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Table of Contents
Section A – Hair Removal ............................................................................................................................. 8
A1 - Hair removal - Diode, Nd:YAG or Alexandrite lasers. Or IPLs? Which is "best"?.........................................9
A2 - What are the differences between lasers and IPLs?.................................................................................14
A3 - What are the three most important factors in laser/IPL hair removal? ................................................... 15
A4 - Hair Removal - Why is it painful? .............................................................................................................17
A5 - Why are laser/IPL hair removal treatments painful? And how do we minimise it? .................................18
A6 - Laser/IPL Hair Removal – Can it really be “pain-free” and still be effective? ........................................... 19
A7 - IPL Hair Removal - How to achieve good results, from an expert - Marlon! ............................................23
A8 - Why we should NOT reduce the fluence when treating darker skins!!! ...................................................26
A9 - What is the risk of 'burning' the skin with a laser or IPL? ......................................................................... 29
A10 - What are the threshold (minimum) fluences needed to ensure successful hair removal? ..................... 32
A11 - Laser/IPL Hair Removal - How many follicles do we kill each treatment?..............................................34
A12 - "The hairs grow back after the treatment..." .........................................................................................37
A13 - How much energy is really coming out of your laser/IPL device?...........................................................39
A14 - Hair removal intervals – PART 1 ............................................................................................................. 42
A15 - What is the ‘best’ interval between hair removal sessions (after treatment by lasers or IPLs)? PART 2. ......................................................................................................................................................................... 47
A16 - The Hair Growth Cycle & Laser/IPL Treatments. When is the 'best' time to treat?................................52
A17 - Laser/IPL pain in hair removal ................................................................................................................ 55
A18 - Diode Lasers - Average Power vs Peak Power ........................................................................................ 57
A19 - More about laser power - average versus peak!! With videos...............................................................61
A20 - Why do ‘finer’ and ‘lighter’ hairs appear after laser/IPL hair removal treatments? .............................. 63
A21 - Thick and thin hair – how much light energy do they absorb?...............................................................65
A22 - How to choose your laser/IPL parameters properly. ..............................................................................68
A23 - Laser/IPL Hair Removal – “over-cooling” is virtually impossible!!..........................................................83
A24 - Hair removal using Diode lasers vs Nd:YAG, Alex lasers & IPLs..............................................................85
A25 - SHR – Just how good is it? ......................................................................................................................88
A26 - SHR/In motion update ............................................................................................................................ 89
A27 - Applying the SHR technique properly to remove hair.............................................................................92
A28 - How to apply the 'SHR' and 'stamping' techniques properly during hair removal - my videos ..............95
A29 - Laser-skin treatments and skin cooling – should we do this?.................................................................96
A30 - Why can’t we treat blonde and grey hair using light?..........................................................................101
A31 - A brief description of laser/IPL hair removal - in 13 comments............................................................102
A32 - How much hair is removed after each laser/IPL treatment?................................................................104
A33 - Laser/IPL hair removal. How long should we leave between treatments? It's definitely NOT six weeks... ....................................................................................................................................................................... 106
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