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Say goodbye to shaving, waxing and unwanted stubble. Imagen’s advanced laser hair removal treatments offer a long-term solution for smooth, touchable skin—with precision and comfort you can trust.
Performed by skilled specialists, our treatments target hair at the root across areas like the underarms, face, legs, bikini line, and more. The result? Smooth, maintenance-free skin for both men and women—on your terms.
At Imagen, we use the FDA-approved CoolGlide Vantage laser, a cutting-edge technology designed to safely and effectively treat all skin tones including higher pigment skin. This powerful laser features a large treatment spot size, allowing faster sessions and optimal penetration to reach hair follicles at all depths for lasting results.
With the CoolGlide Laser, you can confidently achieve smooth, soft, and hair-free skin no matter your skin type.
We understand that choosing cosmetic enhancement is a personal decision. Our team at Imagen provides confidential, no-pressure consultations where your questions and concerns come first. Let our experienced surgeons help you explore possibilities with care and precision.
Imagen offers a safe, FDA-approved laser hair removal treatment for all skin types (including high pigment skin) using the CoolGlide Vantage laser. The CoolGlide Laser Hair Removal Treatment enables us to offer you the safest and most technologically advanced treatments for laser hair removal available today. This laser has a large treatment spot size for fast and optimal penetration at all follicle depths. It’s true! Now, anyone can achieve smooth, soft and hair free skin at Imagen!
With a longer wavelength and an impressive cooling system, the CoolGlide permits extreme efficiency with safe and lasting results for all skin types. Laser hair removal works by supplying light energy to hair follicles and the capillaries at their base, selectively damaging the follicles and reducing hair production.
There are other treatment options for laser hair reduction, but caution must be used with things like Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) as complications are common in skin with more melanin.
The laser hand-piece cools and soothes as it slides along your skin in the treatment area. When the pulsed beam of light is applied, some patients experience a mild pinching or stinging sensation. No local anesthesia or pain medication is required. We typically numb the skin with ice before treatment begins, which helps to reduce discomfort during the treatment.
Because the laser focuses on pigments, the ideal candidate for hair reduction treatment is a patient with light skin tone and dark hair. The obvious difference between skin tone and hair color make it easy to treat the dark pigments without affecting the light skin. If you have darker skin types, that doesn’t mean you’re not a good candidate, it just means that it may take more treatments to achieve your desired result. Patients with very light hair or white/grey hair will likely not see much benefit from laser hair removal.
Although patients encounter few side effects, one of the most commonly noticed are small reddening and local swelling of the skin, just like a sunburn. These effects usually only last for a few hours or less.
Most areas call for 5-8 treatments. However, the number of treatments needed for ideal long-term benefits relies on several factors – hair thickness, the treatment area and your hair growth cycle. Interestingly, not all hairs are actively growing simultaneously and actually undergo three distinct phases: growth, regression, and resting. Therapies work by disabling the hair that is primarily in the active growth phase during the time of treatment. Since hairs will enter this active growth phase at varied times, additional treatments are necessary to disable all the hair follicles in a given area. While laser hair removal treatments are long lasting, you will not likely have permanent results. Many of our hair reduction patients return for a “touch up” treatment once a year.
Laser hair removal really has very little recovery time. Promptly following your session, the treated area may appear a bit red and swollen. Three to seven days after the treatment you may encounter what seems to be regrowth of the body hair. In fact, most of these hairs are being shed as a result of your treatment and are not new hair growth. Between treatments you should not wax or pluck your hair, but it is acceptable to shave.
Yes! Hyperpigmentation in the areas of frequent shaving or waxing, especially in patients with melanated skin, is very common. There are several different treatment options for this concern, including topical bleaching creams, chemical peels and laser skin resurfacing.
