Laser hair removal in Laval

The laser works mainly on hair that holds enough pigment. White or grey hair generally does not respond, and very blonde or red hair is far harder to treat. We will tell you before charging you for a session, and electrolysis exists for exactly that.

A tattooed area is not treated directly with the laser: the tattoo pigments absorb the energy too. Electrolysis works around the problem. > 📷 PHOTO, section 4 · Legs or an underarm at rest, natural skin, visible texture. > Avoid: digitally smoothed skin, a model, an advertising pose.

It all comes down to melanin, the pigment that colours hair and skin alike. The laser emits a precise wavelength, absorbed far more strongly by the melanin concentrated in the hair shaft than by the more diffuse melanin in the surrounding skin. The absorbed energy becomes heat at the follicle, where the hair is made, and damages it enough to slow or stop regrowth. The energy therefore concentrates in the hair's pigment, which limits how much the surrounding skin heats. Temporary redness or sensitivity can still happen, and more rarely pigment changes, blisters or other skin reactions: that is why the settings are matched to your skin. That is also why contrast matters: the darker your hair against your skin, the more easily the laser finds its target. A built-in cooling system protects the surface during every pulse, which is where the cold sensation alongside the pinch comes from.

This is the most important question on the page, and the honest answer is not the one most advertising gives. The correct word is reduction, not removal, and the distinction is recognised right across the field. The laser destroys some follicles with each pass, but the hairs in an area are not all at the same stage of growth at the same time, and some follicles that were dormant wake up later, particularly with hormonal change such as pregnancy or menopause. Later regrowth does not therefore mean the treatment failed, and maintenance sessions stay useful. Most people reach a point where regrowth is so fine and so slow that it stops bothering them, with the occasional maintenance session. That is the realistic result, and it is already a great deal.

Several sessions are needed, because your hairs are not all in the same phase of growth at the same time: the laser only acts on the ones in active growth, and the rest are resting, therefore invisible to the device. That is why sessions are spaced several weeks apart and repeated rather than settled all at once, and why booking them close together would not give a better result. The number varies with the area, the hair and how it responds, and the rhythm differs too: the face grows back faster than legs. We recommend between 8 and 10 sessions, and the exact number follows the area: 6 to 10 for underarms, legs and bikini, 8 to 10 for the face, 6 to 8 for arms and back. Appointments sit 3 to 6 weeks apart at the start, then 8 to 12 weeks apart towards the end of the series, and one maintenance session a year is enough afterwards. We give you a closer estimate once we have assessed your skin and your hair.

Yes. The Elite iQ treats skin types 1 through 6, meaning the whole range, from very fair skin that burns without ever tanning to very deep skin. This is a real difference between devices, and a question worth asking before you book: several older lasers cannot treat deeper tones without risk of a burn or a mark, and that is a limit of the device, not of your skin. What changes with your skin type is the settings used, which of the two wavelengths is chosen between the Alexandrite and the Nd:YAG, and the pulse duration, not whether you can be treated. Hair colour stays decisive for how well it works: white, blonde or red hair does not hold enough melanin, whatever your skin. Whether you can be treated also depends on recent tanning, the state of your skin, your medications and the area.

The question is not the season, it is the tan, and that distinction changes everything about planning. Recently exposed skin holds more melanin at the surface, which cuts the contrast with the hair, forces the intensity down, and raises the risk of a reaction or a mark. If you are back from a holiday, if you spend your weekends outdoors, or if you have used self-tanner, we reschedule: that is not excess caution, it is the condition for a session that is both effective and safe. If you protect yourself and your skin is at its usual colour, summer is no obstacle in itself. The same rule applies afterward: strict sun protection on treated areas for several weeks.

Yes, and it matters for two reasons. The area needs a close shave, ideally the day before or that morning, so the laser's energy travels down to the follicle rather than scattering in the visible part of the hair, which would waste the pulse and could feel like a surface burn. Shaving the day before, rather than just before, also keeps you from arriving with freshly irritated skin. What you must not do is wax, tweeze or use an epilator in the weeks beforehand: those methods take the root out, and the root is precisely what the laser needs in place to reach. Forgetting this costs you the whole session.

All three live here and they do not address the same hair. Laser goes after dark hair, the kind that holds melanin, and works over a series spaced several weeks apart because it only reaches hairs in active growth. Electrolysis treats white, blonde, red or tattooed-area hair, one hair at a time, and it is the only method recognised as permanent. Waxing takes every hair without distinction, but the effect is temporary and repeats every few weeks. Before an event, waxing is done the day before, while laser asks you to shave the day before and stay out of the sun afterward. And above all, waxing never belongs between two laser sessions: it removes the root the laser needs to reach.