So at what age do you allow your girls

[stoppit]

Re: So at what age do you allow your girls

@redvelvet

A month ago I went for a chemical peel and my esthetician and I were talking about hair growth. And she said how plucking the hair…can sometimes stimulate blood flow to the surrounding pores/ares. And while the action may weaken and eventually deaden the root of the hair you’re plucking (to the point that it may grow either very fine or not at all)…it can lead to the growth of other hairs. I thought that was interesting. I know that the clients that go there to get electrolysis are advised not to rmove their hair from the roots when undergoing treatmen…however shaving/cutting is allowed. It’s interesting…because I was always under the impression that removing from the roots doesn’t have any adverse effects in terms of increased growth.

And yes, she did mention hormones and diet contributing to the hair growth and skin problems.

I think your aesthetician is confusing herself with half facts.

Waxing or any kind of root removal does not weaken the follicle. All these stories are purely anecdotal. You don’t hear reports from people who have done something to one arm (for example) and leave the other to judge the difference. In some areas, like the shins or eyebrows, many many years of root removal can build up enough scar tissue that hairs stop growing.

But yes, root removal does stimulate blood flow to the area. In hormonally sensitive areas (i.e. face) this can strengthen the follicle or stimulate dormant follicles. Thus this can cause the plucked hair to grow back stronger (thicker, darker) and/or hairs from the previously dormant follicles. I’m sure many of you will have experienced this on the chin and sideburns from waxing/threading.

This is why I am always recommending against root removal on the face and instead to go for electrolysis.

You don’t do root removal whilst having electrolysis for two main reasons. The first being that if you remove the hair, how can the electrologist treat it? The second is that if an electrologist has not completely destroyed a follicle in a particular treatment and only weakend it, it will produce a finer hair later (when its hair cycle comes around again). The second treatment of that particular follicle should destroy it for good. If you are doing root removal, you are just undoing that work by strengthening it again.