I have been getting electrolysis (thermolysis) done on my entire upper body for about two years now. I have had pretty good results. For some reason, the hair on my arms just seems to keep growing and growing at a rapid pace. Sometimes i’ll have hairs treated, and the next week it looks like hairs are growing back from the same spots that hairs had just been removed from. Would there be any benefit to trying the blend method on my arms to see if it makes any difference.
My electrologist is very skilled, and it does not seem like the hairs are been broken when being removed. I can actually see the bulbs at the base of the hairs that have been removed. Should I just press on with thermolysis or should I give the blend method a try?
Thanks.
disclaimer: I have never treated a man’s arms, but have completed other areas on men.
What I have discovered is that one person might have a cluster of 3 to 5 hairs in what appears to be the same follicle and another person can have 9 to 11 hairs coming from the same spot. If I can observe 11 hairs growing (like the leaves of a tulip or iris - but with separate roots) then I would also believe that some of those spots on the skin have other follicles that are currently dormant.
Now it could be that not enough of the follicle is receiving current, since there are stem cells in the follicle that generate a hair. You might try blend on one area and see if you see a difference.
Thermolysis, with the proper amount of energy used for the proper amount of time, with the largest probe size possible for the hair structure being treated will damage a hair follicle whether it be on your arm or leg, finger or toe. It simply works.
My favorite way of removing arm hair is to ask the client,male or female, to shave and then see me in 3 or 4 days. I also ask them to give me time to do a marathon clearance of the hairs that pop to the surface after that first shaving. Either we do this all at once or break it up into sessions over the next several weeks. I will even invite them to wax and them come back to me in 3 weeks to start treatment as new emerging hairs come forth. Either way, they put their time in up front and then the maintenance part begins. Six to eight clearings are necessary therafter for full removal or if you just want thinning, four full clearings would work.
If your electrolgist cannot work for more than hour, then you have to break this down and do as much as possible over several weeks. I attended a continuing education course this weekend and was surprised to hear several of the electrologists at my lunch table saying that they could never work on anyone over an hour because it is just too tiring. So, even though marathon sessions are the bomb, the hair removal consumer may have a hard time trying to find an electrologist that will commit a large block of time to them. We are all different in our approach to hair removal, but I have found doing longer sessions are not all that rough, until I get to the five hour mark. That’s when I personally start to fade a bit. I use MicroFlash thermolysis and soon will be offering PicoFlash thermolysis. These modes offer the advantage of deadly speed to damage the hair follicle. With no footswitch (autosensor mode), quality eyewear and quality lighting, marathon sessions can be offered because fatigue becomes less of an issue, for sure.
If you are doing several areas over your body, I’m not surprised that you may feel like your arms are not progressing. Focus on one area and then move to the next would be my advice. I would stick with thermolysis, personally, because it will work like a charm , in a good time frame if it is applied correctly with modern equipment and techniques. It will also work eventually, with slower permanent results using older tools of the trade. You have to go with what is available in your locale.
Dee