• No tanning of any form, including tanning beds and/or self-tanners, for at least 3 week prior to your appointment. Avoid extreme sun exposure for at least 3 weeks prior to your treatment. Failure to do so may cause scarring and/or hyper pigmentation.
• The treatment area needs to be shaved to skin level, although a day’s hair growth may be necessary and helpful so that the area that requires treatment is easily recognizable.
• For best results avoid waxing, plucking, threading or electrolyses of the hair for 4 weeks prior to treatment. The laser needs the hair at skin level in order to effectively penetrate the hair follicle.
• Be sure that the treatment area is fully washed off and has no makeup, medication etc.
• Be certain that you are not on medications such as Accutane, Retin-A, Gold Therapy etc, at present or within the past 6 months. These medications, and several others, can make your skin susceptible to damage from the laser. If in doubt, please ask us for a list of the aforementioned medications.
• Laser treatments for hair are not recommended if you are pregnant.

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• Avoid bathing or washing with very hot water, use tepid water. Wash gently. Keep the area clean.
• If there is redness and discomfort use Aloe Vera gel within the first 2 hours of treatment. We have it in store!
• Avoid deodorant and/or makeup for 24 hours if underarms and/or face were treated.
• Do not shave the treated area for at least 4 days after treatment.
• Avoid any irritating medications or chemicals. Examples of these are Retin-A, Benzoyl peroxide, glycolic acid or astringents.
• Avoid direct sun exposure for at least 3 weeks after treatment. Protect the area with a sunscreen of higher than 30 SPF to prevent hyper-pigmentation/hypo-pigmentation marks.
• Do not wax, pluck, thread or use depilatories for the hair that grows back.
• Results vary after laser treatments, hair may continue to grow. Typically this will occur for about 2-3 weeks and then that treated hair will simply to fall out.

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