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Can't you shave before laser hair removal?
Shave your hair thoroughly before laser hair removal. Because it can be seen that the hair will damage the epidermis due to the high heat generated by laser cauterization, it will also cause irreversible damage to the laser guide head and produce unpleasant smell, but mechanical hair removal or wax hair removal cannot be used.

Laser hair removal has few side effects. The most common skin reactions include pain, temporary erythema around hair follicles and edema. More serious is the formation of blisters, pigmentation and hypopigmentation, with few scars.

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Since puberty, the body will grow some excessive or redundant hair, such as excessive facial hair, leg hair, armpit hair or long hand hair. Excessive hair is a common beauty problem that plagues women and men.

Traditional hair removal methods include shaving, mechanical hair removal, wax hair removal, chemical hair removal, tweezers hair removal and so on. The same disadvantage is that it is difficult to destroy hair matrix and hair follicle stem cells, and only temporary hair removal can be achieved. Although electrolysis and thermal dissolution can effectively destroy hair follicles, they have the disadvantages of complicated operation, time-consuming, low efficiency, low curative effect, obvious pain and so on, and may leave scars.

Permanent hair removal is the use of hair removal laser to generate ultra-high frequency oscillation signal, forming electrostatic field, acting on hair, destroying hair follicles, making hair fall off and not growing new hair, thus achieving the effect of permanent hair removal.

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