Many times people talk about the importance of accurate insertions for good results. But I thought the probe won’t go in if it’s not in the follicle. So is it all about the depth of the insertion?
I don’t know but what I can tell you is if the insertion is inaccurate may God help you!!! I have been through it and it hurts like hell.
Getting the needle into the opening of the follicle itself isn’t too hard. I would find it difficult to push an electrolysis needle though and into the skin and completely miss the opening of the follicle, and not bend or break the needle.
But, once you get the tip of the needle into the opening of the follicle and start to go down, you can go too shallow and miss the target or go too deep (and poke through the bottom), and/or poke through the follicle wall (which can be felt as a needle stick sensation.)
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Can someone please explain the result of a hair that is treated with too shallow an insertion versus with too deep an insertion that pokes through the follicle wall? Does the result differ if using blend versus thermolysis?
Too shallow and in additon to hurting more and being ineffective, you risk severing the hair inside the follicle, and in the case of thermolysis, creating an ingrown hair by sealing the broken but growing hair beneath the collapsed skin when the treatment ends. This is also a great way to blanch the skin, or blow divits in the surface skin as you can have blow-outs.
To deep and you experience more pain, and probably don’t have permanent hair removal. If the treatment energy is high enough to give permanent hair removal (if you are off target, you need more energy to be effective) there could be other side effects, like pitting or scarring.
Thanks James.
Might this be why sometimes I have what appears to be a thicker than normal hair break through the skin but I can just pull it out with my fingernail and thumb? Or is that just the bulb or sheath that got trapped in the follicle when the hair slid out just working its way out? For some reason I can always spot those. They just look different. I can always just pull them out.
To Quote Former President James Earl Carter, “There are no easy answers.” 
Those could be there for a few reasons. Sure one is that it was broken off by misplaced treatment energy, but other possibilities are “collateral damage” when some spill-over treatment catches a hair that was growing, but had not reached the skin’s surface yet. When it breaks through, it is already dead. Some hair become ingrown for any number of reasons, and finish their life cycle without ever having reached the skin’s surface, and when the skin above it sheds off enough to release any part of the hair, you can just pull it out without traction.
Thanks again James. And sorry to take this thread off track. I haven’t posted in a while but I am SO pleased with electrolysis. I have been going religiously and diligently since July 2008 and I can say it really works. It is a HUGE commitment and it is expensive but so worth it. It has changed my life already and it will only get better.
Thank You’s are always appreciated.
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