Visible facial hair on a woman can be particularly embarrassing.   Thick, coarse facial hair can lead to a loss of confidence and create a severe self-esteem problem for some women. Treating facial hair by shaving, waxing, electrolysis, (whether its eye brows, forehead, cheeks, upper lip, chin or nose, or the whole face) is not without many potential problems.  Shaving, waxing and depilatories can be a lifetime chore that can be very time consuming and  often are accompanied by side effects of skin irritations that can range from mild to severe and can last days or weeks.  These skin irritations can can be mildly irritating to very painful.  They can include redness, scaliness, bumps (small or large), cuts, nicks, scars, ingrown hairs and folliculitus. Waxing and shaving often create painful and unsightly ingrowns. Treating the face with electrolysis can be extremely time consuming and painful. Many women report that the burden of their daily struggle of dealing with their facial hair can "take over their life". 

The removal of facial hair by fast, gentle laser hair removal is much less expensive over time than these other conventional treatments. Two of the most frequent areas to be treated for women by laser hair removal therapy are the upper lip and chin. Many women who feel burdened by excessive or dark and coarse facial hair often remark of a huge return of self confidence, happiness and self-esteem after the completion of their laser hair removal treatments.