Laser Hair Removal

As mammals, we’re all familiar with our plethora of hair. That’s right, five million and counting on the average homo sapien. Alas, some of those hairs are more coveted than others. Or at least some are more tolerated.    Take our vellus hairs. You know them as peach fuzz. They’re no big deal because they’re very […]

In April’s first springy blog we delved into the ancient history of hair removal. From Cleopatra to Brutus to Queen Elizabeth, everyone was trying to get rid of unwanted hair. Plucking, raking it off with stones, applying harsh liquids…whatever it took, they tried to remove hair from their faces and bodies. Lucky you, you’re living

OK, so we’re mammals, right in there with leopards and door mice, Irish setters and chimps. It’s just that hair doesn’t serve us in the same way it serves most of our mammal kin. We can don a coat on a cold Manhattan day; we don’t need a coat…of fur! Thankfully, you have Romeo &

When patients come see us at Romeo & Juliette for laser hair removal, they wonder why we can’t remove all of their hair permanently with a single laser treatment. We tell them, “It’s complicated.” We humans are definitely mammals — each of us having around five million hairs on our bodies. Men have a few

We perform lots of laser hair removal at Romeo & Juliette. Much of it is to get rid of hair that we’re used to always being there; it’s just not wanted any longer. Places like the underarms, the bikini line, maybe the legs. But there are other hairs that show up out of the blue

There isn’t a person out there who isn’t glad that we’re about to tear up the calendar that read 2020. Although at first the repeating numbers seemed cool, circumstances soon made the entire year one to forget. Moving on to the New Year, one of your resolutions should be to do something about that unwanted

In this month’s first blog we delved into five reasons your winter skin is so dry and itchy, and we gave you five ways to help it from becoming that way. In this second November blog, let’s get into five more to make it an even 10. Harsh bar soap You wouldn’t think so, but

Now that another beach season has come and gone (although this was the oddest beach season of our entire collective lifetimes), and you’ve shaved, waxed, applied nasty depilatory creams, and the like to keep your legs looking beach ready, you’re probably contemplating having the hair removed permanently. That’s what we’re all about at Romeo &

We’re all chasing collagen as we get older. It’s kind of like a modern-day fountain of youth whose pursuit would make Ponce de Leon proud. Walk down the skin care section of a drug store and every lotion, it seems, boasts of the collagen in its formulation. There are even pure collagen creams, and powder

Patients come see us in our 57th Street offices and often wonder why we can’t simply remove all of their hair permanently with a single laser treatment. It’s complicated. We humans are a hairy lot — each of us having around five million hairs on our bodies. Men have a few hundred thousand more than women.