I just wanted to follow up on this as I feel it deserves it’s own thread. I mean I’ve been reading about LHR for a while and I never knew about this untill someone here mentioned it. I still don’t think I fully understand though.
So how effective is this? Waxing/plucking the hairs so that when they grow back they’re all in anagen phase, and then immediately receiving laser treatment?
After 1st treatment the hair should synchronise, you shouldnt pluck or wax anything.
Important is to get treatments with a good machine - GentleLase, and to use the biggest handpiece possible (18mm) and the hightest energy per cm2 possible (18mm = 20J/cm2). Go there every 8-12weeks depending on area.
I dont think you will gain better results doing anything like that - if it should work, it will, if not, it wont - than you need to try electrolysis instead…Its just like that.
It was very effective for me. Most of the lower leg and all the bikini line area were done in 3 treatments. If the hair is untouched or you have only been shaving for quite some time before your first treatment, a good proportion of the hairs present at the first treatment will be in telogen. Even though they will shed if providing settings are good, those follicles will not be destroyed and you will have to get the hairs when they come back later in anagen. If everything present at the time of the first treatment is in anagen, you can technically get all of it proving the hairs are coarse and dark enough.
So you’re not getting a half wasted first treatment.
So this can in fact cause you to need less treatments overall?
It depends.
It can probably help save you a treatment or two, so it’s definitely something to try.
You can only do this once, and before your first treatment.
Yes, I think so. It probably depends on the body area though.
Yes, I think so. It probably depends on the body area though. [/quote]
This is for my face soo…
I planned it like this. I tweezed all the hairs and 6 weeks from there they will be treated.
For years I plucked like weekly so it was never like all the hair was present. So the past half year I just let everything grow out. Couple of days ago I plucked all the hair again. Hopefully this will prove to be very effective for my first treatment.
Yes, it should help.
Ok Monday is my first treatment. All the hair has grown back from when I plucked it 5 weeks ago.
Most of the hair grew back after the second and third week though. Did I do this correctly? like is the hair now in the right stage for the first treatment?
bump. would still like confirmation please.
I don’t think you can know for sure that ALL the hair has grown back from when you tweezed it five weeks ago. It is normal to see hair peeping through within a 2-3 week window if you tweeze, but that would be hair not tweezed that was going to naturally come in BEFORE you tweezed at that five week mark. If you tweezed improperly and the hair broke off under the skin, this could be, the same hair you unsuccessfully tried to tweeze.
You most likely have a high percentage of anagen hairs now, which is good for laser or electrolysis. Thumbs up to you, tinky.
I agree with Dee. In addition, you will never have ALL of your hair growing at one time. Never. If you had never tweezed, we would call this virgin hair growth. You “might” have reached virgin growth by not tweezing for 6 months… Even in that state, you will never have ALL of your hair growing at one time.
What will benefit you is that since you have stopped tweezing the electrologist will be able to treat each and every one of your hairs as they do cycle in. The signs of tweezing can last as long as 3 months, and even then, not all of your growing hair will have had chance to grow in and be treated.
I might be alone in this train of thought, but those charts giving the time span/life cycle of hairs on certain parts of the body mean very little. They might be “average” and they might not.
Electrolysis works. It takes time and you must be patient.
I don’t think you can know for sure that ALL the hair has grown back from when you tweezed it five weeks ago. It is normal to see hair peeping through within a 2-3 week window if you tweeze, but that would be hair not tweezed that was going to naturally come in BEFORE you tweezed at that five week mark. If you tweezed improperly and the hair broke off under the skin, this could be, the same hair you unsuccessfully tried to tweeze.
You most likely have a high percentage of anagen hairs now, which is good for laser or electrolysis. Thumbs up to you, tinky. [/quote]
Thanks dfahey. Well I would be happy if atleast the majority of the hair is in anagen now. Atleast a lot more than if I did not pluck the hairs 5 weeks back.
Too bad they can’t grow at the same time. It always has to be more complicated.
I’m not having electrolysis yet btw, it’s laser treatments first.
Well, perhaps if our hair growth cycles were synchronized, we would all look like animals. Mother Nature or God, take your choice, was good to us.
I hope you have a great laser experience.
just wanted to share, shedding was completed a while ago. its now 2 and a half weeks after my first treatment. like 95% shedding, im pretty satisfied.
im pretty nervous about the regrowth. they ensured i would be ready for another treatment after the 6th week since hair on the face grows quicker.
What are you nervous about? After new hair comes in, you’ll tackle it in the same way and it will shed 