Hair removal in Laval

It depends what you are after, and both answers are legitimate. Waxing gives you a result the same day, it works on every hair colour, and it needs no planning: you come when it suits you. The downside is that you repeat it every few weeks, indefinitely. Laser is the opposite: nothing immediate, a series to plan, but the aim is to reduce regrowth so you stop thinking about it. If you are flying out on Friday, wax. If the chore every other day is precisely what wears you down, laser.

Yes, and it is one of the reasons the institute chose this device. The Elite iQ carries two wavelengths: Alexandrite at 755 nm, more effective on lighter skin, and Nd:YAG at 1064 nm, which passes through the pigment in the skin to reach the pigment in the hair. That second one is what makes darker phototypes safe to treat. Plenty of older devices have only one wavelength and cannot do it: on darker skin they risk targeting the skin itself. The wavelength and the settings are chosen at each session, based on your skin that day.

Because it has nothing to aim at. A laser works by heating melanin, the pigment that gives hair its colour, and that heat reaches the root. A white or blond hair does not have enough pigment: the energy has nowhere to land. It is not a matter of power or of session count, it is the principle of the technique. In that case electrolysis is the only one of the three that works, because it looks for no pigment at all: it treats the hair with a probe, one at a time.

We recommend a minimum of 10 sessions for a full series, and a single area on its own takes fewer: 6 to 10 for underarms, legs and bikini, 8 to 10 for the face, 6 to 8 for arms and back. The total then depends on how dense your hair is, your phototype and its colour. What does not change is that hair can only be treated while it is growing, and not all of your hair is growing at once, which is why sessions are spaced out and repeated. We give you a precise estimate at the first session, looking at your area.

Yes, and it is the most common path among people who see it through. Laser does the bulk of the work on the pigmented hairs of an area. Electrolysis then picks up the few white or pale hairs it left, which goes quickly since there are not many. And waxing covers you between two laser sessions on an area you want clear for an occasion. What you must not do is wax or tweeze between two laser sessions on the treated area: the root has to be in place for the laser to have something to reach.

Before a laser session, yes: the area is shaved the day before or that morning. The hair has to be present under the skin but not above it, otherwise the energy scatters into the visible part and burns at the surface instead of reaching the root. Before waxing it is the opposite: there has to be hair to grip, a few millimetres. Before electrolysis we will tell you at the consultation, because it depends on the area and on what was done before.