Question: As a 29-year-old woman, I have been shaving for about 16 years already. I am just plain tired of it. I do not mind doing it every once in a while but I hate having to do it every other day. Would laser hair removal make my hair grow more slowly after a few treatments?
Answer: If your hair is dark and relatively coarse, laser hair removal treatments should actually rid you of the majority of the hair that you have in that location. Any hairs that remain are typically much thinner and are less pigmented than they had been and are therefore much less of a concern to the patient. Many times after a series of laser hair removal treatments, all we have left are some nonpigmented thin hairs, which the patient can then essentially pluck or shave as they desire as these hairs are extraordinarily difficult to completely get rid of due to the fact that they have completely lost their pigment.