Hair Cycle

Hair grows in cycles. This cyclic nature of hair growth is what causes electrolysis to be a process. All the hair you have growing in an area does not all grow out at once; there are many follicles very close together and they take turns pushing out. Much of the time we think it is the same hair pushing out only a few days after being tweezed however this is incorrect. If a hair is tweezed, has electrolysis or sluffs off naturally, it takes that single follicle 3 months before it can produce another hair. For this reason, typically you will not see results for the first 3 months. This is because it will take 3 months to give one pulse to every hair you have growing in the area. That means if you are coming in every-two-weeks for a full clearing, you will have 6 appointments before you even begin to see results. At 3 months you will have less hair and the hair left will have already been damaged by the first pulse so it will be much finer in diameter and the growth will be much slower. It will take another 3 months to give another pulse to all the remaining follicles producing hair, and a 3rd pulse to all the remaining follicles will take another 3 months. Typically, we are getting rid of the bulk of the hair within the first 6 to 8 months if you have full clearings at each appointment every-two-weeks. Then you will go into maintenance where your appointments have begun to taper off, where you only come in maybe every-other-month, or so, until the hair stops growing altogether.  If you do not have the time in your schedule or your budget for full clearings every-two-weeks, we will work with you to set appointments that are within your time schedule and budget. Electrolysis is safe enough to have everyday if you desired, we just do not want you going beyond two weeks to be able to reach completion as quick as possible.