White hairs after laser

sid104 · October 21, 2017, 10:07:03 AM

So after my first laser session on face hairs are started to shed but i noticed small white hairs which i never seen before on my face.could it be result of laser because the women which did laser did not have much experience or i should change my laser place thought it is the cheap place for laser

Lady Lisandra · October 21, 2017, 10:53:19 AM

Laser hair removal is a semi permament method. Unless electrolysis, it weakens hair follicles. This means that after all you sessions you may still have a few, light, unnoticeable hairs. Don't worry about that, remember that cis women also hair hair EVERYWHERE, it's just very light and we don't notice it.

sid104 · October 21, 2017, 11:07:37 AM

I dont think so that i had white hairs.I guess its because laser.may be laser changed them to white

jill610 · October 21, 2017, 12:20:41 PM

I have also noticed after laser that I have a lot of white hairs, but I am thinking more along the lines of I just didn't notice them before because they got lost in the sea of dark hair before. I'm 39 and do not have many white hairs on my head but am noticing this in my face and chest, both of which have had laser treatments.

Dena · October 21, 2017, 05:05:06 PM

All of my hair removal was done by electrolysis so no chance of it being bleached by the laser. Once I reached the point where I could stop shaving I had a bunch of very fine hair on my face. It was denser in the area where my beard was sparser but there is some even where my beard was dense. It's way to fine for removal by electrolysis and as it's white, laser wouldn't touch it. My face was last shaved before my avatar picture was taken and nobody has ever commented about it. It's normal for a woman to have some facial hair but you have to look very close to see it.

Denise · October 23, 2017, 03:16:48 PM

I asked the technician (actually she is an MD) told me that the laser treatments I was receiving were a permanent solution to hair removal.

Being 55 I have quite a bit of Gray which didn't get touched. But all the dark is gone

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JoanneW · October 25, 2017, 03:35:35 AM

I'm about 50/50 white hair / colored (all sorts of colors too) on my face. Hard to tell if there are now more white, but as the darker ones subside I suspect the white / grey are becoming more prominent.

LizK · October 25, 2017, 05:13:15 AM

I had numerous laser sessions and a heap more electrolysis and we have just reached the point where its only "fluff" remaining, some definitely longer than others but unless I have the magnifying mirror up close I just won't see them. We are now clearing up the last of these longer ones and a few darker ones on my top lip, so not much to go.

About my third or 4th laser session I thought I had heaps of new hair but after a bit of carful looking what I did have was a lack of dark hairs making the white more visible to me...sounds like your laser is working.

amydane · October 27, 2017, 05:48:00 AM

I had this done about 7 years ago, and had some white hairs uncovered. My beard hair was multiple colors, mostly dark brown with very few red, and very very few white. The white ones were more around my neck. I only have a handful now. I think the hormones mixed with consistent plucking stopped or reduced the growth. I also had very few gray hairs on my head at the time. I don't think that lazer really messes with the pigment, but I haven't done any research either, just from my lone experience...

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JoanneW · October 27, 2017, 06:11:15 AM

Quote from: Lady Lisandra on October 21, 2017, 10:53:19 AM
Laser hair removal is a semi permament method.

I do love that marketers term "semi permanent". It's about as accurate as "almost unique" in that both "permanent" and "unique" are absolutes. Something is either unique or it is not, in the same way that something is either permanent or it is not.

In other words, if laser hair removal cannot be termed permanent, it must be temporary: just less temporary than shaving, plucking or waxing.

Jailyn · October 27, 2017, 08:26:31 AM

No you don't need to change the first warning they gave was that the laser will not eliminate any white or blonde hairs that you may have. The laser does not make them white. So you probably had them there all along but, did not notice them. I was told by my laser tech that you will have to go for electrolysis for the ones you don't get control on. So hair removal is not easy.

HappyMoni · October 27, 2017, 05:13:49 PM

I did laser on my chest pre-coming out. I started getting blond hairs sprouting out. I never had that before laser. This led me to get electrolysis to get rid of them. I ended up not going back for laser as electrolysis worked better on all colors. My theory is that the laser stimulated the growth of these blond hairs. They were not grey by the way, and they were healthy thick hairs.
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Roll · October 27, 2017, 11:54:22 PM

Quote from: JoanneW on October 27, 2017, 06:11:15 AM
I do love that marketers term "semi permanent". It's about as accurate as "almost unique" in that both "permanent" and "unique" are absolutes. Something is either unique or it is not, in the same way that something is either permanent or it is not.

In other words, if laser hair removal cannot be termed permanent, it must be temporary: just less temporary than shaving, plucking or waxing.

The term they are supposed to use is "permanent reduction" versus "permanent removal". I think it is something about the FDA language rather than marketing. It's really weird, whatever it is, and mostly nonsense having to do more with "treatment area" rather than effectiveness from what I've read. Since laser covers more than one hair at once but won't remove them all, it's considered reduction of hair in that area. Since electrolysis targets one hair and kills that one hair, it's removal. Even if the end result is the same and there's hair that was there that now won't be ever again.

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