When a hair is pulled out what should I look for to ensure that it is being properly treated, and thus, destroyed? I know it should slide out quite easily, but other than that, what should I watch out for in it’s appearance?
thx,
bella
If you tweeze a couple hairs and look at the structures, the one that has a moist, bulby appearance with a sock-like, transparent covering over the the bottom of the hair stick. Hair breaking off below the skin surface is not what you want. If it slides out, yes, that is good, but some hairs don’t. We can only predict that hairs are “goners” by observing these clues. The real proof lies down the road when the hair does not return several months after treatment. Unlike many reports on the internet, it does not take 5 or 6 times to to eliminate one hair. Most hairs can be permanently disabled in the first attempt if the energy levels, timing and probe size and selection are carefully chosen.
Ask your electrologist to show you several hairs. Look for a “bulb” and a tapered end. If you pre-shave though, the end will be blunt as opposed to tapered.
What if the hair does have a bulb but no transparent covering?
It masy be in a later stage of growth. Electrologists really like those moist hairs, but not all are going to be this way in the early treatments especially. Doesn’t mean we are still not eliminating or weakening the hair growth tissue.