I’ve been doing electrolysis for a few months and I was just wondering. Is it normal for the hair to start growing back within a few days?
Permanent hair removal begins on the very first treatment. The length of time it takes to permanently remove hair depends on whether the hair is in the correct stage of the hair cycle. So, in your case, it’s normal for the hair to grow back after the very first treatment. However, you will have to continuously “zap” those hair once they grow back each time. As time progresses, they will grow back much finer, and eventually, they will be permanently gone for good.
The reason we stress FULL clearances every 6 weeks is that for one to finish one needs to remove all the hair in an area before it changes phases, and then catch the next group of hairs as they come out. As this process occurs, you will have progressively less and less hair to treat, if you get full clearances each and every phase. If you can’t do this in one appointment, make sure you do clear the entire area in 4 to 6 weeks time so that you are not leaving hairs untreated in a cycle. If you miss hairs, they will come back next year at the same time, and you will need to do treatments at a time when you could have been finished.
Most of my clients are done with their work in roughly 17 treatments spread out over 18 months, and each clearance tends to be less time than the last (other than possible plateaus along the way where a few treatments take the same amount of time as the last).
I love that first sentence!!! I’m going to “borrow” it for my consultations! Thank you in advance!
As for “hair to grow back”…once treated properly - a hair will never grow back. The hairs that show up after a treatment are from follicles that were previously dormant and are now taking their turn, albeit unsynchronized and on their own sweet timeline, to grow.