is different and will receive a treatment plan best suited for their needs.
First treatment
After your first treatment, treated hairs from below the skin’s surface, will “fall out”. This Fall Out Stage can occur from 3 to 21 days after your treatment. This should not be confused with New Growth. Your body must expel the hair singed by the laser. This hair will be brittle, easily wiped away with a cloth or loofah. To test these hairs, simply take a tweezer to the hair, if it breaks off or slides out, it is Fall Out. If you meet resistance, that is a dormant hair which entered the Active stage and will be a target on another visit. This is why multiple treatments are necessary and performed at estimated intervals. Your treated area will then be smooth and hair free for a noticeable period of time. Closer to your next appointment, fine hairs will appear, as will new growth.
Second Treatment
The laser will target the New Growth. Your hair growth will be considerably less and may even go longer than the first treatment. It largely depends on you adhering to a consistent schedule of treatments. If you go too long in between treatments and miss a growth cycle, we will not kill the follicle until it awakens again. At this time we will see how quickly you grow hair. We will customize your appointments around your growth.
Additional Treatments
At this time we will see how quickly your hair grows. We will customize your appointments around your growth. You will be happy so far with the reduced hair you’re experiencing. Now we continue to treat you until the area is as free from hair as desired. After 6 treatments most clients go on Maintenance (half price), coming in when bothersome re-growth appears.
You must take into consideration that no one can predict when new hair growth is activated. Example: If a female has a chin treated, after 5 treatments you may still have new growth because this is a hormonal area. The growth will be significantly less, thinner and easy to groom. If your body balances out again, you will see slower re-growth. If the hormones get “tweaked” again, new growth can occur.
