Hair removal for men in Laval

Yes for waxing, where it is all settled in the same visit. With the laser the surface is large but the session stays reasonable, around an hour for a full back. What takes time is not the session, it is the series: each appointment only treats the hairs growing at that moment, and they are not all growing at once. Plenty of men start with the shoulders and upper back, the part they see in the bathroom mirror, before extending.

It is the most common reason men come in, and yes, removing the hair durably removes the cause of the daily friction. Laser on the throat is routine, and it often goes with work on the beard line to keep a clean edge. Worth knowing first: the area is sensitive, the skin there is thin, and the first session surprises you more than one on an arm. If you have active, inflamed ingrown hairs, say so; we look at the state of the skin before heating anything.

It takes what has kept its colour and leaves what has gone white. That is frustrating, and it is why we say it up front: on a salt-and-pepper beard the result will be partial by definition. Two honest ways out. Either we laser what is still dark and pick up the white with electrolysis, which becomes workable since there is little left. Or, if the area is already very grey, we go straight to electrolysis. What we will not do is sell you a laser series and hope it eventually works.

No. It is a stubborn idea, and it comes from shaving: a hair cut flat grows back with a blunt end that prickles and looks thicker, while nothing has changed under the skin. Waxing and laser do not do that, since they work the root and not the tip. After waxing, the hair that comes back is often finer, because it starts from scratch.

We recommend a minimum of 10 sessions for a full series, 6 to 8 on the back and arms alone. The total then depends on your density, your phototype and the colour of your hair. What stays constant is that hair can only be treated while growing, so appointments are spaced out and repeated: 4 to 6 weeks apart at the start, 6 to 8 weeks apart towards the end. We give you a precise estimate at the first appointment, after looking at the area.

Before a laser session, yes, the day before or that morning. The hair has to be under the skin, not above it: what sticks out absorbs the energy at the surface instead of carrying it to the root. Before waxing, the opposite, you need a few millimetres to grip. And between two laser sessions you shave but you do not epilate: pulling out the root takes away what the laser came for.