dee.oz,
You are very sweet and I take no offense with any question you ask. In fact, I admire your total, persistent effort here to figure out this new technology. What you are doing by posting your comments, observations and questions will help many who are silently following this thread and hoping alongside you. Everybody wants pain-free permanent hair removal with no skin reaction. Even though the manufacture says this is LONG TERM hair removal, meaning it is not permanent, you do have the other two factors working in your favor - pain-free and no skin reaction.
Now to your question. With electrolysis, we treat individual hairs and then we lift out the hair. When we lift out the hair, we know at that moment, we have a clue, that the hair received the proper amount of energy for the proper amount of timing, if it slides out nicely. If it slides out nicely, we can most probably feel very good about that because,most likely, that means the hair has been permanently eliminated. Thus, the client gets what she or he has paid for.
Waxing after passing an ultrasonic wave down the hair shaft gives a great visual appearance, but the practitioner has no way of knowing how the hair would have released, by mass waxing. If they tweeze it on an individual basis, well you would or would not feel it, so that would be better than waxing.
Permanent hair removal should have sensation attached to it. Each hair is surrounded by a network of nerves. When heat is used to coagulate the bottom 2/3 of the follicle, you should feel something. It has been said by electrolysis pioneers that “a painless treatment is a worthless treatment”. This is why I remain skeptical. I am not a know-it-all hot shot, so I remain open-minded to anything posted here. When I hear critical mass stories about hair NOT returning six months to one year after doing nothing to an area that was treated by this device, then I will express some emotion here. Their clinical studies are deceitful. They only observed hair for sixty days when a hair growth cycle can be double the amount of time if it is a finer hair.
Why should I care where you put your hopes and how you spend your money? Well, I know how hard I labor to earn my money and I don’t like to be ripped off. Also, when these dream devices are invented and the studies are dubious and defy the principles of permanent hair removal, then it reflects back on electrolysis. We are thrown into the mix of “no such thing as permanent hair removal” and we then we have to spend a lot of time convincing the consumer that we are not in the same category as those magic tweezer and cream devices that are constantly being pushed at 2am in thirty minute long infomercials.
We are having an honest, polite exchange here. It is not my intention to smirk and say, " I told you so " in the end. I am for freedom and want you to exercise your right to go forth and try something new. I value your opinions and observations and I get the sense that you will be fair and honest about this product and what it has done for you two years from now.
Lastly, are you getting electrolysis done on the areas that you are being treated with ultrasound?