Hi all I hope the experts can help.
I started blend about 20 months ago for upper lip and brows. It’s a great distance to travel, and I go approx. every 2-3 weeks and my session is 30 minutes. I believe it’s been about 18 full hours in total. It just doesn’t seem like I’m getting anywhere. She’s removing 175-225 hairs each time. I get the little black dots a few days later, looks almost like pepper on my skin. I’m told that’s normal. Then it just seems like hair starts to reappear. I swear she’s removed one stray on my cheek atleast 12 times. I don’t pluck in between.
She says I’m making progress as the hairs are finer on my upper lip, but the brow hairs don’t look finer to me and the lip seems to need the most work each visit. As far as time, she says another year.
Where should I be after this much time? I am getting a little down as I thought perhaps I should be further along and was wondering if you thought this much time was normal for an upper lip and brows and where I should be.
Thank you in advance.
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The “dots” are not normal. That’s a sign that the hair is being broken off on the way out, i.e. the technique is poor.
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Your treatments seem a bit short for completing both of those areas. You should leave without any hair on the areas you’re treating every time.
I sounds like you need to switch electrologists. Actually, you should have done that months ago. The whole process shouldn’t have taken more than 12 months or so on these two relatively small areas. Before jumping into anything else, make sure to check out 3-4 electrologists and get sample treatments.
What she describes is not out of the ordinary for Blend treatments on the upper lip, especially with an older set up, and a circle lamp for visual aid.
It would be nice if she had someone who would at least clear out the entire upper lip on every session, so that at least, she would be seeing the reduction.
It is possible that this is the best she can get where she is, but it is not the best she could get in the nation.
20 months of treatment is normal? I don’t think you would agree with that. If that side effect she describes was a one time thing and she only had a month or two worth of treatments and was seeing results, I could have some doubts. But the way the story reads, it sounds like this electrologist does not know what they’re doing. These two areas don’t have THAT much hair to warrant almost 2 years of useless treatments.
I don’t think we can judge whether there are other potentially great electrologists in her area. She didn’t specify where she is, nor did she mention anything about trying out any other people before settling on this one. From what I can read here, it sounds like she went to one and has been listening to her expanations of how 2 years of treatments on small areas without much result is normal. It’s not.
I think you misunderstand.
This would be HIGHLY unusual with Dee, or myself, and a few others who I will spare the potential side effects of my praise. On the other hand, it is typical of what some people do. This is why we are always talking about how one needs to push the electrolysis provider to get you totally clear at least once every 6 weeks, as many just won’t press this point with the client. After all, the longer it takes, the more money the hair remover makes, IF the person continues to come.
At the risk of an analogy that will infuriate some people, it is kind of like the way we are told that there is a range of what is a woman’s normal hormonal stats, and yet, many women are getting increased hair growth and other complications even though their numbers are still yet in that range. It is obvious that for those women, their own personal range is lower than the standard. In the same way, the range of hair removal treatment is a wide one, and the outcomes and side effects are on just as wide a sliding scale.
So, to recap, yes, she could do better, but there are lots of people who are getting about the same as she is getting, and yet they do eventually finish. Am I advocating this? No, but when we talk about what is NORMAL in this business, that is quite a dangerous word to use. I like to speak of what is possible, and how one can maximize one’s results, based on what one has available to work with.
An upper lip has never taken 20 hours. Same for eyebrows. I agree that you will still get permanent hair removal, but what a cost.
Electrolysis care can be much better than this, even for the most challenging upper lip and eyebrow cases. I say this without seeing your skin and hair, but I have also worked on some of the most terrifying skin and hair structures and the time to completion was no longer than 18 months. By month 12-14 the worse was behind us and the rest of the time was quick cleanups with one or two thick hairs, with the rest being fine long hairs.