I’m sorry this may have been answered in that past.
If you are going for electrolysis on a certain region and you shave that region once a while is it bad? Does it interfere with electrolysis’s ability to eliminate the hair permanently?
I did a search on google and I believe it said shaving is ok as long as it’s 3 days prior to electrolysis session.
I use electrolysis for the back of my neck, but I shave my head 3 times a week. This makes it so that there will be some hair right above the place where electrolysis is used, and I have 2 options. (1) not shave those hairs,…this is no good because then people think I have missed some spots while shaving.
(2) shave those hairs…but this means I have to use my razor facing upward, and that means I have to shave a few hairs that were removed previously from electrolysis.
Shaving is fine. It is plucking or waxing the area that is a big no-no.
Three days is a good rule of thumb, though it may vary depending how fast the hair you are having treated grows. When you go for your first electrolysis appointment, it is a good idea to discuss this with your electrologist, since they may need more or less growth depending on their vision equipment and other variables.
It is a good idea to wait until at least the next day before shaving (assuming the area you want treated isn’t fully cleared after your treatment.)
Shaving DOES NOT interfer at all with when one is having electrolysis. Just the opposite is true. I encourage my clients to shave. It is helpful in many ways for both of us. One to three days before a session is great.
I’m having difficulty understanding your #2 statement. Can you re-state it please. Are you saying the area is not healed well-enough to shave with a blade razor?
Thanks guys. Dee, I will explain statement #2 again.
Ok, hair at the back of one’s head (and the back of the neck) grows downward. So in order for me to shave the hairs on the “edge” (or lower end at back of my head) I will have to shave upward to make sure all hairs are fully removed. But since the hairs below that line (or edge I call) have been treated with electrolysis I would have no choice but to use the razor on some of those hairs. I could avoid shaving most of the hairs that have been electrolyzed but it is those that are on the boundary that will be “accidentally” shaved.
question to DEE, when your clients shave a day before the session, does it become more difficult for you to remove the hairs?
The first lady that did the back of my neck said once we start electrolysis you can’t shave because it goes against the work that we do (but now I’m thinking she didn’t have enough experience to know the truth). The new lady that does it for me (the more experienced one) hasn’t said anything, I guess probably because I didn’t ask her.
If the hairs have been treated with electrolysis, wouldn’t they be gone (lifted out)? If you are shaving your head, so you may as well shave your neck as well for electrolysis. I would think that the electrologist could see the line of hair follicles between head and neck. I probably made this more confusing, not meaning to, but that’s how understand this. Would someone else like to interpret if I didn’t respond very well?
I have great surgical magnification customized for my eyes. I can see a lot, but probably for a neck hair situation, three days would be much better so the hair can be grapsed by the tweezers easily. Beard hair needs about a days worth of growth to grasp if the vision equipment is good, but other hair grows a little slower, so a couple days is better.
Your first lady is incorrect about shaving. The second lady probably feels no big dif, she can work just fine with or without shaving.