Laser Hair Removal
The Glow Lab Hair Removal Course
Every skin tone gets a yes here.
What changes is the plan we build after it.
We run one laser here, the Aerolase Neo Elite, and NeoHair is the setting it uses for hair. We read your skin tone, your hair and where each follicle sits in its cycle, then map the whole course before your first pass. That’s how hair reduces and stays reduced.
Build your course
Tap the areas you want handled
Pick as many as you like. Your one visit total and your course of 6 move as you go, so you see the number before you ever phone us.
Face and neck
Arms, chest and back
Bikini and legs
Your course
Nothing picked yet
Tap an area above and the numbers on the right fill in. Pick a few and we’ll add them up the way we’d quote them at your consult. Combined zones get priced as a combination, so your consult can bring this down again.
One visit on your areas: nothing picked yet.
Book Your Laser ConsultCourse of 6
$0
6 sessions, 4 to 6 weeks apart, about 9 months end to end.
Prices are in CAD before 5% GST. Your consult and patch test confirm every area before we book the course.
If this sounds familiar
Why the last course of laser left you shaving
You paid for a course of 6 sessions. You showed up for all of them. And you still keep a razor in the shower, which is the one outcome nobody warned you about.
Somewhere in there you got a version of the same speech. Your skin tone sat outside what their laser handles, so they turned you away or ran it on a lower setting. Or they told you to stay out of the sun 6 weeks ahead of every visit, which in this province costs you the whole summer. Or they sold you numbing cream and 30 minutes of waiting to make the session bearable.
So you went back to managing it. Waxing on a 6 week loop, shaving before anything sleeveless, plucking in the car mirror at a red light. It works, in the sense that anything you do again in 9 days works.
You tried waxing, and traded the hair for ingrown hairs.
You tried the clinic that put you on a lower setting because of your skin tone.
You tried a course somewhere with no record of which follicles were even awake that day.
Every one of those manages hair. None of them reduce it.
Hormonal hair gets denser through your thirties and forties, and the coarse hairs that arrive with PCOS, pregnancy or perimenopause respond best while they’re still growing. Waiting a year means paying for the same course later with more follicles in it.
The mechanism
Hair grows in cycles. So does the plan.
A laser can reach a follicle that’s growing right now and nothing else. Your follicles run on different clocks, which is the whole reason one session can’t finish the job and the reason spacing matters more than power.
A follicle in its growth phase carries enough pigment for the laser to find it. Everything resting or shedding that week sits out of reach, whatever setting we run.
At any given moment a share of your follicles is awake and the rest are not. That share is what one session can treat, and no amount of energy changes it.
This is the reason a single session, anywhere, on any device, cannot finish an area.
6 sessions spaced 4 to 6 weeks apart, so a different share of your follicles is awake each time. Stack them across that window and the course catches close to all of them.
Most clients watch the shaving gap stretch from days to weeks by session 3, and reach 80 to 90 percent reduction by session 6. Come back at 2 weeks and you pay for a session that finds almost nothing awake. Come back at 4 months and a whole cohort cycled through untouched.
We book the next one before you leave, because the spacing is doing half the work.
The clinical term is permanent reduction. Most areas hold on their own once the course is finished. Hormonal zones keep recruiting new follicles, so chin, lip and jaw work wants a top up session every 6 to 12 months to stay where you left it.
A maintenance session is a single visit at the area price, booked when you notice the regrowth rather than on a schedule.
Underarms, legs and bikini hold longest. Face and chin want the top up.
Here’s what makes that possible on every skin tone. NeoHair fires at 1064nm, a wavelength that travels past the pigment sitting in your epidermis and finds the follicle underneath. Each pulse lasts 650 microseconds, shorter than the time your skin needs to move heat outward, so the follicle absorbs the energy and the tissue around it never gets warm enough to react. That’s why there’s no gel, nothing chilled pressing on your skin, and no reason to run a Fitzpatrick V at different settings than a Fitzpatrick II.
How we run laser hair removal
6 rules we don’t bend
These sit between a course that finishes and a course that leaves you back in the razor aisle.
We never dial the laser down for your skin tone.
Diode and alexandrite systems hunt the pigment in your skin to find the hair, so deeper tones get turned away or treated at settings too low to work. NeoHair is FDA cleared across Fitzpatrick I through VI at full protocol. Same treatment, same energy, whoever’s in the chair.
Nothing touches your skin, and nothing numbs it.
