Meladine - please help

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#21

Thanks for your post.

I’d just like to say that I take good care of my health and am absolutely positively sure that there is nothing medically wrong with me. I have seen doctors, been sent to specialists, had blood tests and scans and got the all clear so I think I can write that I have nothing medically wrong. The only problem I had was listening to a boy when I was 16 saying that I should shave my face as I had blonde downy hair and being too self conscious so I shaved it. I was not asking for a diagnosis from you but just to see peoples opinions on meladine.
Thank you.

#22

Hi,

I’ve just looked up about flash thermolysis but on one site it said its not effective on distorted/curved hair. I have naturally curly hair but would prefer to use this flash thermolysis as it seems much quicker and hopefully get a quicker result. Do you know if it has worked on others with curly hair or would you reccommend staying with electrolysis?
Thanks

#23

DFAHEY you said: "
Does shaving stimulate hair growth / hypertrichosis

It is a common belief, but cutting or shaving hair does not stimulate growth. Hair fiber is dead, if it is cut there is no way for the dead hair to send a signal back to the hair follicle in the skin to grow more hair. The studies to prove hair cutting did not stimulate growth were done back in the 1920s but the belief still persists.

Several studies have been conducted where volunteers shaved half of their beard or scalp hair and left the other half untouched. The shavings were collected and measured and the hair left untouched was also measured. The results showed that the amount of hair produced was exactly the same whether the hair was regularly shaved or not."

Tell me then…how come some hair like for example on your belly or genital area grows to a certain length…And stays that way…but AFTER you shave it, the whole area begins to grow again untill the length reached? You want to tell me the body doesn’t know the hair is was cut off?

Question number 2…Why then do proffessional hair removers all over the world advise to shave (and i don’t mean to get the hair short enough) to get as many hairs in the growth fase as possible if the body doesn’t notice that hair is being shaved of and thus can’t ‘order’ the hair to stay or go into growth face after shaving…

#24

Hair grows, then sheds, then falls out.

During the process of shedding, the hair is not growing any longer, but an unexposed portion of the hair is being pushed up from within the skin. At a certain point, this hair would reach its tipping point and fall out. At that point, it would not be there anymore, and thus not be visible. On the other hand, as the hair was being pushed out, it would appear to be reaching to attain the length of an unclipped hair. The only way that one would not see what appears to be the hair attaining, or coming close to attaining this length prior to falling out would be if the hair were to be clipped repeatedly as it sheds, and then compared to a hair already in Anagen Growth Phase.

As for those electrolysis practtitioners who request shaving, clipping or waxing, they are doing this so that they can more easily see growing hairs, while doing something different with the shedding hairs, so as to conserve treatment efforts.