Hello all, I’m considering laser removal for my unibrow and want to know 2 things.
- Is it safe to have this procedure done.
- Around ballpark how much will it cost me.
Thanks to all.
Hey Fresnoguy
Laser is probably not the best thing to use on a uni-brow since it is not the best tool for accurate targeting of the hairs. What I am saying is with the eyebrows you want to shape them to look natural and with the larger spot sizes used by lasers it will be very difficult for the practitioner to achieve a natural even split between your brows.
An electrolysis can target individual hairs and as such can sculpt your brows into a pleasing natural shape. Go get some consults from your area and good luck.
Chris
Hello,
To answer your question it is safe to treat a unibrow.
The Candela Gentle Lase or Gentle Yag can treat it using an 8mm spot size gauge. This is as about as small as the circumference of a pencil eraser. I am a laser technician in Western KY. I treat eyebrows everyday with satisfaction from all of my clients. They tell me this is easier than waxing. The price we charge is $400 for 5 treatments for eyebrows. Unibrows are half that price Depending on how much hair is there to treat.
Electrolysis on the eybrows would be much less expensive and much more selective, leading to a better aesthetic final result.
The average person starts with a treatment of an hour or less, and drop to treatments times in the 15 to 30 minute range. I can’t imagine anyone paying more than $200 for permanent removal of a Unibrow via Electrolysis.
Furthermore, most doctors I know refuse to perform LASER treatments of this type around the eyes for safety reasons.
Laser is very safe for removing unibrow, if it is in the hands of the proffesional. Plus there is an easy way to “shape” the area of hair removal.
hi sorry to bump up this topic. i was just wondering about getting my uni brow area done aswell. Would The Candela Gentle Lase or Gentle Yag be the best option for me?
electrolysis is a better option for this area as you need precision which laser can’t provide.
Let me weigh in here.
First, my bias is that it is not that safe to treat anywhere near the eye, to include between the eyebrows. For this reason, we stopped treating that area five years ago. Annoyed some of our clients but I think that is the right thing to do.
The risk is not that you will shoot directly into the eye but that enough photons will bounce around inside the bony orbit hitting the retina and damaging it. And that is a real possibility, and it doesn’t really mattter how “good” a tech you are. The risk is there and I don’t think it is worth it.
Furthermore, if you think about what is happening, then the longer the wavelength, the deeper the penetration and the more likely it is to cause this to happen. This means that the GentleYAG is more risky than the alex.
How much real risk? Quite small but the potential outcome is so serious that I don’t think it is worth doing. So even though I realize that there is very little risk, if it were ever to happen, I would feel terrible about it because it is so preventable.
I really don’t understand the LaserBlazers who advocate Lasing the eye area. Most electrologists don’t treat the mucosal tissue of the nose because of the possibility of infection, that in extreme cases would lead to death. The reason they don’t do it is because the client is the one who has to make sure the infection doesn’t happen, and we see how well you all follow our other instructions for aftercare. 
A Laser Operator who is willing to risk a reaction that is completely random and unnoticeable while occuring and permanently damaging to the client is just beyond my comprehension.
Hi there, this is my first post and I hope somebody can help me. I have the same problem as the original poster, basically where I have hair in-between my eyebrows that if I didn’t treat daily, would leaves me with a rather unsightly unibrow. (Rather than start a new thread I thought it was best to bump this thread. )
I have been shaving the area for around 7 years now with an electric razor. It never really bothered me that much until someone about 6 months ago asked whether I shaved the area and since that comment I think it has affected me psychologically and I have become a lot more conscious of the problem. When I now look in the mirror at the end of the day I notice that the hairs are coming through again and I feel I have a 5 o’clock shadow on my skin where I shouldn’t have! As I say, I don’t know if it’s always been this way or if the hair are now growing back quicker and thicker, it’s only since the comment that I have been really bothered by the problem and it really is affecting my confidence around others. I decided that I needed to do something quickly to remove the problem permantely and looked on the net for solutions.
The first site that I came across gave me a scare, basically where someone had had electrolysis around the area and it had caused them scarring. This put me of electrolysis staight away. I then read that a couple of people had had laser treatment in this area and after around 6-10 sessions the problem was virtually gone and most of the hair had been reduced. I understood that laser would only mean reduction but thought this was better than nothing. So I again looked on the net and found a place that specialized in laser hair removal, I arranged a consultation and went along and discussed the issue.
The lady I saw was very nice and she explained the procedure. She said I was an ideal candidate as I was a white, healthy male (i’m in my twenties) with dark brown hair and that the laser would work well on my skin. She arranged for a patch test which I went along for the following week. This went fine, nothing to painful and I was out within 5 minutes. I arranged for my first proper session the following week. I went along last Friday for this and had the treatment. It was quite painful but bearable. She provided me with goggles which I put over my eyes and I also closed my eyes tightly will the treatment was administered. After the treatment the area was red and sore but she said this would subside quickly and that I would be back to normal within 6-24 hours and she advised me to dab the area with Nivea for the next 24 hours. She said that as long as the area felt fine the next day, I could go back to shaving the area.
The next day, after putting on Nivea that night before, the area felt fine and as 24 hours had passed and I was due to meet a friend I felt that I wanted to shave the area. I did so, as per usual with my electric razor. As I shaved the area the skin started to bleed slightly and began to fell sore. I stopped the shaving and cancelled my plans to go out. I felt a bit concerned by what had happened. It was then that I decided to put into Google to see if there was any information about what had happened. It was then that I randomally came across this site and in particular this thread and the above post made by James W Walker V11 back in 2007. As I read the post I became very worried and it has lead me to sign up to get advise. My main questions are to James or anyone who has experience in this field.