No gel, no chilled contact tip, no topical numbing and no 30 minutes of waiting for it to work. The 650 microsecond pulse is over before your skin reads it as heat, so the cooling other systems need never comes into it. Most clients put the sensation at 2 to 4 out of 10 and hold a conversation the whole way through.
Summer is not a reason to wait.
A tan doesn’t change your settings or your safety here, because the laser passes your surface pigment rather than reading it. Book in July if July is when you have time. We’ll say the same thing in January.
Every new client gets a patch test.
A small test spot runs before your first full treatment, always, so we confirm how your skin responds before we commit an area to a course. It costs you a few minutes and it’s the reason nobody here is guessing.
4 to 6 weeks apart, and we hold the spacing.
6 sessions at that spacing is the course. It runs about 9 months end to end, and we book each next visit before you walk out so the calendar never drifts.
You shave between sessions. You never wax.
Shave the day before or the day of. Skip waxing, plucking, threading and epilating for 4 weeks beforehand, because all 4 pull out the follicle the laser needs to find. This is the rule people break and then blame the laser for.
The course
3 area sizes, 3 ways to pay
Every treatable area sorts into Small, Medium or Large by how long it takes to treat. That’s the whole price logic. Nothing is billed per pulse.
Small area · course of 6
Small Area Course
A small zone, paid once
6 sessions on one small zone, spaced 4 to 6 weeks apart, priced as a course and paid once. Quick enough to sit inside a lunch break.
Best for
Upper lip, chin, sideburns, jawline, underarms, bikini line, navel line, areola, toes, fingers and hands.
$64 a treatment. You save $89 against $474 paid one visit at a time.
Medium area · course of 6
Medium Area Course
A mid sized zone
6 sessions on a mid sized zone. The same protocol and the same spacing across more surface, which is the one thing that changes the price.
Best for
Brazilian, full arms, half legs, chest, stomach, upper or lower back, buttocks, full neck and full face.
$132 a treatment. You save $158 against $948 paid one visit at a time.
Large area · course of 6
Large Area Course
Block an hour, walk out done
6 sessions across a full limb, a full back or a combined zone. One appointment instead of chasing 4 separate small ones.
Best for
Full legs, full back, chest and stomach together, full arms with underarms, half legs with bikini.
$263 a treatment. You save $316 against $1,896 paid one visit at a time.
One visit · no commitment
Single Visit
Try the laser before you commit
One session on one area, paid at the visit. Small runs $79, medium $158, large $316. Useful as a trial and useful as your maintenance top up once a course is finished.
Best for
A first look at the sensation, or a maintenance session every 6 to 12 months on hormonal areas.
Credited toward a course of 6 within 90 days, so a trial visit costs you nothing extra if you carry on.
No surprises
One area, priced both ways
Picked a single zone above and want the arithmetic on its own? Choose it here and switch between paying per visit and paying for the course.
Your course of 6
Save $158
$948
$790
$132 a treatment. 6 sessions, 4 to 6 weeks apart, about 9 months end to end.
Prices are in CAD before 5% GST. A single trial visit is credited toward your course within 90 days. Book several areas in one appointment and we price them as a combination, which lands under the sum of the parts. Your consult confirms every size before anything gets charged.
From Glow Lab clients
What it’s like in the room
“I have very sensitive skin and the ‘pain level’ was minimal and there is virtually no down time.”Pat Orr
“Takes the time to listen to your concerns and formulate a plan that actually works for you and your skin.”Taylor Perdue
“I’ve seen multiple providers for facials and laser treatments, and none compare to her expertise and care.”Shayla Smith
Honest fit
Who this course is built for
Book the consult if
- A clinic turned you away, or ran you at a lower setting, because of your skin tone
- You’ve finished a course elsewhere and you’re still shaving
- Hormonal hair on your chin, lip or jaw arrived with PCOS, pregnancy or perimenopause
- Waxing keeps leaving you with ingrown hairs and the razor keeps leaving you with irritation
- You want this handled in the months you have time, summer included
Wait, or bring us a note first
- You’re pregnant. We’ll book you after, and we’ll hold your consult notes until then
- You’ve taken isotretinoin in the last 6 months, or you’re on gold therapy or a photosensitizing medication
- There’s an active cold sore or herpes outbreak in the area you want treated
- You waxed, plucked, threaded or epilated the area in the last 4 weeks. Grow it back, shave it, then come in
- The hair is light blond or all grey. Every laser needs pigment in the follicle to find it, and we’d rather tell you that now than after 6 sessions
Before you book
The questions we get most
Is it safe on deeper skin tones, for real?
