
Removing Facial
Hair
Depilatories should never be used for eyebrows or
around the eyes. I do not
recommend it for any kind of facial hair
because most depilatories are very caustic and
can burn sensitive
facial skin..
Vaniqa is a prescription-only
topical cream for reducing and inhibiting the growth of
unwanted facial
hair. It takes at least 4 weeks to see any results. The most frequent side
effects are adverse skin reactions.
Electrolysis
will permanently remove hair, but it
takes repeated treatments and can be
expensive. The hair is removed by
sending an electrical current to the hair follicle to
destroy the root,
ensuring that the hair will not grow back. Most electrolysis machines
use a needle to introduce a fine wire under your skin as the electricity
conductor. Each
hair is treated separately, which makes it very
time-consuming. If the technician fails to
accurately target the root,
the hair can grow back, which is why you may need repeated
treatments.
The best way to find a trusty professional is to use the list of licensed and
certified electrologists from the International Guild of Hair Removal
Specialists at www.
ighrs.org.
Kalo, is an herbal treatment
that is combined with your usual hair removal method. Kalo
comes in a
spray or lotion, which you apply to your skin after you’ve shaved, waxed,
tweezed, or had an electrolysis treatment, or whatever method you use. You
apply it
three times the day of the hair removal and three times the
next day. Your hair will come
back more fine and will re-grow more
slowly until the hair is completely gone.
A laser
is a concentrated pulse of light that
is focused on a small area of your skin and it
will remove all the hair
in that area. The laser pulse is absorbed by the hair and travels
to
the root. At the root, the energy becomes hot heat and will destroy the follicle
so hair
cannot grow back. The laser can only eliminate hair that's
currently in a growth cycle. In
any given area, the hairs will be in
different stages of their growth cycle, so three
treatments are
recommended over a few months to ensure you’ve removed all the hair
from any one area. Laser is fast and long lasting, especially when treating
large areas.
You can use laser on your face but do not use it anywhere
near your eyes.
Threading is a form of hair
removal long practiced in India, Pakistan and the Middle
East. In the
hands of a skilled technician, threading results in clean lines to the
eyebrows, and can be used to remove hair from the upper lip and the face.
The
technician uses a piece of 100% cotton thread which is twisted and
pulled along the
area of unwanted hair, lifting hair directly from the
follicle. The pain experienced during
threading is no worse than that
experienced during tweezing or waxing.
Tweezing
is done with a metal forceps to
manually pull our hair by the root, one hair at a
time. It is best used
on small areas, like your eyebrows, to remove stray hairs. NEVER
tweeze
nose hair – you risk infection because your nose is a warm, moist incubator for
molds. In rare instances, you may get a pitted scar from tweezing
facial hair..

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