Hi
Just wondering if an electrologist can tell if a hair is in the proper growth phase while treating a hair? I ask because lets say there is an area of hairs that is not in growth phase, so that way one can avoid wasting time and movney treating those hairs.
Thanks
If one shaves 1-3 days before going in for session, what we see are a mixture of hairs barely peaking out of the follicle opening along with hairs that have popped out overnight. The ones that barely come above the surface are probably the non-growing hair and can be ignored and the ones that have length are the growing active hair follicles. Color and structure gives us hints as well, but sometimes we get surprises.
You will never have a space that is all hairs in various states of shedding. All hair growth is staggered so that you always look like you have the same amount of hair. So you would have a growing hair, next to a shedding hair, next to a growing hair, next to a club hair.
Some electrolysis providers will have you shave 3 days prior to the treatment, and treat, say three or five growing hairs and remove those treated hairs, plus pluck five to ten shedding hairs. Because they are shedding the hairs will come right out when challenged. The client gets a completely bare look, and the worker has not spent time treating hairs that are not in the optimum growth phase.
That is why we have so many people who come here complaining that their worker “does nothing but pluck them”, because they don’t feel the removal of the treated hairs, they only feel the plucking of the shedding hairs.
Even though the practitioner often explains to the client that this is what they plan on doing, customers are often too busy saying, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, can we just get on to the skin poking already! Blah, blah, blah, a little less conversation and a little more action!”