Permanently Remove Facial Hair with Laser Hair Removal. Laser hair removal for your face is the perfect solution the annoyance of unwanted facial hair.

Unwanted facial hair on women frequently presents itself across the upper lip, chin and sides of the face. The good news is that with laser hair removal for your face, it is possible to kiss that undesirable hair good bye!

Many women elect to tweeze their hairs or perform face waxing. In general, those aren’t the best remedies, as repeated plucking and waxing frequently causes irritation within the unwanted hair follicle and, on darker-skinned women, may also lead to skin damage. Unless you have just a few stray hairs that occasionally come about, save the tweezers for other uses.

Laser Facial Hair Removal Side Effects:  Permanent 40- 60%  Reduction in Hair Growth after 3 Treatments

Although laser facial hair removal is usually billed as permanent, a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction after 3 laser hair removal treatments, performed a month or so apart, is expected.

On facial areas, several maintenance treatments can be necessary for flawless hair removal.

Face Waxing Sounds Odd, and it is Unnecessary

Most women pluck, wax, or bleach their unwanted facial hairs, but this can get to be quite an inconvenience if there are many visible unwanted hairs.

Laser Hair Removal Prices

As laser hair removal prices have come down substantially in the past months, you no longer have to worry about excessive hair.

Based on what part of the country you live in, the cost for laser hair removal should range from$ 150 to$ 350 for each facial region.

A quick phone call to a qualified laser center might just save you many hours of annoyance and frustration.

The New York Times published an article entitled “Zapping Teenage Torment,” which discusses teenagers with unwanted facial hair and the difficulties and solutions they’ve experienced as a result.

Below are a few excerpts:

ADOLESCENCE is an awkward time to grow a mustache.  Especially if you’re a girl.

When Vidya Srinivasan was 7, girls would make her play a man in games of make-believe because of the downy hairs on her upper lip. “It really started messing up my self-esteem,” said Vidya, now 13. “I got to thinking that maybe there’d been a mistake and I was really born a boy.”

Her mother, Dr. Hema Sundaram, a dermatologist in suburban Washington, tried to reassure her. The amount of hair a girl sprouts (and where) varies widely based on genetics, hormones and ethnicity, Dr. Sundaram said, and a bit of facial hair is not uncommon among women who, like the doctor and her daughter, are of Indian descent.

“But she started crying, and I felt like crying with her,” Dr. Sundaram said. “I tried to impart that if someone is saying something bad about you, it’s usually because they feel bad about themselves. But it’s very tough to deal with that when you’re 7.”

Together they decided to get rid of the unwanted lip hair. Bleach proved ineffective, depilatory creams irritated Vidya’s skin, and Dr. Sundaram ruled out waxing because of the inflamed follicles she had seen in her practice. Since last year, Dr. Sundaram has brought her daughter into her office several times to use a laser to put the hairs — and Heathers — at bay.

Her tormentors were silenced and, Vidya said, “I felt like I’d won.”

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And now removing hair, like getting braces, is making the transition from vanity to necessity for increasingly more parents and their girls and boys. “I have a teenage client who is on the swim team and is getting hair removed from his back,” said Rena Abdinova, a registered nurse and an owner of the City Skin and Laser Clinic in San Francisco. “He has a 24-year-old brother who was also on the swim team in high school and had hair on his back, but then it wasn’t an issue. People are becoming much more self-conscious about hair.”

[via NYT]