shaving Vs trimming

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@yb

They’ve worked during all phases of hair growth for a century, and there has been a common belief among them that telogen hairs don’t have the same kill rate as anagen hairs. [size:14pt]Who’s right?[/size] I don’t know and you don’t know. Are our observations a good learning experience? For sure. But can we call it scientific evidence? Not really. There may always be more factors than are obvious to the onlooker.

“Another basic expectation is to document, archive and share all data and methodology so they are available for careful scrutiny by other scientists, giving them the opportunity to verify results by attempting to reproduce them. This practice, called full disclosure, also allows statistical measures of the reliability of these data to be established.”

In the link you left us, is the answer to your question. Try it yourself and see who is right. You have the method and material. Confirm or refutes, but do not be guided by what others said. Nor is there evidence that working in anagen is more effective than doing it in telogen.

[Geeeza]

There are people on this forum who will vouch for josefa as she has updated a few people from hair tell. Quite frankly it works so who cares. People will stick to what works when the so called methods that follow science don’t. science is not exact at that even…and that’s coming from a chemist.

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@yb

For most practical purposes, trimmed hair and long hair are the same hair. If a client comes in with long hair, I usually trim it myself before I work on it, as it allows me to move faster. If the hair is left long, it can be helpful in guesstimating it’s growth phase and how deep it is under the skin, but I don’t think that this advantage is nearly worth the trouble of getting tangled in long hair and slowing down.

As far as treating telogen hair, I don’t know if there is conclusive evidence either way about how effective treating it is. For any modality of electrolysis to work, you need water in the follicle, the more the merrier, and telogen hairs can run pretty dry. In my own very humble opinion, I rather have the client shave, and only present growing hairs for treatment. Growing hairs are easier/faster to treat, as they are of similar depth and release much better and with lower settings. It seems more cost-effective to work with anagen hair, more comfortable for the client, and less frustrating for both.

YB, I recovered this video for you. This is a treatment with most of the hair in telogen. If you look closely you will see that the lack of water in the follicle is not an obstacle to work. The current is working perfectly in the target area, hair slides out easily and the results are equally predictable. The difference is that this women have a clearance of more than 90% of the hairs in this area, and therefore, the results of the first clearance will be equivalent.