My electrologist told me that my hair on my arms is very fine, as she said she does not see a lot of hair that have “bulbs” at the root of the hair. Does this mean my hair has a better chance of being killed the first time, since it is thinner and not thicker?
This doesnt stand to reason, no.
If the electrologist is treating properly, it shouldnt take more than once but the usual regrowth and out of phase hairs will still apply and extend treatment to 1 year + . What it WILL mean if it’s really fine is it will be a bit tougher to get into the follicles.That she isnt able to see in intact root sheath, is concerning.
What I would suggest is trying a couple modalities to examine the hair structure. If she’s doing thermolysis and switches to blend for a few hairs for example, she should be able to get out a complete hair with root ball and sheath. Then knowing the exact depth of the root will make targeting thermolysis a bit easier.
At least this is my theory. The tone of what your electrologist is saying makes me think she might be struggling a little .I could well be way off so it’s probably better to get one of the pro’s opinions here.
Seana
Seana
by bulb does she mean root she is removing hairs and only seeing some with bulb / root I understood that for electrolysis to work you have to remove the root to kill the hair from growing back if she’s not removing the root she’s not doing it properly. Hopefully a pro like Seana said could help us out more with this.
If the hair on your arms have not been touched for a good season, most of them have reached a resting phase. At this stage, the melanocytes that give color to hair stop producing melanin, and the bulb and the inner root sheath are gone. The root juicy you can see when the hair is in the growth phase, has become a small white and dry spot. Hence it is known as “grain of salt”. Treatment of this type of hair does not mean that things are not doing well. The hair root is not our goal, but the surrounding tissue. This tissue will be there whether the root has a bulb, or not.
Here are two examples. In the first, the hairs are being treated in anagen (mostly). The roots are juicy and have bulbs. Since it is not gray, the melanocytes are active providing hair color (black spot at the base of the root):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqOzThEKq8
Here, the hairs are in the resting phase (telogen). The roots are difficult to see:
Hi all
Been reading the forum for the past few months and I finally started my electrolysis journey in March of this year. I am going to try the 3rd electrologist on my list, because the second one I went to said many things that ran contradictory to what I’ve read on here. One of which was sorta related to what the OP of this thread mentioned, too. She said that fine, vellus hairs are not going to be possible to remove with electrolysis and that I should just use nair cream to get rid of those :huh: Needless to say, I decided that was probably enough time with that electrologist.
Hi Josefa, I was wondering, what modality are you using and what machine on these videos? Also, do those probes come bended like that or did u do the bend yourself? One day I accidentally bent the probe and kept on working and I said “ummm this is actually easier”.
She bends them herself Olivia. Laurier Probes can be bent without concern for the insulation.