Your electrologist's skill and your commitment are decisive factors to reach your goal of permanency in the shortest amount of time. Once you start Electrolysis refrain from plucking, waxing or
After you have begun your Electrolysis treatment do not puck, tweeze or wax the area being treated. These methods of temporary hair removal will undo the work that had been done and may stimulate more hair growth. Cutting or shaving the hairs are the only acceptable methods to trim the hair in-between appointments.
Let the hair grow!
It's best to stop shaving for at least 2 days before your appointment. And for other methods like waxing, tweezing, and etc., these should be stopped 2-3 weeks prior to your first treatment and they must be discontinued once your series of electrolysis appointments begin.
A trained electrologist inserts a thin wire into the hair follicle under the surface of the skin. An electric current moves down the wire to the bottom of the follicle, destroying the hair root. The follicle damage prevents hair from growing and causes the existing hair to fall out.
Plucking too soon after laser can lead to a number of undesirable effects: Damage to the hair follicle – Plucking can destroy follicles before they have a chance to shed naturally. This disrupts the hair growth cycle. Scarring – Pulling out hairs from inflamed pores raises the risk of scarring and pitted skin.
While it may be tempting to pull out loose hairs after your laser treatment, resisting the urge will yield better results and prevent skin irritation.
Quite simply, plucking disrupts the natural hair growth cycle that laser hair removal targets. When you pluck a hair, you remove it from the root. This means that there's no hair for the laser to target during your next session, which can ultimately make the treatment less effective.
Finally, you will undoubtedly have made permanent hair removal by electrolysis more difficult to accomplish by created distorted follicles with the additional possibility of ingrown hair. All of this from a simple act of extracting a hair with tweezers.
This regrowth is known as false regrowth because the hair wasn't treated initially. Incomplete Follicle Destruction: In some cases, the hair follicle might not be fully destroyed during treatment. This leads to true regrowth, where the follicle can still produce new hair.
Electrolysis is not as popular as laser hair removal for a few reasons: Longer Treatment Time: As mentioned, treating each hair follicle individually makes electrolysis take much longer. Laser hair removal often takes 10 minutes or less for smaller areas.
For electrolysis we need there to be three to four days of hair growth present when you arrive to each of your sessions. Once you begin sessions you can no longer tweeze, wax, epilate or thread the area being treated.
There are other potential downsides of consuming caffeine before electrolysis as well. Caffeine can dehydrate the skin, which can make the skin more sensitive and more prone to irritation.
Drink lots of water before, the day of, and the day after your appointment. It is very important to come to your appointment fully hydrated. Hydrated follicles will ensure a more effective treatment because electrolysis works by using the water content in the follicle.
Tweezing, otherwise known as plucking, is a quick and mostly painless way to remove hairs by yourself. It's as easy as owning a pair of tweezers, finding stray hair, and pulling it out of your body and life.
No, it does not – it is a myth that has been around for a very long time. Your hair cycles stay the same and actually, when we begin electrolysis with a shaved area, your hairs die faster than if you had previously done anything else such as waxing, threading, laser, or tweezing.
Any method that requires to pull the hair from the root will slow down your progress. The hair may not be visible on your next visit for the electrologist to treat it so it will take longer to finish, plus pulling will also stimulate more hair growth in that area and will therefore be a step back in your treatment.
You can readily find claims online that scarring from electrolysis is exceedingly rare.
About 93% of electrolysis procedures yield permanent success, an excellent number for hair removal procedures. Remember, electrolysis does not work for everyone, and the chance for regrowth is still there, though very slight. Fortunately, this myth is true!
Avoid plucking or waxing for 2-3 weeks before, and avoid shaving for 3-5 days before your electrolysis appointment. In order for the needle to follow the hair follicle and more easily remove the hair, there needs to be at least 1/8th of an inch of hair above the surface of the skin.
Waxing and plucking can damage the hair follicles, causing new hair growth to be slower and thinner over time. These methods are not considered permanent hair growth, though.
Prior to getting this treatment done, Marmur recommends prepping your skin and making sure it's hydrated. “Hydration allows you to see better results,” she says. To do that, she says to drink lots of water and avoid dehydrating foods and drinks such as chocolate, caffeine, and alcohol 24 hours before.
You cannot pluck, wax, tweeze, or thread the hair in your treated area. Doing any of these would mean removing the roots of the hair. These roots are important because the laser targets them in the process. The treatment will try to deactivate these hair follicles by cutting their blood supply and weakening them.
People who pull out their hair often cause damage to their skin and tissue just underneath the skin's surface, especially if they use any kind of personal care tool like tweezers. Skin and tissue damage sometimes need repair or skin grafting to fix.
Avoid plucking, waxing, threading, and hair removal creams for at least 6 weeks pre-treatment. This preserves the follicle for laser targeting. Stop taking irritating skin products like retinoids, benzoyl peroxide, and hydroxy acids approximately 5 days before.