I have just started to use my SX-Blend epilator. Is it absolutely necessary to pluck the hair from the root once I have zapped it or will it fall out by itself over time. I just find its time consuming if it isn't necessary. Thanks.

If one doesn't remove a treated follicle, it should fall out either during bathing, or as a result of the natural boilogical process, however, the reason professionals DO take the time to remove them is because some of them would activate enough of the immune response so that one would have puss filled bumps trying to force the dead tissue up and out of the body. If this happened to only one in one hundred hairs, it would provide an unsatisfactory result for a professional. See, you thought we only removed them so that we could milk it for time, since we are paid by the hour.

In addition to plucking the hairs out to prevent those puss filled bumps (I always seem to get a few of those after electro and laser), I always thought the hairs were also plucked to 1) prevent re-treating the same hair twice and 2) to gauge how well the treatment is proceeding (are the hairs coming out properly, is there a root sheath and bulb on the anagen hairs etc.)

Or do only rank amateurs like me have to pluck them out of those two reasons?

Once one has The Zen of Electrolysis, one can actually feel if the treatment energy was good.

Of course, those are also good reasons to remove the hair. That in addition to making the treated area instantly free of hair, and thus making the treated person happy. One can look closer to finished, if not look finished at the end of the treatment.

Interesting. You can feel the treatment energy in your fingers as you apply treatment (to someone else)? Or do you judge by the reaction of the follicle?

I am almost at the point I can almost judge a treated hair by the sensation of the treatment (working on myself.) Using omniblend, three or four cycles with a good, sharp burning sensation and I know the hair is done and can release easy and intact. I am not sure if it should routinely take three or four cycles to treat a single hair or I am doing something wrong; it takes so much longer than it would if it worked in one cycle, but on the other hand I am surprised and delighted how well it does work.