hi
i just wanted to clarify something. with electoylsis, when a individual hair is treated in a session, will that hair never ever come back, or will it grow back and require further treatments?? i was being worked on using the Apilus machine…
Preety
Hi Preety:
Just speaking from the viewpoint of a long time client of electrolysis:
Unfortunately only a percentage of the hairs are permanently removed on the first removal. I think it has something to do with getting the hair in the growth phase, type of and intensity of treatment, etc…
If you can get a full clearance on a treatment area and maintain regular treatments then you will get all the hairs that come back in the growth phase. A good machine and practitioner skill all help increase the kill rate.
Alicia
If a hair is in the proper growth phas, and is treated with the proper treatment setting, and the insertion is done well, (man, that’s a lot if “IF’s”) then one treatment will kill that one hair, the first time it is treated, and you will never see that hair again.
In practicle terms, electrologists have to deal with the fact that most people want large areas cleared of hair, and that hair is growing with many hairs and different hairs growing at different times. It is just easier for an electrologist to say to a client that it takes many treatments over many months to kill a hair, than it is to get them to understand that the hair you see in January is different hair from what you see in July. All the client is aware if is that there is hair growing in the same general area, but has no way of knowing that it is coming from different follicles.
This phase thing is the reason why getting to First Clearance and maintanence of that clearance on an aggressive schedule is the best plan, as the first clearance will have as little as 20% permanence, and no more than 60% permanence, due to the number of hairs that are out of phase and hairs that are not well treated for one reason or another. During maintanence treatments, however, all hairs would be inperfect growth phase, and therefore, success rates skyrocket to the 60% to 80% zone based on your practitioner’s skill.
thank you for the answer, made alot of sense 
ive ended up now with alot of fine hair, and am eager to get rid of them.
does it also make alot of difference from having time out?? i havnt been for the last month, how will this effect the hair already treated or my progress in general???
The treated hair has received what it received, and is not effected by your hiatus. The longer you wait in between treatments, however, the more hairs that come into growth phase while you are not getting treated, and you eventually “Fall Out Of Phase” and one needs to reclear the area as if it were a first clearance, instead of a maintenance clearance taking place sometime within 12 weeks or less. In the beginning, one wants to have treatment at least every 3 to 6 weeks if you are clearing the entire area each and every time.