Hello everyone,
Some of my hairs require 2-3 insertions to get removed. This is usually in the beard area, where I have been tweezing for years (5 years, actually!), but isn’t this a bit too much? The other day, she had to do one hair about 4 times before it finally came out.
Also, every hair pulled off by the electorlogist has a bulb on the bottom - this is a white, transluscent bulb. That’s the target, right? To remove this bulb.
Finally, every few hours (say, two times per hour), she comes across a very old hair with what she calls a ‘dried up root’. This is an old hair. Is this normal?
One more question, how much longer should I expect to see new hairs in the chin area? Is this one of those areas where the hair remains dormant for up to 12 months? I sure hope not. I will evaluate and see where I stand after 6 months.
Oh yes, one more thing, the current is sometimes very painful (not unbearable), but enough to make me shudder sometimes. If we go any lower, then she needs to keep it in the follicle for up to 30+ seconds, and it just drags on and on and on!
Obviously, you are doing blend. Your practitioner needs to find a way to put enough energy in the treatment to remove the hair, while not making the treatment comfortable enough for you to undergo treatment. She could do the treatment in 7 seconds if you could sit through the treatment in that mode.
Since I am not working on you, and I don’t know what machine she is using, I can’t comment on what she could do to speed things along.
It is optimum to have a treatment setting that the client can tolerate, while also being able to reliably remove hairs with just one treatment cycle. Although it is not unusual to find hairs that do not respond to the treatment energy she has preselected, it would be nice if a good reliable treatment energy were in use, and all the hairs that it would respond to were removed at that energy, and then changes made to go after the next group of hairs that require a different setting.
If you remove a group of hairs, you need to either stay on schedule, to keep that area clear, or you understand that new hairs will come in, but the area will be seeing the next phases of hair growth come in until the same time next year, when the treatment time comes around again, where you will then see the fruits of the work you do now.
I think you should read the growth thread so you can understand why you need 9 to 18 months to have a hope of finishing an area.
Lastly, yes, you should get a translucent bulb, the dried up ones are hairs that were shedding, and that is normal as well.