This is a picture of a hair follicle.
Shown is the root of the hair and the tiny capillaries that
feed the root which allows it to grow.
In electrolysis a tiny sterile probe is inserted into the
hair follicle. A current comes out the tip of the probe
which ultimately cuts off nourishment to the hair by cauterizing
those capillaries at the hair root, thus preventing a hair
from growing.
It takes a series of treatments to achieve permanency. A
hair can be treated in a follicle and not necessarily be
destroyed the first time. But it is weakened so that if
it re-grows it will be finer and lighter and come in more
slowly, if at all. And what happens is a gradual thinning
out process. As the hairs come in less and less, so the
client's need for treatments becomes less and less, until
the hairs don't come back at all and permanency is achieved.
* Hairs on mucus membranes
are never done. |