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The reasoning behind my ‘Fluence App’ for hair removal

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Understanding Your Fluence Recommendations A guide to what the ‘Fluence Range Recommender’ App is doing, and why In short… The app is built on real physics and biology, not guesswork – based on three of my computer models which I have worked on over the last 20+ years. It works out how much light energy… Continue reading The reasoning behind my ‘Fluence App’ for hair removal

What is the ‘best’ time interval between laser/IPL hair removal sessions?

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I am asked this question all the time!! It’s tricky to answer because it’s not at all obvious. The short answer is: the interval should track telogen duration, not anagen duration. Anagen tells you what you can kill today; telogen tells you how fast the next treatable cohort arrives. See what I mean?!?! The Merhag… Continue reading What is the ‘best’ time interval between laser/IPL hair removal sessions?

The basics of laser/IPL hair removal – have you been taught properly?

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It’s very clear to me that this subject is quite badly taught out there. Many of my clients tell me stories of what they’ve been taught, which are just clearly absurd or ridiculous. Things like ‘increasing the fluence’ with each treatment session. Or ‘matching the pulse width with the size of the hair’ – these… Continue reading The basics of laser/IPL hair removal – have you been taught properly?

Synchronised hair growth vs paradoxical hypertrichosis

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These days, we see many claims of ‘paradoxical hypertrichosis’. Most of the time, these claims are inaccurate – they are not seeing this at all. So, what do these terms actually mean? Let’s define these two terms… Paradoxical hypertrichosis PH (I can’t be bothered writing this out all the time!) occurs when hairs are observed… Continue reading Synchronised hair growth vs paradoxical hypertrichosis