Hello everyone, this is my first post as I just had my first treatment to remove excess eyebrow hair growing between my eyebrows and my hairline, I was given a little pair of blackout goggles to wear, my question is during the treatment is it normal to be able to see red pulses of laser/light even while wearing these goggles? Thanks
Someone else needs to answer your question. I firmly believe that electrolysis is the answer to eyebrow hair. It is very safe and precise. Keep a mirror close by to guide your electrologist. Communicate tightly with her or him.
Electrolysis is a better idea in this in my opinion. Laser is for large areas, for a number of reasons - it isn’t easy to be accurate with such a small area, and you don’t want to lose your eyebrows :S
Thank you for the replies, however I don’t believe either of you have answered my question, I am assuming you have not had laser performed on you then. I am doing a few laser treatments first and then following up with electrolysis to clean it up, I initially went for an electrolysis consultation but due to the unruley ammount of eyebrow hair we decided to start with laser and take care of the rest via electrolysis. Thanks
Lol, I don’t assume there WOULD be many people who have had laser on their eyebrows!
Well I am sure it is natural to see the light as it is so darn close to your eyes, maybe you should ask your practitioner if it is normal. I hope the part between the hairline and eyebrows is thick hair, if it is thin you could run the risk of hair growth being induced rather than reduced.
I dont think the OP was talking about eyebrows, it was hair from eyebrows to forehead. There is no evidence anecdotal or otherwise for stimulated growth in this area
The red flashes are perfectly normal, I warn my clients to even see blood vessels with the flash. Please dont worry about it, but your provider should have warned you.
I didn’t answer your question about the light you saw because I didn’t know the answer and basically said so. I’m thankful for you that Guidance stepped up to help. I do know with certainty that a good electrologist can handle an unruly amount of eyebrow hair. A good electrologist can handle large areas anywhere as long as they have a good set up, speed and endurance. Again, the eyebrows are the domain of electroysis because we can be very precise, going hair by hair, oh so carefully. Your whole facial expression can change if there is a screw up on your eyebrow line. Be careful. We have had some very upset posters here who were devastated by the work done on the eyebrow area because of practitioner inattention. Can you submit a picture of your eyebrows?
There is no problem seeing laser light as long as it’s through the goggles.
I agree with the above though. I would NOT do laser on either eyebrows or the hairline as it’s impossible to get precise results and there is no way to get that hair back. It’s your face and visible. So no advantage to doing laser first. For such relatively small areas, laser is not really any advantage in terms of cost.
Btw, I had laser done on many areas successfully and chose to do my eyebrows with electrolysis. Have been done for years on all areas.
Thank you for all the replies. I know I should have asked her but at the time I never thought about it until after I got home. dFahey I know you mentioned that you couldn’t answer my question but the other poster did not, I do appreciate the advice. I should maybe add that I am a male so I am not looking for totally shaped or a painted on eyebrow look like most females do, I want to go for a more natural look so the line doesn’t have to be perfect just trying to eliminate stray hairs above the eyebrows and the unibrow formation as it just doesn’t look good as I am sure you all would agree, as far as pictures go I’ll see what I can do but it might be hard as I don’t have anyone else living with me to take them for me. Thanks
I know, I know, I’m a horrible person for not saying, “oh I can’t answer your question giggle”.
Did it hurt your feelings?
I don’t think you’re understanding the risks here. Laser is NOT for “stray” hairs because it is known to stimulate MORE growth on the areas it touches where there is currently no hair or vellus hair. So you may end up with more hair than you started with. If that’s the risk you’re willing to take, that’s up to you. We’re just giving you all the facts, so you can make decisions knowingly.
Just bruised but I think I’ll live, jk…It’s ok emilily I forgive you 
LAgirl, maybe I am being a little modest, by stray I don’t mean a few hairs but more like stray as not in the proper place or outside of normal range, believe me there are more then just a few or I would not care about it as I am not really vain. thanks
I had the inbetween my eyebrows done a few years ago with IPL. It worked great for me. I actually had good results with that and my hands.
What was the name of the IPL you used?
I have seen great results on some of my clients who IPL’ed their legs. Probably about 80% of the hair was affected and then I cleaned up the rest with electrolysis. Other clients had induced hair growth on their necks and faces. Makes me curious as to why the difference.
I am happy for you! Thanks for posting.
A bit speculation on the differences: hair on the legs and similar regions is usually fully developend. There is not much left to stimulate. On the (female) face sleeping (fully inactive) follicles and vellus hairs are usually dominating. So we just need a mechanism awakening sleeping follicles and/or activating vellus hair in order to explain such a difference.
Follicles of legs and arms are usually shallower than they are in the face and thus see the light with sufficient intensity - again in contrast to the deep facial follicles, where often enough massive intensities of the flashing light are needed to obain the desired effect (and often can’t because the skin would be damaged)
Sounds plausible enough to me.
If there are spaces between the hairs, they are “stray” hairs in my view. Laser should only be used on areas with dense hair. Basically, if there are any spots with little or vellus hair touched by laser on the face, it can often stimulate new hair to grow.
Since the area between the eyebrows is so small, it’s almost impossible for laser to avoid hitting nearby areas.