Can laser just makes all the hairs uniformly thin?

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#1

Thinner I mean. As opposed to destroying the follicles permanently? And can it be done completely uniformly, without patchiness? Has anyone had this done? I’d be interested in getting laser for my beard because it seems to be the only thing that offers the end result I’d like, with reduction and an end to the beard shadow and whatnot.

I would consider electrolysis, except it’s so expensive and I don’t want hairs to be permanently destroyed, I just want a different, thinner beard, and I was just hoping there was some perspective/input/success stories concerning this.

#2

You can’t special order the look you want with laser. It disables groups of hair follicles at random and some hair follicles are not targeted because they can’t be “seen” by the laser. Patchiness is a common problem on the male beard when laser is used.

Electrolysis is more specific because we target one hair follicle at a time and select which hair follicles go and which hair follicles stay. You can be thinned evenly with electrolysis to reduce the number of hairs in an area, but the goal of thinning a thick hair to make it a thin hair is not as predictable, though theoretically, it could be done.

#3

Cool, I got an answer!

Okay, but I thought electrolysis was boolean: either you didn’t treat a hair and kept it, or you treated a hair and it gets zapped and gone forever. Is there a middle option to thin out hairs with electrolysis?

On the one hand I saw James offer a thinner look with just a day or two’s full clearance, but I’m not sure how realistic that is, or how expensive it is. Laser seems easier, but then there’s the patchiness. I’m a good candidate though I think, with much darker hair than I have skin. I believe my skin is between II and III, and olive, and my beard is all black and thick and coarse.

Also if anyone had one or two treatments with laser and didn’t experience patchiness a year out, I would love to hear from such potentially mythical creatures.