As a defensive end for a Division 1 university, Nana Osafo-Mensah knows football. And he also knows it gets hot and steamy under that helmet, which is why he prefers to be clean-shaven.But for him, shaving always felt like too much pain and not enough gain. “Being African American, I have curly, coarse hair; I used to get a lot of ingrowns on my beard and my neck, so shaving would be painful,” Osafo-Mensah says. “I didn’t like how often I would have to do it. My hair would grow back so fast. I would be insecure about the [razor] bumps.”A lightbulb momentAfter one of his friends started going to Milan Laser Hair Removal, Osafo-Mensah decided to look into it. “I was skeptical about laser hair removal at first because I couldn’t find pictures of African American people who had been through the process,” he says. “But talking to the experts at Milan Laser, they emphasized their special procedures for people with dark skin.” Tha… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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