I am starting electrolysis tomorrow. I think i read somewhere here that it can only kill hair during one stage. Can anyone elucidate on this? Is it best to start treatment ASAP after you start seeing the hair coming in? For best efficiency, what’s the latest one should wait before treating it?
Some sources say this is so and some say absolutely not that electrolysis can disable hair follicles in any stage of growth.
So, if you have hair that you want gone, just treat it. Different areas of the body have different growth rates as well as different anagen to telogen ratio’s.
More information from James Walker’s post:
"Hair Percentages by method used:
When you start treatment, the hair in your treatment area can be anywhere from 20% to 80% in growth phase. Those are the only hairs that can reasonably be expected to be gone and gone for good. Now on the hairs that can be treated, the electrologist’s effectiveness for insertion and treatment energy will dictate the percentage kill rate on hairs that could be killed at that time.
Let’s assume that you start with 80% hairs in growth phase, and your electrologist has an 80% kill rate on growing hairs, this means that of all the hairs you remove the first day 64% are gone and gone for good! (In the case of 20% in growth phase, 16% would be gone and gone for good based on our model) The key here is to keep in mind that if you stay on schedule, and never let hairs leave the growth phase after your first clearance, you will have even better results the rest of the way.
In your clearances after first clearance, if you have stayed on schedule, you have 100% hairs in growth phase. If your electrologist has an 80% kill rate then 80% of the hairs treated after the first clearance are gone and gone for good! It is possible in this stage of the treatment to have 100% effectiveness, whereas it is not possible to have 100% effectiveness on all hairs in a first clearance because you never have 100% available hairs in a first clearance.
If you live near enough to your electrologist, it is possible to get to first clearance, and keep the hair at bay so that no one knows you have hair but you and your electrologist once you get to first clearance, assuming you are working on an area that your electrologist can clear from start to finish in a week to 3 weeks each time. This is where being able to get large volumes of work done in short periods of time in the beginning will lead to short appointments in the end stage and quicker project completion times."
thanks for the quick reply. :3
I’d suggest James’ quote be edited slightly and added to the electrolysis FAQ, because it realistically explains an effective strategy for pursuing electrolysis. It also looks at two ranges of kill rates, neither one extreme or unrealistic.
Thank you Dee for posting it. 
Hi, I’m sorry if I sound alike a nube and if this point has already been addressed but I just wanted to ask if I fail to see my electrologist at regular intervals and my hair is at very low percent of its growth phase (lets just say 10%) will the hair grown back thicker and stronger? Or is that not how the hair cycle works?
Thanks
No. Delaying treatment will not cause hair to grow back thicker and stronger. It will only result in some hair follicles transitioning to the shedding and resting stage.
Hairs become larger in diameter from hormones, genetics, medications and repeated tweezing and waxing.
You want to stay on schedule so that you’re not treating hairs that are in the wrong phase of growth.