National beauty magazine zaps laser hair removal
An article titled "Light-Saber Skin Savers" in the February 1999 magazine Glamour, should go a long way towards educating the public on the truth about laser hair removal. "Should you get zapped?" the magazine asks. Glamour reports on the new laser-beam beauty and body blasters, and spells out exactly whom you can trust when it comes to these treatments.
Removers of moles, tattoos, wrinkles, stretch marks, superfluous hairs, facials and mini peels are everywhere. Everyone's pushing them and they're state-of-the-art, so lasers must be your best beauty weapon, right? Not necessarily, the magazine tells its 2.2 million readers.
Glamour's editors note that every time you walk into a dermatologist's office, the doctor wants to whip out her latest toy the laser. Roy Geronemus, M.D. director of the Laser and Skin Surgery Center of New York and clinical associate professor of dermatology at New York University, is quoted as saying "There's a huge list of things that can be done with lasers, but they're also being overused and abused, and some salons and even some doctors are making claims that can't be backed up yet."
When it comes to uncovering the truth about laser hair removal Glamour excels itself. No electrologist could have said it better: "Upside: It's a faster route to the temporarily hairless look . . . Downside: It's not permanent no matter what anyone tells you. Most lasered hair returns in three to six months making it a little pricey for the payoff."
The magazine suggests that readers think twice before letting anyone other than a dermatologist or plastic surgeon do this. They explain that it's perfectly legal in most American states for a nurse, physician's assistant, or even an esthetician who has attended a weekend seminar to use lower-powered lasers . . . but strongly suggest that the person who allow themselves to be zapped, do so only when the procedure is supervised by an on-site medical professional (preferably a doctor, not an RN) who checks in during the treatment and that your medical history is taken and reviewed by a doctor or nurse.
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