Laser Hair Removal And Hair Types Featured Article

Human hair basically has three-stage growth cycle known to as Anagen (active growing phase), Catagen (transitional phase) and telogen (dormant phase). Also all our body hair is not at a similar stage on any given point of time, they follow different time periods of growth. Laser hair removal process acts on hair that are in active growing phase i.e. Anagen stage. This is an important reason because of which multiple treatments are necessary to remove entire hair from body. The main target is to catch maximum hair in anagen phase so that utmost reduction is achieved.

Apart from the stages of hair growth cycle hair also exhibit different types according to their physical characteristics. They may be tiny colorless hair called Vellus but more popularly known as “peach fuzz”. Another type is those having some pigmentation but yet is very thin and small known as intermediate between the two extreme types. The most dreaded of all hair types are the terminal ones which are deep rooted, coarse and have pigmentation. People usually want to get rid of this terminal hair.