Laser Hair Removal and Fair Hair

You’ve got fair hair and you want laser hair removal treatment? Not so long ago, laser clinics would have turned you away. Until recently, blonde, grey, white and red hair were impossible to treat with laser hair removal. Now many clinics are able to succesfully treat fair hair.

How is this possible? The key to this improvement in laser hair removal treatment is a remarkable product called Meladine™.

Meladine

Laser hair removal works by selectively heating and damaging the hair follicles. The laser light passes through the skin and is absorbed by the dark pigment melanin which is present in the hair follicles. Unfortunately, fair hair has little or no melanin to absorb the energy from the laser and so isn’t affected.

Meladine solves this problem. When sprayed on the desired area, Meladine™ deposits natural melanin directly into the hair follicle. The clever bit is that Meledine’s™ patented delivey system only deposits the melanin in the hair follicle - none is absorbed by the hair shaft or the skin.

This is important because the area has to be treated for up to 6 weeks before each laser treatment. The hair above the surface of the skin will not be darkened, the only darkening will occur under the skin within the hair follicle itself . The last thing you would want is to make the offending hair more visble!

Similarly, there is no darkening or staining of the skin, so no problems there with either appearance or increasing the risk of the laser burning the skin.

The Meladine is applied by spray every morning and night, and works best if the area has been shaved. Coarse hair will need treating for 4-6 weeks, while fine, vellus hair will only need treating for 2 weeks prior to the treatment. Your clinic will advise you on how to apply it and how long you need to do it for.

Most laser hair removal clinics should now be able to offer this - in fact if they don’t, it’s probably only because they haven’t heard of it yet.

So don’t let your hair colour hold you back - now there is nothing to stop you getting laser hair removal.