Peering out the window, you realize it’s the perfect beach weather. Almost involuntarily, your mind starts plotting your beach day course. Your mind races with thoughts on where to go, what to prepare, and whom to bring. Cutera Excel® HR.
What to wear? Oh, you have that steamy purple string bikini awaiting its first airing. You try it on, and it’s perfect! Unfortunately, you realize your legs look a little too woolly. That’s it — beach day plans shelved.
Next time, don’t let fuzz get in the way of glorious beach adventures. With Cutera Excel HR laser hair removal, you can be beach-ready anytime.
What is Cutera Excel® HR?
The excel® HR treatment is the advanced laser hair removal technology by Cutera, a leading manufacturer of medical aesthetics devices. It is a hair removal solution that works for men and women of all skin types, even those with tanned skin. You can use it to eliminate unwanted hair from the underarms, bikini area, legs, chest, and back.
How Does Laser Hair Removal Work?
Melanin is a natural skin pigment, and it is normally present in the skin, hair, and eyes. It exists to protect the skin from the harmful rays of the sun. To do that, it absorbs light and converts it to thermal energy.
Laser hair removal takes advantage of this natural melanin function. In laser hair removal procedures, a laser device emits a concentrated beam of light that the melanin in the hair absorbs and subsequently converts to heat.
The heat damages the hair follicles, the bulb-like sacs that anchor the hair to the skin and are responsible for hair growth. The damage to the hair follicles inhibits or checks future hair growth.
Why Should You Consider Excel® HR Laser Hair Removal?
Laser hair removal is efficient, economical, and earth-friendly, especially compared to the default hair removal solution: shaving. This is according to data from the American Laser Centers’ 2008 Zoomerang Hair Removal Survey.
1. Save Time
Shaving takes an average of 130.8 minutes per month. Without a more permanent solution, you will need to spend this amount of time on shaving, month in, month out, forever.
In contrast, excel® HR takes only 30 minutes per session. Even better, you only need to have one treatment every other month for approximately eight months.
2. Save Money
The cumulative cost of shaving supplies, on average, is USD 10,207. Meanwhile, the average price of an excel® HR laser hair removal package is USD 2,000.
Naturally, the amount you need to spend on laser hair removal will vary depending on the required coverage. A wider area will mean a higher package cost.
3. Save Water
On the one hand, shaving can use up to 7,848 gallons of water every year. On the other hand, excel® HR does not use any water.
What Makes Excel® HR Better Than Other Laser Hair Removal Solutions?
Three things make excel® HR stand out from other laser hair removal solutions: fewer treatments, outstanding patient comfort, and optimal results.
1. Require Fewer Treatments
Generally, you will need four or five excel® HR laser sessions, with sessions spread six to eight weeks apart, for effective hair removal. Of course, you will need more sessions if you’re treating a larger area.
Cutera’s excel® HR provides desirable results in fewer sessions because of its proprietary truPulse™, Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd: YAG) technology. With truPulse™, every laser pulse delivers consistent and sustained energy, improving the effectiveness of every treatment and thus efficiently reducing the number of sessions required.
2. Experience Superior Comfort
Laser treatments can cause a slight stinging sensation, and that’s normal. However, excel® HR has sapphire contact cooling. Effectively, the contact cooling mechanism cools the skin before, during, and after every laser pulse. This significantly improves patient comfort during laser hair removal treatment.
3. Effectively Remove Unwanted Hair
Cutera excel® HR uses true laser light sources instead of low-powered pulsed light alternatives. This significantly increases its effectiveness.
Why Do You Need Multiple Laser Hair Removal Sessions?
Like other laser hair removal solutions, excel® HR needs time and multiple sessions to work. To understand why multiple treatments are required, you must first review how laser hair removal works.
In laser hair removal, the laser source pulses a concentrated beam of light on a particular area, and the melanin in the hair absorbs that light and turns it into heat. The heat damages the hair follicles, so it doesn’t grow more hair.
A single laser hair removal treatment would do it if hair did not grow in phases. Unfortunately, however, the hairs on an area can be in three different stages, and melanin content in these stages varies. Remember that melanin is essential for laser hair removal to work.
Anagen is the First Growth Phase–
This stage takes from six to 12 weeks, and at this phase of growth, the hair has plenty of melanin. This is why laser hair removal works best on hair in the anagen stage of development.
Catagen is the Second Phase–
At this stage, which lasts two to three weeks, the hair stops growing, and the lower part of the hair follicle starts regressing or shortening.
Telogen is the Third Phase–
During this rest period, the old hair is released as the hair follicle prepares for new hair growth. At this point, the hair follicle contains very little melanin (or none at all).
At any given time, around 14% of the hair on your scalp is in the telogen stage. If about the same percentage of hair in other areas is in the telogen stage, you will naturally need multiple laser hair treatments.
Every session will work only on hair in anagen because it has abundant melanin levels. However, laser hair removal does not affect hair in telogen because hair has very little or no melanin at this stage.
Thus, at every session, a particular percentage of hair will be in other stages and will remain unaffected by the treatment. The solution is to undergo multiple treatments in carefully spaced intervals. This should take care of all new hair growths eventually.
Try Excel® HR For Long-Lasting Hair Removal
Always be ready for a trip to your favorite white sand beach with Cutera excel® HR. It is an effective, time-saving, economical, and sustainable laser hair removal solution that offers superior in-treatment comfort and delivers long-lasting results in as few as four sessions.