Having done tens of thousands of laser hair removal treatments, and used four different hair reduction devices, we believe as an organization that the Lumenis Lightsheer is the gold standard for hair removal for most skin types between fair (skin type I) through medium (skin type IV). However, for darker skin types there are also many long pulsed YAG lasers (1064nm wavelength) that work very well and will have less incidences of side effects than the Lightsheer or those lasers with shorter wavelengths (Alexandrite laser).

While we use the Lumenis Lightsheer laser for hair removal most often in our practice, we also believe that another very effective hair removal laser is the Alexandrite.  We do not believe in IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) treatments for permanent hair loss because we do not believe that the technology offers high enough energies and short enough pulses to achieve permanent hair removal – at least at the same level as a diode, alexandrite or long pulsed yag laser.  Please visit the Celibre Los Angeles laser hair removal pages to learn more about our hair removal procedures.  http://www.celibre.com/hairremoval.aspx.   Go to www.celibre.com/ba.aspx for laser hair removal before and after pictures of actual Celibre patients.