Firstly, do you believe that I could have affected the mucosal tissue in my nose from having the laser around the eyebrow area? The laser was only directed between the gap between my eyebrows and never went any lower than the start of my nose where a pair of glasses would sit.
- The fact that I cut myself on the area between my eyebrows and it bleed, does this increase the chances that I could get an infection in the mucosal tissue? James, you said that the patient wouldn’t know anything about the problem as it is a “reaction that is completely random and unnoticeable while occurring and permanently damaging”. To make matters worse I have also had a heavy cold this past week, I asked the therapist on the day and she said this would be fine to proceed but I also researched another a post on here by James saying that you should not have this type of treatment around the nose area if you have a cold. Again, as you can imagine, reading this has made me very worried.
Since the incident, I have not shaved the area and I have continued to put the Nivea balm on. The area is healing quite well and in a day or so I would like to shave the area as at the moment the area is very stubbly and unsightly. Luckily I had taken a weeks holiday this week from work just to sought some issues out so I haven’t had to have the embarrassment of facing my colleagues with the unibrow, i have just stayed at home. But I am due back at work Thursday so I really would like to shave the area.
I have decided not to have any further laser treatments and reading quite a few posts on here it seems that electrolysis after all is the best option for me as the area I need treating is small and each individual hair can be targeted. It just seems that the random first post that I came across on the net originally scared me off this procedure and I didn’t fully research it and instead went for the laser option.
I’m sorry for such a long first post but I must admit that reading the above post has really scarred me and any advice would be much appreciated.
You don’t need laser for this area. A skilled electrologist can set you free in one appointment to CLEAR the area of individual hairs that are bothersome. You still need to have several sessions spread out over 9-12 months to catch any new hairs that come to the surface. My last guy needed 22 sessions totaling about 15 minutes each over a year. That’s about 5.5 hours worth of electrolysis, in total, over a year. He had a severe problem, but he looks so different now and is certainly not self-conscious anymore.
Where you had treatment, the unibrow, is not going to affect your nasal mucosa. Relax!
Electrolysis is not for small areas only. If you take the worst electrologists out there, then that may apply, but most of us can handle larger areas if one has the right equipment, training and stamina.
You can continue with laser, but you will never get the special refinement that electrolysis offers because of the unique way we remove individaul hairs. For this area, I use both blend and thermolysis. For a young man with oily skin, one needs to watch the skin reaction and make adjustments as needed with the intensity and timing.
Aftercare - I would use aloe vera gel cold from the fridge and I would put a little dab of tea tree oil on at bedtime for the first three days. That would be good laser aftercare as well. What’s in Nivea that treats minor burns?
Scarring is very rare with electrolysis and laser. Temporary skin reactions are not rare and most people confuse the two.
I end as I begin - I would get electrolysis for your unibrow. If there is there is not a great practitioner in your area, then laser it would have to be!
Welcome to hairtell.
Dee
Thank you for your reply Dee, you have settled my nerves slightly! I am determined to sought this problem out once and for all and have decided I am defiantly going to go for the Electrolysis option. I just have a few more questions that I hope you or others don’t mind answering.
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Given the small area, could I honestly expect to see a major difference after just one session?
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How long would the hair need to be ‘grown in’ at the time I have the treatment? Would say a days growth, where the area would be slightly stubbly, be enough for the therapist to work with?
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How painful would the treatment be in the unibrow area? I have read that electrolysis is more painful than laser? I found laser to be unpleasant but just about bearable.
Yes, you will see a visual difference the first session, but you will not be finished because of hair growth cycles. Stick with this for 9-12 months of regularly spaced appointments, with a COMPETENT electrologist. Don’t lose hope at month four because you are only less than half way there.
A day or three of growth is good, but the appropriate question to be concerned with is, does the electrologist have quality magnification and lighting to see and treat the hairs. Some set ups are cheaply pitiful and somewhere down the road, the client comes here ticked wondering why they are not progressing. The hair only has to be about 1/16" for an electrologist with surgical type magnification to grasp after treating.
Pain is subjective and most likely your reaction to pain was learned in childhood. It is amazing how different clients react to the same levels used in the same areas. Reactions range from sleep to uses the Lamaze methods for dealing with the pain of childbirth. An electrologist who uses the correct size probe and has perfect or near perfect insertions and sets the timing and intensity just enough for the hair to release will serve you well. Even if you are highly sensitive to pain, you will be pleasantly pleased by a treatment offered with a skilled, updated electrologist. If she/he has invested in the better technology professional epilators offered by some of the fabulous companies supplying the electrolysis practitioners, then you will again be well pleased.
With my particular setup for my electrolysis practice, my ex-laser clients say electrolysis is far less painful than laser and my tattoo clients definitely say that electrolysis is a breeze compared to getting a tattoo.
Sample as many practitioners as you can. Get some short treatments (that’s all you can expect for the unibrow), see how it feels and see how it heals. Check out the office. Is the office clean? Does the practitioner look well-groomed, fresh breath, etc. Does she wash her hands and use gloves, sterile prepackaged probe? Go to www.hairfacts.com and search the electrolysis section for more information on choosing a practitioner, as I can’t possibly type all you need to know.
I think you have chosen the correct way to rid yourself of hair finally. Pursue this with knowledge and you will be fine.
Dee