sorry its taken so long to update you.
but i have a question. i’ve had a clearence but it only lasts about a week and then more hair is coming in. i know its nt the same hair but i cant understand because people say after you get cleared then you dont need to go until maybe 3 weeks later.
is this normal for hair to be growing all the time?
I don’t know where you see that people don’t need to go until 3 weeks later after the clearance. It varies based on how much hair you have and how often you were going in the first place. You need to go in as soon as you see new hair. In the first several months, going weekly is normal.
After your first clearance, your electrologist should give you a rough schedule (every 2 weeks, or 4 weeks or whatnot) for future appointments. If she hasn’t given you a schedule, make sure you ask. The schedule between appointments will change over time, as you continue to have clearances.
The hair growing right now is totally normal. This is a simplification of the process, but this should give you the general idea.
At your first clearance, your electrologist removed all of the hair above the skin, regardless of growth stage.
The hair you see now was dormant (from exogen to early anagen) when you had your first clearance, have started growing (full anagen) and has grown up and out of the follicle and is now visible above the skin.
At your next scheduled appointment, that hair you see will be prime for zapping because it is in anagen stage. Now, at the same time, under the skin there will be dormant hair you don’t see, and by your next electrolysis appointment those hairs will be in anagen stage and be ready to be treated (and there will be hairs that are dormant under the skin that will be treated at the next appointment, and so on.)
oh right so this is normal?
i suppose when you say every 2-3 weeks that they let the hair grow out for that long? and what i’m seeing is just growing out and will be in its growth stage still in 3 weeks time?
so i shouldnt be worrying about seeing new hair this much?
No, you should not worry.
This is why it is so important to get to First Clearance as soon as possible. Once you do, you have the option of aggressive scheduling that allows you to stop shaving right away, (that is have reclearances every week) or be a little more relaxes about it, and get recleared in 3 to 4 weeks (one would shave much less frequently on this schedual). One could even skate the edge of the razor and get recleared every 6 to 8 weeks, but if you are not traveling a long distance to see your practitioner, I don’t know why one would not go more frequently.
In general, it takes 3 to 6 months to find oneself having enough clearance to be sure of being in posession of a stable permanent hair reduction. After that, one boldly goes forward towards permanent hair removal.