Yellow Brows After Laser Removal • PMU Nightmares

Okay, so first let's talk about why your eyebrows turn yellow and why the laser can't remove the yellow.

OK, the eyebrows turn yellow.

They're actually not turning yellow.

What's happening is we're lasering the pigment that we see.

So when you first come in, you're going to have a dark pigment, most likely like a dark brown.

Sometimes clients even come in and it looks sort of black.

And what we do is we target that pigment, whichever pigment we see.

So we use a certain wavelength that targets dark pigment, which is the 1064 wavelength.

We target that pigment and it usually lifts right away.

Within one or two sessions, most of the dark is usually gone.

But what happens is when that pigment is lifted, it reveals what's underneath.

So underneath of the dark is usually some sort of red, some sort of yellow, and maybe some white that's mixed in there.

We're able to remove the dark most of the time with no problem whatsoever.

and then we're stuck with an undertone whether the undertone is red yellow white we will target that in the very next session we space the sessions out a couple months apart and we'll target the undertone so if it's a red most of the time the red lifts right away it's a pretty easy color to remove with the peak away using the 532 wavelength but what happens when the red is removed A lot of times people look in the mirror right away and they're like, oh wow, it's gone.

All the pigment's gone.

But most of the time when the red is lifted, the brows are a little bit irritated from the laser itself and the skin is red.

And when the skin becomes red and irritated, it will usually mask whatever is underneath there.

Like a yellow is very easy to mask with a little bit of skin irritation.

So you walk out of here, you think everything is great, and when the irritation subsides, that's when you start realizing that there's yellow, a yellow undertone.

And when that yellow is present, it's very hard to cover up with makeup, from what I hear, and people just don't like the look of yellow.

It's very bright, it catches your eye, especially in certain types of light, like sunlight or in the bathroom, you'll really see that yellow.

And unfortunately, although the manufacturers of all lasers say that the 532 wavelength will target sunset colors, which includes reds, orange, peach and yellow, we find that most yellows are resistant to the laser and what ends up happening is if you try to treat the yellow too aggressively it will actually oxidize and turn dark so we never try to approach yellow aggressively we always try to just break it up gently and hopefully over time it will fade but that doesn't always happen it may not fade and if the yellow is not fading What are your options? What can you do? Well, let's talk about them.