Though we are not usually using settings with enough power to actually burn the hair off the face when performing photofacials, it is theoretically possible to do so due to the fact that the intense pulsed light is absorbed by the melanin, which is within the hair shafts. This is not usually within the fine hairs of the face as these typically do not have any significant amount of melanin within them, but if someone has darker or coarser hair, the photofacial can certainly injure this hair. The settings on the intense pulsed light machine are different and the filters are also different when we are doing a photofacial versus an intense pulsed light hair removal treatment, so to answer your question, classically intense pulsed light will not burn the hair off of somebody’s face during a photofacial treatment.
