The thing that makes facial hair laser removal very different from the rest of the body is the risk of damaging the nearby tissue. While laser hair treatment in itself is generally very safe and there are very few side effects that could go wrong, nothing is ever completely risk free. Holding the laser in one place for too long might cause burns or blisters and any method of hair removal will inevitably irritate the skin to some degree. But the great thing about the laser technique is that it is very good at targeting the dark hairs and leaving other tissue alone.

The only tissue we must really worry about is the most delicate organ of the body and those are the eyes which happen to be on the face. For this reason alone the laser should never be anywhere near the face and when a patient is being treated in the clinic there will be goggles to protect the eyes. When using a home system and treating a part of the body that is not the face, it is still important to heed some guidelines such as ensuring that it is only used on skin that are eligible for laser hair removal.