How Getting Laser Hair Removal in Mundelein Can Change Your Life

Firstly, here are 3 things to know about laser hair removal in Mundelien, IL:

1.  Be prepared for your appointment. Older hair removal methods required that you grow hair out a bit so the laser could “see” it.

The modalities that we use for Laser Hair Removal in Mundelein at Cordial Medical Spa are made to be used on freshly shaven skin (NOT waxed or tweezed). The follicle must be intact so the laser/light can target the hair, but no hair needs to be present on the surface of the skin (in fact, there is a strong likelihood of more pain if lots of stubble is present at the treatment site).

Do yourself and Dr. Glantsman’s team of experienced aesthetics professionals a favor by shaving before you arrive for your appointment. Try to avoid photo-sensitizing drugs like antibiotics and retinols for two weeks before treatments, but if you CAN’T, make sure our team is aware of what you are using.

Also, for the most effective treatments, you want the variance between the hair color and the skin color to be as great as possible, so one way to improve your experience is to avoid treatment after tanning.

The same goes for spray tans—wait two weeks post-spray tan or self-tanner to make your hair removal appointment.

2. Adjust your expectations. There is genuinely no such thing as truly permanent laser hair REMOVAL - you can never stop hair from going in a completely permanent way. That is why most laser companies have moved away from referring to it as “Laser Hair Removal” and instead call it laser hair reduction.

We still use the more common phrase simply because it’s more common and we want to provide as much information to our audience as we can.

The reality is that the normal end goal is an 80-90% total reduction. Because many areas that are treated with LHR are hormonally driven areas (i.e,, bikini, chin), you could have some regrowth as your hormones change with age, which means you may to need to go in for a touchup treatment once every 1-2 years to ensure that you’re keeping things clean and fresh.

Hopefully in the near future this will change, but currently, laser hair removal is best for darker, coarser hair. That means super blond, light hair on the legs, arms, and face may not respond as well.

Gray hairs which lack pigment do not typically respond well. Red hair is also notoriously harder to treat but our experienced laser techs are able to refine treatment to handle most areas of hair that contain any pigment.

So while there are some limitations, laser hair removal is still the best way to dramatically reduce unwanted hair on any part of your body.

3. The number of sessions required will vary, depending on the type of technology being used and your hair type, skin type, etc. An average treatment plan will require anywhere from 5-12 treatments.

While you can expect to see some reduction a few weeks after your very first treatment, it’s necessary to treat ALL growth cycles of hair, not just what is growing right now; hence, the multiple treatments.

The goal is to reduce all the hair follicles, no matter which cycle, so one or two treatments won’t cut it.

Sessions will be about four weeks apart in the beginning and will likely spread out gradually with each treatment.

I can assure you that if you try laser hair removal in Mundelein, you won’t regret it. When you look at the time and financial statistics of the treatment, you’re too busy NOT to do it. Anything that can shave (haha) precious minutes off of your beauty routine while providing a superior result is going to be worth it.

Imagine that it’s April and your child receives a birthday party invitation for an indoor pool party at the Mundelein Park District. Obviously, your kiddo is super pumped and you RSVP yes. One hour before the party starts (let’s be real, it’s like 15 minutes before, you still have to grab a birthday present on the way), you re-read the invitation and it says that parents are strongly encouraged to swim with the children for safety purposes.

Here are your options…

A. Tell your child right then and there that Mommy’s too pudgy/pasty/hairy to go, and cancel last minute? Or, GO, but refuse to get in the pool, like a real party pooper?

B. Grab your swimsuit, a gigantic coverup, and the razor you haven’t touched since September and do a quick shave in the bathroom at the pool, inevitably cutting yourself in your haste—accidentally missing spots on your bikini line, telling yourself that even though the missed hair, blood from the nicks, and instant razor burn mixture will likely scar the children in attendance for life, but at least you are having fun in the pool with your child like the good mom you are?

C. Go to the party. Have fun knowing full well that even though you haven’t shaven anything in months, you will not have a single unsightly hair sticking out of places it shouldn’t be. You might be ghostly pale, but at least you aren’t ghostly pale AND hairy.

If you didn’t answer C immediately, then laser hair removal in Mundelein from Cordial Medical Spa is for you. It will change your life in more ways than we’ve imagined in this article.

Imagine not buying razors. Did you know that the average American spends around $10,000 in their lifetime on shaving/trimming/and waxing hair. Each person also uses nearly 8,000 gallons of water for shaving alone in a year and a little over two hours is spent each month just on shaving or waxing?

Laser hair removal is NOT a new treatment by any means, but the technology has improved by leaps and bounds over the years. And, because it’s not anything new and groundbreaking, cost has gone down significantly overall.

You’ll be surprised at how cost-effective it can be. Contact us to schedule your initial skin analysis today!