Yes, and we don’t change the protocol to make it so. NeoHair runs at 1064nm, which passes the melanin in your epidermis without interacting with it and finds the follicle underneath. It’s FDA cleared on Fitzpatrick I through VI. There’s no lower tier of treatment for deeper tones here, and your patch test confirms it on your skin before we start the course. If you want the full technical case, we wrote it out on its own page.
How much does it hurt, and do I need numbing cream?
Most clients land at 2 to 4 out of 10 and describe it as a warm tap. No numbing cream, no gel, and nothing chilled pressing on you. The 650 microsecond pulse is over before your skin registers it as heat, which is the reason older systems needed contact cooling and this one doesn’t. Pat Orr, who has sensitive skin, put the pain level at minimal with virtually no downtime.
How many sessions will I need?
6, spaced 4 to 6 weeks apart, is the course. Most clients notice real reduction by session 3 and reach 80 to 90 percent reduction by session 6. Your hair cycle sets that number rather than your effort, which is why we book the whole sequence at your consult and hold the spacing.
Is it permanent, and what happens after the 6?
The clinical term is permanent reduction. After the course you keep 80 to 90 percent of the reduction on most areas with nothing further. Hormonal zones on the chin, lip and jaw keep recruiting new follicles, so those want a top up session every 6 to 12 months. A top up is one visit at the area price, booked when you need it.
I’ve done a course before and it didn’t work. Why would this be different?
Almost every version of that story traces to one of 3 things. The wavelength was wrong for your skin or your hair. The spacing was wrong, so half your follicles cycled through untreated. Or the settings were dialed down to compensate for your skin tone. Bring what you remember about the last course to your consult, including how far apart the visits were, and we’ll tell you which one it was.
Can I get treated in summer, or if I’m tanned?
Yes. A tan sits in your epidermis, and this wavelength travels through it without stopping, so your settings and your safety don’t change. Most Langley clinics ask for 4 to 6 weeks of sun avoidance before every visit. We don’t, and that alone tends to be what shortens a course from 18 months to 9.
What do I do before and after a session?
Shave the area the day before or the day of. Stay off waxing, plucking, threading and epilating for 4 weeks beforehand. Afterwards you go back to work, put makeup on, and skip hot tubs and long direct sun for 24 hours. That’s the whole aftercare list. Our pre and post care page has the full version.
Which areas can you treat, and how do I know what size mine is?
Areas sort into Small, Medium and Large by treatment time. Small runs about 15 minutes, medium about 25, large about 45. The picker at the top of this page has every area we treat with its size marked, and your consult confirms it. We treat several areas in one visit often, and combined zones get priced as a combination rather than as separate bookings, which brings the total under what the picker shows.
Can I run this alongside my other treatments?
Laser hair removal sits well beside HydraFacial, dermaplaning and a skin pass on the same laser in the same visit. What we space apart is active microneedling, retinol and a recent peel on the same patch of skin. Tell us everything you’re running at your consult and we’ll build the calendar around it.
Start the course
9 months from now you’re either finished or you’re still buying razors
6 sessions at 4 to 6 week spacing runs about 9 months end to end. Book your consult this month and your last session lands well inside next year. Wait until spring and you start the same course with a year of new hormonal growth added to it.
P.S. If somebody told you your skin was too dark for laser, that was a fact about their equipment. Bring us the same skin and we’ll run the patch test, show you what it does, and put the number in front of you before you decide anything.
Laser hair removal in Willoughby, Langley
The Glow Lab is a plan-based skin clinic in Willoughby, Langley BC. Laser hair removal on the Aerolase in NeoHair sits inside the Correct and Maintain phases of The Glow Lab Method, our 4-phase system of stabilize, correct, refine and maintain, alongside the skin work we run on that same laser, Dermapen 4 microneedling, HydraFacial and The Glow Lab Peel Series.
We see clients from Langley, Walnut Grove, Willowbrook, Cloverdale, Surrey and South Abbotsford for underarms, bikini and Brazilian, full legs, back and chest, and for hormonal facial hair on the lip, chin and jaw. Because NeoHair uses a 1064nm Nd:YAG wavelength, we treat Fitzpatrick I through VI at full protocol, including deeper skin tones and tanned skin that diode and alexandrite systems turn away.
Still deciding? Build your areas in the picker at the top of this page, read why the wavelength matters, or book a consult and we’ll map the course with you.
