In which phase to start ?

Hair Removal Methods Do-It-Yourself Electrolysis
#1

Hello,

I vaguely remember that there are different phases for hair growth, I want to do my back and shoulder. I didn’t remove the hair in almost 3 months so it’s pretty much as long as it gets. Not intentionally, just was no beach time. Anyways, just these days I was supposed to get a waxing but now I am curious if I should rather not do that in order for my girlfriend to catch the hairs when they are at their longest? Epilation will start in 5 weeks when I am back home in Europe, just bought a machine here in the US.

So basically either I leave them be or I shave / wax them now and they will be 5 weeks “old” when starting the epilation. Which is better? Or doesn’t matter at all ?

Thank you for your help,
Fox

#2

leave them. Hair can be destroyed in any phase of hair growth

#3

Many if not 95% of electrologists out there will prefer to work on early anagen phase/in early growth, 3-5 week old hair. Anagen hair has higher chance of being successfully treated with fewer # of clearances required, a little easier to treat, requires less energy to release so more comfort/less pain. I think for do-it-yourself types, working on early growth will increase treatment success compared to working on 3 month old hair.

#4

fenix I’m going to have to respectfully disagree. There is no way, even by shaving of matching up the hair growth phase of all the different hairs. While telogen and late growth hairs may take a little more energy, the process is the same to destroying them and it has been proven ( right here on hairtell) that anogen only is bunk . If the hair can be seen and the hair foollicle identified, the germination cells can be destroyed. There is no difference in destroying them from either a beginner, or experienced electrologist point of view.

Seana

#5

You could be 90-years-old (telogen) … or 16-years-old (anagen). If you get run over by a bus, you’re dead anyway. Yeah, it’s like that!