Gone are the days when the only option for smooth and hair-free legs and underarms was to use a disposable razor meant for men’s faces, and now, thankfully, there are myriad methods of hair removal.
So, to help you choose the right hair removal method for you, continue reading to learn of the four most popular and their differing benefits.
1. Waxing
First and foremost, as an alternative to shaving, which is the popular choice for men and women to remove facial and body hair, waxing takes the number one most common spot.
Waxing works, in essence, by either at home, or else visiting a beautician, the application of cold or hot wax directly to the skin and in the direction of the natural hair growth. As the wax is removed, the hair comes along with it, and the area can stay hair-free for at least a couple of weeks.
It would be pertinent to point out that waxing, depending on the individual, can be particularly painful and often leaves the skin red and slightly swollen for hours afterward.
2. Laser Hair Removal
Next, laser hair removal uses focused and concentrated intense beams of light to destroy the hair follicles just beneath the skin. In some cases, to the delight of many, the hair may either take several years to grow again or never return.
When you book your initial consultation for laser hair removal in Miami, FL, you will be asked to fill out a questionnaire to ascertain whether or not you have any sensitivity to your skin. Still, by and large, laser hair removal is suitable for anyone.
3. Depilatory Cream
If you are looking for a more relaxed and less drastic way of keeping unwanted hair at bay, then you could look into depilatory creams.
Such lotions are best applied to the underarms, the upper lip, and the bikini area, rather than larger expanses of skin such as your legs and thighs, and holds the joint benefit of being both inexpensive and painless.
For those who are beginners to the world of hair removal cream, however, they can often seem messy and more than a little difficult to apply, and for some people, the cream can react badly and cause an allergic reaction on their skin.
4. Threading
Threading, the fourth most popular alternative to shaving, is only for smaller areas of the body, namely the upper lip and the eyebrows.
Basically, threading works by taking exceedingly fine lengths of pure cotton thread and twining it around the follicle of each hair so that when the thread is pulled tight and removed, the hair comes out with the cotton.
As threading concentrates on the follicle, rather than just the hair on the surface, your hair in both areas will take much longer to grow back than with other hair removal methods (bar laser hair removal), but threading does take a lot of time from start to finish.
