I now have a client for electrolysis, who had been undergoing Laser Hair removal. After three visits for laser hair removal came to me to work on other body areas.
I was told that facial hair was now coming out white, and decided to give my impression on whether more laser treatments would do any good. I removed about 40 hairs from different areas of the face, and all but one hair had less color in the hair than skin tone. I found the hairs to be very deep.
I suspect the reason for the loss of color in the hairs, to somehow be tied to loss of blood supply to the papilla.
My feelings are that because of this loss of hair color, further Laser treatments would not be productive.
What are others opinions on here in this regards.
I agree that laser does cause color loss. I had my neck beneath my chin lasered as well as my upper arms and now I have white hairs everywhere. I’m only 33 years old!
Your client will not benefit from anymore laser treatments. Laser cannot “see” white, clear, blond or red hairs and I would hope that the person doing laser would be ethical and honest enough to refuse to treat her/him.
In your client’s case, those hairs may have already been there prior to laser, but could not be noticed until the darker hairs were eliminated.
In other cases, it is not unusual for the hair to end up reduced in size and color. That is where an electrologist becomes very popular. People that need to go beyond getting the dark hairs post-laser need skillful electrolysis with a practitioner that can SEE those lighter and finer hairs. Choose someone with good magnification and quality lighting.
Dee
When I had a test patch with laser done on my stomach, some of the hairs that grew back were odd, silver hairs that I a certain weren’t like that before. I don’t know why this happens, but it’d definitely a laser side effect.
it’s unusual for laser to change the color of the hair. there have been a few instances reported where this has happened on a few hairs in one area, but i believe once that hair sheds, the new hairs in the next stage will be the same color as before. in many instances clients also just start paying more attention to the area and start noticing these hairs which weren’t noticeable when there was a lot of dark dense hair around.
I personally had a few hairs turn white on my underarms, but they fell out.
These are not just a few hairs we are talking about. The hair density is the thickest tha I have seen. Hair diameters are such that I should probably be using about a #8 probe. I was just using a number 4 probe and the removed hairs were so much thicker than my probe. Hairs were red prior to having laser. Instructions given were to shave as close as possible to the skin prior to treatment, and then to wait for hairs to fall out. Which tells me that they never checked what the hairs were like prior to treatment.
Person stated that the laser business were trying to hold her to a contract of having to pay in excess of $2500, even though the treatments are not effective for her hair type.
I have more than one client who has had LASER and had a change in hair color.
One 28 year old ended up with white and clear hairs on the treated area. This did not match the red/auburn hair on his head. Ten years later, the hair on the head is still red/auburn and the facial hair… well that is gone because King James The Hair Reaper was here!
yes, it is a side effect of laser,Some days ago one of my client face the same problem, He is only 31 years old and he lost his all hair color for laser.now his hair color is white.