When It Comes To Hair Removal For Men Only – Part 1

Removing Hair On The Body

Growing out of control is your body hair creating problems? Discussing the best solutions for men are hair removal experts. 

Strictly a female thing, it used to be when it came to be hair removal.

Chances are your body hair remained untouched unless you were a bodybuilder, cyclist, swimmer, or male exotic dancer. 

It is not so anymore. Here we find that smooth body skin, as experts report that more and more men are opting for the same grooming rights as women. 

Dermatologist David Goldberg, MD, regularly performing those laser hair removal on men says that on their back and chest, for example, most men don’t necessarily want it all removed whereas increasingly they do want it tinned out. 

Making up a good portion of her clientele, hair waxing specialist Michelle Serniuk says are men seeking hair removal. 

Serniuk, a waxing specialist at Beyond Day Spa at the Hackensack University Medical Centre, thereby explains, many men are wanting to wax on their eyebrows as they need to take away that unibrow look along with a shaping plus cleaning up the area around their ears or the back of the neck. 

Various media reports suggest that many men are therefore opting for that long-time staple of female grooming which is the bikini wax at the same time. 

As Serniuk explains, requesting this are many men we have. 

Men often find themselves at a loss for how to deal with excess body hair, unlike women for whom hair removal is second nature by junior high school. 

Here’s the lowdown on the most common hair removal options available today for those men. 

Hair Removal Option No. 1: Laser Hair Removal Treatments

What It Does: 

It actually kills the hair root using laser light energy to penetrate the hair shaft. The place where hair growth starts, this doesn’t kill the follicle.

Whereas it is difficult as technically another hair can grow in its place. Lasting a fairly long time, it means results of laser hair removal. 

How Long It Takes: 

It is needed up to eight treatments with roughly 30 minutes per treatment. 

Best For: 

On the back, chest, stomach, shoulders, and genital area, this means removing or reducing hair. Not suitable for blonde or white hair, it works best on light skin with dark hair. It is here that one type of laser, the Nd: YAG, in which the black skin responds well. 

Cost:

Per treatment $400-500

Lasting Result: 

Results could be almost permanent with touch-up treatments annually or biannually to maintain results after all laser hair removal treatments are completed. 

Expert Comments:

As Goldberg explains, something which lasers can easily accomplish, most men utilise laser hair removal for the back, upper arms, and chest as most want it thinned out and not removed. Laser hair removal is the only hair removal treatment that allows for thinning, rather than complete removal in fact other than electrolysis. As Goldberg then says as men age, more hair grows especially on their backs while the average man needs five to seven sessions. Try those touch-up laser hair removal treatments coming to be usually needing on an average once a year as such. 

Hair Removal Option No. 2: Waxing

What It Does: 

Sticky, gooey, honey-based waxes of the past are gone. A creamy lotion that is applied to the skin but adheres only to the hair is in their place are soy waxes. Layered over the cream are strips of specially prepared cloth. The clothes are removed like pulling off a bandage when the mixture dries in just a few minutes and poof! The hair disappears completely. 

How Long It Takes: 

Depending on what’s being waxed, anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour or more. 

Best For: 

Areas that include eyebrow shaping, unibrow, hair in ears, as well as neck, legs, underarms as also the arms. It is painful even if waxing can easily be done in the genital areas as it might be tried on other parts of the body first so that you know what you are going for. 

Cost: 

Depending on what you need to be done, from $10 to $70. 

Lasting Result: 

For about four to six weeks.

Expert Comments: 

We find the fact that Serniuk says to be it’s important to check with the salon first if you are looking for a full-body waxing where some do and some don’t in case you never had a waxing before, its best to have it done professionally. It’s important to follow advice on aftercare which should include the use of an antibacterial skin lotion for several says thereby she says since waxing can lead to skin infections. Having better results from the laser treatments, interestingly one study showed are men who had areas of their back waxed before undergoing laser treatment. 

What Are The Other Options? 

In the next part, we highlight other options. Read along for more insight into the matter.