Is dermaplaning right for you" Image: @stackedskincare
We’ll let you in on a little secret: women have facial hair. While some have baby-fine, barely visible hairs, others have coarse, dark hair ? or any combination of the two. Yet, for some reason, women tend to consider facial hair a shameful secret while bleaching, waxing, tweezing and even shaving in private. Lately, a buzzworthy new hair removal technique called dermaplaning has women coming out of the facial hair closet and raving about their experiences with the treatment.
Dermaplaning is an alternative to a traditional razor that uses a sterile surgical scalpel to gently remove facial hair. It’s great for exfoliation because as it’s removing hair, it’s also removing dead skin cells. According to the founder of DermWarehouse, Dr. Alan J. Parks, it can even do more than that. In fact, removing peach fuzz is merely a welcome side effect. Dermaplaning was conceived as a way to “strip the outermost layer of the skin so as to improve the appearance of wrinkles, scars and improve skin tone.” Further, it helps skin care products penetrate more readily because of the aforementioned dead skin cell removal. Parks does caution that you may be red or puffy for a day or so but other than that, there’s no real downtime.
Office Versus At-Home Treatments
As you might imagine, dermaplaning at a dermatologist’s office is more effective than at-home treatments. “If you’...