Skin Rejuvenation
Laser Hair Removal
Permanent reduction, not a promise of permanent removal
Medical-grade laser hair removal on the same platforms we use for photorejuvenation — the ICON® laser in Victoria and Langley, the Sciton® in Kelowna.
Who this is for
Often right for
- Dark hair on the underarms, legs, bikini area, back and chest
- Facial hair on the lip and chin, where shaving is not an option
- Ingrown hairs and razor bumps, which usually settle as density falls
- Folliculitis and irritation from repeated waxing or shaving
- Hair driven by a hormonal cause, alongside treating the cause itself
Booking commits you to nothing
What to expect
Your Laser Hair Removal visit
Assessment and skin typing
We determine your Fitzpatrick type, look at the actual colour and coarseness of the hair, and review medication, recent sun exposure and any hormonal history that would keep new hair coming.
Shave, do not wax
Shave the area within a day of your appointment. The laser needs the follicle intact and the shaft short — waxing, plucking or threading in the preceding four weeks removes the very target we are aiming at.
Test patch, then treatment
Protective eyewear for everyone in the room, a test patch where skin tone or a first session warrants it, then passes across the area with contact cooling. Most patients describe brief hot snaps.
Shedding and the course
Treated hair pushes out over one to three weeks and can look like regrowth — it is not. We space sessions to the cycle rather than the calendar, and reassess density as we go instead of pre-selling a fixed package.
The science
Why it works
Laser hair removal works by selective photothermolysis: a wavelength absorbed by the melanin in the hair shaft carries heat down to the follicle and disables it. The energy is aimed at the pigment, which is why the treatment is so effective on dark hair and why it does nothing at all for hair that carries no pigment to find.
Only follicles in their active growth phase can be destroyed, and at any moment just a fraction of the hair on an area is in that phase. This is the whole reason for a course rather than an appointment: sessions are spaced weeks apart so each one catches a different cohort of follicles as it cycles into growth. Treating more often does not speed it up — it simply treats follicles the laser cannot yet reach.
We describe the outcome as permanent reduction rather than permanent removal, because that is what the evidence supports and what we see in clinic. Expect most of the hair gone and what remains finer and slower, with occasional maintenance sessions as hormones and time reactivate follicles. Anyone promising you will never shave again is overselling it.
At a glance
- Appointment
- 15 minutes for a lip, up to an hour for full legs
- Discomfort
- A hot elastic snap; contact cooling used throughout
- Downtime
- Redness and bumps around the follicles for a few hours
- Sessions
- Typically 6–8, spaced 4 weeks on the face and 6–8 on the body
- Results
- Treated hair sheds over 1–3 weeks; density drops across the course
- Sun
- No tanning or self-tan for 4 weeks before or after
Questions
Laser Hair Removal questions
- No, and we would rather say so before you pay for a course. The laser has to find melanin to work, and hair without pigment gives it nothing to absorb. Very fine fair hair responds poorly for the same reason. If that is the hair you want treated, electrolysis is the honest answer and we will point you there.
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Consultations for Laser Hair Removal run in Victoria, Langley and Kelowna. Booking one commits you to nothing.
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