Female Hair Removal: Hair On The Nipples.

Many women try to avoid mentioning hair growing on the nipples or the areolas as the idea is seen as socially unattractive and even worrisome. This can also cause stress and self image doubts.

How can You Remove Hair from The Nipples?

Hair on the areolas of the breasts is common. They can be long dark hairs that grow all around the areola. The number can vary from one or two, to ten or twenty.

The main cause of this is genetic where some families are hairier than others, and this can be reflected on the nipples.

In other cases there can be a little hormonal imbalance, or a little less of female hormones in relation to male hormones (testosterone).

This disorder may be due to various things such as: abnormal cycles, ovarian cysts, stress (via cortisol).
To identify if the cause is hormonal just do a blood test for hormone balance.

How to remove hair from the areola?

This hair is not as easy to treat as its seems to recover very quickly from ordinary hair removal techniques.

There are certain guidelines you should follow.

First the Don´ts.

Above all, do not shave there, aside from the quick regrowth you do run the risk of cutting your nipple.

Depilatory creams should be avoided. These contain chemicals that react with the hair to destroy it. Applying chemicals in such a sensitive area is not a good idea.

Waxing: Some people do, but the pulling effect on the areola is not recommended. You also run the risk of too much heat. The cold alternative should also be avoided.

Other Nipple Hair Removal Choices:

Tweezing and Plucking. Many women do, with very good results, but you should be careful to make sure the hair, with the root comes out - breaking the hair makes it stronger.

The areola of the breast is an area that has receptors for testosterone. There is a cream containing an active ingredient that blocks local testosterone, but the results are highly variable and unsatisfactory.

Even with the laser, the areolas are difficult areas to treat.

You will need more laser sessions. You begin with 3 sessions that are spaced 4 weeks apart, and then increase the time period to 2 and 3 months spreads until you reach a total of 6 to 8 sessions, but with a good result.

Why so long, for such a little amount of hair?

Hair grows in cycles, and this means that at any one time, hairs will be in different stages of the cycle. In each session there are hairs that are not affected. Hair growth cycle can be up to a year. So once you start your laser hair removal cycle, only hairs in the growth phase are affected.

As you start the treatment, hair will not be visible for the most part as the individual hairs will not have time to regrow before the next session

However, the sessions should be repeated in a year to exhaust all the bursts of hair.

Results may vary from one woman to another, depending on hair removal methods used previously, which could strengthen the hair and make it more resistant to laser.

The result is nearly permanent, unless a new hormonal upheaval causes a new hair growth

Laser hair removal applied to the nipples and areola is not very painful. Redness appears after each session, but lasts only 10 to 15 minutes.

Another word of warning.

You can now easily buy home laser hair removal kits, but you should not try them out on your areolas as this area is highly sensitive so it is definitely better to have an expert guide the session. These lasers are not powerful enough to destroy the hair bulb and may conversely enhance and stimulate hair growth!