{"id":89,"date":"2026-10-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/laser-darker-skin\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:00:00","slug":"laser-darker-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/laser-darker-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser on darker skin: what changes and what doesn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, patients with medium and darker skin were told laser wasn\u2019t for them. That was a limit of the devices and training of the time, not of their skin.<\/p>\n<h2>What changes<\/h2>\n<p>Melanin absorbs laser energy. In darker skin, more of the energy is caught at the surface, which raises the risk of burns and dark marks. The answer is a longer wavelength, lower energy and more patience.<\/p>\n<h2>What doesn\u2019t<\/h2>\n<p>The results. Hair reduction, scar improvement and texture all respond on darker skin when the plan is right. It may take a session or two more.<\/p>\n<h2>Before you book<\/h2>\n<p>Ask which wavelength the clinic uses for your skin type and how many patients with your skin tone they treat each month. Then ask for a test spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darker skin can be treated safely with laser. It just can\u2019t be treated with the same settings, or always the same device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_altessa_doctor":60,"_altessa_minutes":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesrocket.com\/demo\/altessa-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}