I need recommendations on a clinic where I can receive both laser and electrolysis hair removal. I don’t want to have to run all over the city to get each one of them done. I just don’t have the time. Also, does laser work on the chin and jaw line? I’d prefer to get laser done, as I don’t want to let the hairs grow out to get electrolysis because I work and go to school closely with the public. It’s too embarrassing to have dark coarse hairs coming out of my face when I’m waiting on an electrolysis appointment. I’m in St. Louis, MO and need recommendations. Please help me.
This is a tough one. There just aren’t many clinics in the country that offer both. Plus, you need someone with the right laser type, and someone doing electrolysis will not necessarily have it. Unfortunately, if you want results, you can’t approach things like this. You’ll have to put in some work into doing research, checking out 4-5 different laser clinics, and several electrologists for sample treatments as well. Of course, if you don’t care about potentially wasting your money or getting burned (literally and figureatively), you can go anywhere. But we don’t recommend that.
Please start by reading the FAQs here. We need to know a lot more about your situation before being able to recommend what laser is needed, and whether it’s even right for you in the first place. Please describe exactly what you’re trying to remove and where exactly and what type of hair you have there. Also, whether you’re male or female, and your skin type.
Laser can work anyplace that has coarse, dense, dark hair and that includes the chin and jawline. Lighter skin is best to work on. I am not a proponent for facial laser hair reduction and won’t belabor why I prefer electrolysis for facial hair.
A modernly equipped and well-trained electrologist can attack hair on the face with a certain ease that will please the client IIIIFFFFF! she/he has the proper set up.
There are numerous electrologists that are laser specialists as well. Please peruse this website http://www.scmhr.org/ and see if you can start the consult process. Click on the patient section > then click on SCMHR members > click on the state you live in.
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Good luck.
Dee
Thanks for the replies. I have dark coarse hair on my chin and jaw line, chest and stomach. I am a mixed race so I’m fair with light eyes and hair, but also darker complected than Caucasion. When I go to get hair removal done, they usually have a hard time determining what skin type category I fall into. Anyway I do know that it’s very important finding the right laser hair removal specialist and electrologist to get the right results. I’ve wasted money in the past on people who simply just didn’t know what in the world they were doing. Also is it ok to do laser hair removal while on accutane? I’ll be starting the drug soon, and I’d like to have my cake and eat it too and be able to treat my acne and get this awful unwanted hair removed. I’ve waited long enough.
Most dermatologists recommend waiting 1 year after taking isotretinoin (Accutane) before doing laser hair removal because of atypical scarring that has been associated with use of this drug during treatment.
There might be other protocols. Poster “Choice” might have some comments on this as well.
Dee
You cannot be on photosensitive drugs like Accutane for at least 6 months before you start hair removal. So no, you can’t do it at the same time or you will burn your skin.