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White Hair On Beard, Face, Loss Of Confidence, Discomfort. Cure For White Hair?

I have 90% white hairs on my beard. I want to remove those and stop them growing I am 32 yrs old. I have more white beard on my face and makes me depressed. Going to get married within 2-3 month. Feeling so much uncomfortable on this white beard & i loss comfident & fill depressed. I want to solution pls help me...and given right suggestion or treatment procedure.
Fri, 14 Dec 2012
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Hello,
If you are considering hair removal by laser, then I must inform you that it typically requires pigmented hair as the laser beam targets the pigments and is only then able to kill the hair by destroying the follicles. White hair is not pigmented and is therefore resistant to the effect of laser as it would not absorb the laser beam. The rate of transformation of pigmented hair to white hair is also not possible to predict, and this process cannot be stopped by any means in the present day! The only management you can opt for is electrolysis of the white hair but I must warn you that the rate of removal with this method can be very slow.
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White Hair On Beard, Face, Loss Of Confidence, Discomfort. Cure For White Hair?

Hello, If you are considering hair removal by laser, then I must inform you that it typically requires pigmented hair as the laser beam targets the pigments and is only then able to kill the hair by destroying the follicles. White hair is not pigmented and is therefore resistant to the effect of laser as it would not absorb the laser beam. The rate of transformation of pigmented hair to white hair is also not possible to predict, and this process cannot be stopped by any means in the present day! The only management you can opt for is electrolysis of the white hair but I must warn you that the rate of removal with this method can be very slow.