If I do laser on my beard every 2 months, is there any harm in doing electrolysis in the same exact area in between the laser sessions? Maybe weekly? Would one treatment affect the other?
Why did you want to do this both treatment in the same time ?
If you want to receive an electrolysis treatment, you don’t have to do laser.
Why wouldn’t you just finish the course of laser treatments and then finish up with electrolysis for the remaining hairs that are finer and lighter?
I, personally, would refuse to work on a client who is doing laser and wants to do electrolysis at the same time. The reason being if the laser treatments are not working and it is inducing growth electrolysis treatments would be pointless. there would be a good chance that my work will be ‘undone’ with Laser. Laser cannot guarantee permanent results but Eletrolysis performed by a skilled and professional electrologist can guarantee permanent hair removal.
You can’t have two artists painting on the same canvas.
well said !
There are colleagues who provide both and on the same day. I hope they will respond.
Three of my current clients were doing both. Two recently decided to give up the laser and do only electrolysis. One, a physician is having me work on white hair.
Skin reactions are good, results are happening.
Clients are taken immediately from the laser table to the electrolysis table. The white hairs are treated and come out really easy.
@ dfahey and Barbara : I understand that doing the both treatment is ok in order to treat white hair because the laser has no effect on white hair.
But if you are doing electrolysis on client with black hair, who also is getting a laser treatment, do you thing it is a better way to remove hair ?
What area?
The face for exemple.
But in general do you prefer working on people who receive at the same time laser treatment ?
I do not understand. If the area has been shaved, how is it possible to receive laser and electrolysis treatments on the same day?
My guess is the 24 hour mark afterwards (when the hair is just long enough to grab with tweezers) but short enough that it’s safe for laser treatment. It’s a fairly narrow window I would assume
I have the same question. Maybe the same day doing the both procedure is impossible. Even if you are waiting 24h, the hair are to small I think, to do electrolysis.
Yes, there is a couple of places near me that offer the same thing. I would think though that right after laser, the skin would be too sensitive/sore to withstand electrolysis treatment. However, the two people I’ve asked who have done this seem to think it worked out great.
Regarding my initial question, I was thinking more along the lines of spacing out the treatments by one or two weeks in between. For example, if laser is done every 8 weeks, would it benefit at all (or hurt) to have electrolysis done 3 to 4 times in between the laser treatments (maybe once a week)?
One problem I encountered with laser was this:
if I shave the hair too short, sometimes the hair will get disconnected from the root but does not make it’s way 100% out, it ends up just hovering under the skin. When the skin dries or the pore gets clogged, that hair stays under the skin and irritates the surrounding area. Although it does NOT become an ingrown or hurt anywhere near an ingrown, it still irritates the area and sometimes temporarily changes the texture of skin around the hair. That hair will usually not come out until the new hair grows and starts “encouraging” it to move out. For these cases, electrolysis have proven to be very valuable as they ensure the hair is completely out - even after laser treatments.