Manscaping has toned down a bit in recent years. It’s all about maintaining a neat appearance through proper grooming practises including shaving or waxing facial and body hair. Indeed, you’ve improved in appearance. You’re better now. Thankfully, hair removal has advanced significantly from the painful, ancient methods of yesteryear. Laser hair removal is a quick, easy, and painless option.

Laser For Hair Removal On Beard

Laser hair removal for men has become increasingly popular over the past decade. “Manscaping” is a modern term that describes when men remove or groom unwanted hair. Manscaping has been around forever. In Ancient Egypt, men removed every strand of hair from their bodies, including eyelashes and eyebrows. It was a sign of nobility and civility. And it was laborious and painful.

What is laser hair removal?

According to WebMD, laser hair removal uses beams of highly concentrated light to target hair follicles. “Pigment in the follicles absorbs the light that destroys the hair.” One treatment, however, does not kill the follicle, but weakens it so that the hairs grow back thinner and more slowly.

Men would usually opt for laser hair removal treatment on the back, chest, stomach, shoulders, and even the genital area. It also works best when treating dark hair on light skin. It may not be suitable for blond or white hair. For those with darker skin tones, the Nd: YAG type of laser may be used (more about this later).

Is it painful?

Like many other technologies, huge advances have taken place in laser technology. Today, state-of-the-art equipment provides a quick, comfortable experience. Furthermore, an extra benefit of the laser over other hair-removal methods is that the strength of the laser can be adjusted to ensure your comfort.

How long does it take?

As for time, you usually can be in and out in less than an hour. You can have it done on your lunch hour if you’d like. Naturally, the larger the area, the longer the treatment. For example, you can rid yourself of a woolly back in about 30 minutes. The chest takes about 20 minutes. A male “Brazilian,” 10 to 15 minutes. Just think—so little time for a procedure that could be life-changing.

What areas of the body can be lasered successfully?

Nearly everywhere, except for the eyelids can be done. Men often choose laser hair removal for their beard area/ neck, chest, shoulders, armpits, stomach, and back.

Permanent Beard Removal

For men, facial hair can often lead to the development of folliculitis, ingrown hair or cysts among the hair on the face, neck and shirt collar. These skin conditions are caused by regular shaving or trimming and bacterial overgrowth in beard hair. If these skin problems are present for fair skin, they are even more often found in patients with olive or dark skin.

Laser hair removal for the beard is a very effective solution to effectively treat folliculitis. But hair removal for this area is a particular treatment. It is to be considered very carefully because of its permanence.

We indeed most often recommend for men to not completely remove all of the facial hair at the risk of making a too feminine face. It is possible to treat the contours of the beard to have an always-impeccable beard (shaved or trimmed). Like this, the treated skin is still smooth but without bumps or redness. This can also be used on the area between your brows. For more information, you can talk to your doctor during your consultation.

Electrolysis Beard Removal Cost

Two lasers may be required depending on the color of your skin and the density of your beard: either the Alexandrite laser or the Nd YAG from the brand Cynosure ©. The morning of your appointment, you will manually shave the areas to be treated using a razor. During the first sessions, your doctor will prescribe an anesthetic cream applied one hour prior to the treatment so that it is completely painless.

Discover in pictures what happens during a laser hair removal session for men.

Even if you consider yourself as an ordinary or average guy (not an athlete of some sort), laser hair removal can still be beneficial for you. Here are a few reasons why you may want to get your body hair treated:

Lessen excessive body hair

If you are already uncomfortable with your excess hair, probably on your back, chest, stomach, or all over your body, laser hair removal is a great solution.

Don’t worry, it does not necessarily mean that you will be completely hairless on the area that will be treated (although that is also possible if you want to). Rather, the treated area will just have thinner and finer hair.

Relieve irritation and itchiness

Although body hair is common among men, some still find them irritable and itchy, especially during summer. Men who have tried laser hair removal found relief from bushiness, irritation, and itchiness after the treatment.

Remove ingrown hairs

Some men also had laser hair removal treatment on their facial hairs since less hair make shaving a lot easier. In addition, the treatment can remove ingrown hairs that can cause pseudofolliculitis barbae (aka razor bumps) – those clusters of inflamed, red bumps that tend to appear around the hair follicles after shaving.

Avoid sporadic balding and remove bad hair plugs

Some men who’ve had laser hair removal on their head prefer a bald head to patchy uneven hair loss. Others, however, just want to get rid of their bad hair plugs that cause irritation or just don’t look right.

Type of laser Hair Removal Treatment?

Once you decide on having laser hair removal treatment, next is to determine what type of laser would work best on your skin and hair. The laser light from various machines differs in wavelength (measured in nanometers -nm) and actual energy output. In turn, this determines the depth and overall effectiveness of the laser device in different skin types, color and hair thickness.

Here are the three types of laser for hair removal treatments that are available nowadays:

• Alexandrite: 755nm; most effective for those with light skin and thin hair; not recommended for those with darker skin color.
• Diode: 810nm; suitable for those with pale to medium-type skin.
• Nd: Yag: 1064 nm; most recommended and effective for people with darker skin color and thicker hair.

To obtain the best results, we recommend that you consult with your dermatologist to know which one is most appropriate for you.

What are the side effects?

Most laser hair removal clients deny any side effects. However, it does not mean that it’s totally zero-risk.

Should you decide to get laser hair removal treatment, it is normal to see some redness, and experience sensitivity or itching within 24 hours after the procedure. However, if your irritation lasts longer than that, contact your provider immediately.

It is also possible to experience severe reactions such as burns or blistering, (temporary or permanent) changes in skin color at treated sites, swelling, rashes or bruising. Permanent scarring may also occur but that is very rare.

As a man, you should not be ashamed if you wish to have your body hair removed or groomed. The culture has changed and this is now widely accepted. More so, hair removal treatments have developed over time. There are now various types of machines that may be used to perform safe and effective laser hair removal treatments. Now it’s even easier to get man-scaped.