Why do some electrolysis say that treated hair dies after one session and some say it could take a couple zaps to permanently kill a hair follicle. Also when do individuals in general start seeing good results with electrolysis
My theory is it’s different ways of explaining the same Phenomina.
The first thing that has to be understood is that there is no such thing as a 100% kill rate. It doesnt exist.There is no modality that you can definitively say with 100 percent certainty that all hairs treated will die the first time around.with 100 percent accuracy. Some hairs will regrow for any nuber of reasons. Often these hairs grow back weaker or partially stunted and die more easily the second time.
There’s also no way to accurately measure kill rate. It’s just a guess. When doing full clearances electrolysis is a progressive process. We know that some hairs we treat will surrvive to be killed another day. All the modalities successfully kill hair. And not all hair shows at any given point in time but if done properly the hair will dwindle away over 12-18 months in ever decreasing numbers. You can argue that we’re killing some hair follicles twice, it doesnt matter, they still die in the end.The measure of a good modality, is just the efficiency at which it accomplishs that task.
Seana
Hi Seana,
Thank you that reply. So should I trust a electrolysis that tells me that they are able to kill the follicle first time? They must be very sure of their ability to have to say that.
Its just different levels of confidence in their work . Unless they are folling that up with an In-writing guarantee of results, I wouldnt put any faith in it.
That level of security and / or trust in our work is not something that falls from the sky, nor a marketing strategy. It is about years observing the same results in all types of cases, regardless of sex, race, area, and hair size.
I am one of those who are willing to put in writing a signed guarantee for the time it will take to carry out the second and third clearing. The only condition is that the client in turn signs his/her commitment to keep the hairs untouched.
The word that best defines electrolysis is “predictable”, but only if you know what you are doing.
I think the more relevant issue is the institutionalization (in the schools and manufacturers) of the so-called “breaking down process.”
This concept is that hairs have to be treated several times to achieve full elimination. The alleged proof of this is that the hairs “come back finer and lighter, until eventually dispatched.” Without going into how this idea is based on incorrect observation, it has however led to some terrible outcomes.
An electrologist (in another near-by country), in a case I was involved with, spent 240 hours on a woman’s underarms and claimed she was “about half done with the case.” A recent case (male) spent 140 hours (back) and presented hundreds-and-hundreds of ingrown hairs. (Treatment was from a major “name” in the field!) He said the electrologist spent 30-minutes digging out the ingrowns before zapping them again. Other victim/clients said their electrologists believed in “saving the skin” and only used “light treatment” to slowly “break down the follicles.”
All these practitioners stridently and aggressively believe in “the breaking down process.” They learned this shit in school! And, it is total shit! The notion is fantasy and results in bad treatment … and a bad reputation for the entire field of electrology.
Time to grab the pitchforks, let’s burn these heretics! lol
Is there a specific reason as to why so many ingrown hairs were present?